Day 1
09:00 - Conference Programme
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THURSDAY, 8 APRIL 2021
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09:00
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CHAIR’S WELCOME
Stephen Brown, Zone Development Lead, Sellafield Ltd
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09:10
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PLENARY SESSION 1 - REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
Terry Spall, President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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09:40
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WORKSHOP SESSION 1
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MANAGER? LEADER? – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? - CMI MANDATORY SESSION
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SOLVING PROBLEMS INNOVATIVELY
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11:10
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MORNING COFFEE BREAK
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11:30
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WORKSHOP SESSION 2
Select one of the following workshops.
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LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION – BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND GETTING YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS - CMI MANDATORY SESSION
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BARTER WITH THE BEST AND OTHER NEGOTIATION APPROACHES
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13:00
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LUNCH
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13:45
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WORKSHOP SESSION 3
Select one of the following workshops.
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HOW DO I LEAD WHEN I'M NOT THEIR MANAGER?
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GIVING FEEDBACK: HANDLING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
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15:15
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AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK
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15:30
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PLENARY SESSION 2 - MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING
Chris Rea, Managing Director, AES Engineering Ltd
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16:00
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INTERACTIVE PANEL QUESTION TIME
Moderator: Tim Podesta, Independent Consultant
Christopher Simpson, Managing Director, Simpson Associates
Terry Spall, President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Chris Rea, Managing Director, AES Engineering Ltd
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17:00
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END OF DAY ONE
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Day 2
09:00 - Conference Programme
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DAY 2
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FRIDAY, 9 APRIL 2021
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09:00
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CHAIR’S WELCOME
Joe Matthews, Senior Design Engineer, Sycamore Process Engineering Ltd
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09:10
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PLENARY SESSION 3
Mark Heath, Engineering Director, McLaren Applied
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09:40
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WORKSHOP SESSION 4
Select one of the following workshops.
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BARTER WITH THE BEST AND OTHER NEGOTIATION APPROACHES
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DISAGREEING WITHOUT A FIGHT: MINIMISING DESTRUCTIVE CONFLICT
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11:10
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MORNING COFFEE BREAK
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11:30
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WORKSHOP SESSION 5
Select one of the following workshops. Mandatory CMI workshops are highlighted.
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MANAGING MILLENNIALS AND DEALING WITH DINOSAURS
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COMMERCIAL SKILLS
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13:00
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END OF CONFERENCE
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CMI Mandatory Workshops:
Manager? Leader? What's the difference?
This workshop will provide you with a practical understanding of the roles and responsibilities of both managers and leaders and will enable you to understand when you need to lead and when you need to manage. Every role we take on, whether in our professional lives or even in our personal lives requires some management skills and some leadership skills. However, you cannot lead without followers. People will choose who they wish to follow and invariably they follow people who they trust, who inspire them and who act with integrity.
Leadership communication – building relationships and getting your message across
Leadership is largely about influence and in order to effectively influence you need strong communication skills. Developing a powerful and flexible communication style is a great addition to an engineer’s toolkit and is a fundamental skill for effective managers. This workshop will help you develop your communication skills in the short term as well as focusing on the importance of communication in leadership and management roles. Attending this workshop will help you to communicate more clearly, improving the way you interact with your colleagues.
Workshops:
Solving problems innovatively
Want some structured ways to create unstructured thinking (and therefore novel approaches & ideas)? Then this is for you. An intense, highly interactive workshop providing engineers (and those who work in an engineering environment), with a variety of creative tools & innovative processes guaranteed to raise their own effectiveness when problem solving and seeking new ideas.
The session demonstrates that everyone has creative potential by getting participants to try tools for generating & filtering options, developing the most appropriate and seeing examples of when best to use each tool. Participants will be able to use these skills in the workplace to make more effective, efficient and creative use of people’s time when working in teams to solve problems.
Barter with the best and other negotiation approaches
One of the keys to successful negotiation is to ensure that all parties are in agreement when the negotiation concludes. This session is an opportunity to learn some negotiating tools and techniques for a variety of workplace scenarios.
• Become an everyday negotiator
• Create your own climate of ‘negotiation’ awareness
• Plan and prepare for negotiation success
How do I lead when I'm not their manager?
Do you find yourself in a leadership position but without formal management authority? Perhaps you are responsible for delivering projects using contractors where traditional line management is less applicable? Perhaps you are the technical expert and prefer a technically focused career path – you still have to get things done through others but can’t tell people what to do? In any case, these scenarios represent complex business relationships and you need to be able to lead and influence those you work with.
Giving feedback: handling difficult conversations
No feedback no progress. That is true for individuals and companies. Doing a good job these days is not enough. You and everyone else in your organisation need to be seen as competent by others and to be open to suggestions & ideas they may provide on how you can improve the way you work. So why is it sometimes so difficult to convince others to embrace feedback? This vital activity can make the difference between a vibrant, productive and motivated workforce and one that is demoralised and often focusing on peripheral rather than core issues.
This workshop will provide you with the confidence in delivering feedback and build your knowledge and skills to both deliver and receive it with the help of some tools/frameworks.
Disagreeing without a fight: minimising destructive conflict
In a world where engineers are dependent on each other to get things done, disagreement is both inevitable and desirable. Different people have different opinions and perspectives and it's important to utilise these differences. Disagreements and conflict doesn't have to be negative, if handled correctly, it can be productive. This workshop will explore your conflict handling style and look at the tools and techniques you can use in order to get the best out of what can sometimes be seen as a bad situation.
Managing millennials and dealing with dinosaurs
Different generations require different styles of management and this is key in becoming a successful manager in today’s society. Both the baby boomers and millenials need to work within cohesive teams to achieve the best results. But how do you as their manger deal with their conflicting priorities?
Whilst it is true that each generation is a little different from those preceding, this is particularly marked for those born between 1980 and 2000. Growing up during this period, millenials were impacted dramatically by rapid technology change and the evolution of the internet. This means millennials have a significantly different outlook on many topics (not least work and what they expect from it) from other generations such as the baby boomers, and this needs to be understood and handled correctly for an effective working environment for all. This workshop will look at the perspective of different generations and the best ways to lead both generations effectively.
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CMI Mandatory Workshops:
Manager? Leader? What's the difference?
This workshop will provide you with a practical understanding of the roles and responsibilities of both managers and leaders and will enable you to understand when you need to lead and when you need to manage. Every role we take on, whether in our professional lives or even in our personal lives requires some management skills and some leadership skills. However, you cannot lead without followers. People will choose who they wish to follow and invariably they follow people who they trust, who inspire them and who act with integrity.
Leadership communication – building relationships and getting your message across
Leadership is largely about influence and in order to effectively influence you need strong communication skills. Developing a powerful and flexible communication style is a great addition to an engineer’s toolkit and is a fundamental skill for effective managers. This workshop will help you develop your communication skills in the short term as well as focusing on the importance of communication in leadership and management roles. Attending this workshop will help you to communicate more clearly, improving the way you interact with your colleagues.
Workshops:
Workshops:
Solving problems innovatively
Want some structured ways to create unstructured thinking (and therefore novel approaches & ideas)? Then this is for you. An intense, highly interactive workshop providing engineers (and those who work in an engineering environment), with a variety of creative tools & innovative processes guaranteed to raise their own effectiveness when problem solving and seeking new ideas.
The session demonstrates that everyone has creative potential by getting participants to try tools for generating & filtering options, developing the most appropriate and seeing examples of when best to use each tool. Participants will be able to use these skills in the workplace to make more effective, efficient and creative use of people’s time when working in teams to solve problems.
Barter with the best and other negotiation approaches
One of the keys to successful negotiation is to ensure that all parties are in agreement when the negotiation concludes. This session is an opportunity to learn some negotiating tools and techniques for a variety of workplace scenarios.
• Become an everyday negotiator
• Create your own climate of ‘negotiation’ awareness
• Plan and prepare for negotiation success
How do I lead when I'm not their manager?
Do you find yourself in a leadership position but without formal management authority? Perhaps you are responsible for delivering projects using contractors where traditional line management is less applicable? Perhaps you are the technical expert and prefer a technically focused career path – you still have to get things done through others but can’t tell people what to do? In any case, these scenarios represent complex business relationships and you need to be able to lead and influence those you work with.
Giving feedback: handling difficult conversations
No feedback no progress. That is true for individuals and companies. Doing a good job these days is not enough. You and everyone else in your organisation need to be seen as competent by others and to be open to suggestions & ideas they may provide on how you can improve the way you work. So why is it sometimes so difficult to convince others to embrace feedback? This vital activity can make the difference between a vibrant, productive and motivated workforce and one that is demoralised and often focusing on peripheral rather than core issues.
This workshop will provide you with the confidence in delivering feedback and build your knowledge and skills to both deliver and receive it with the help of some tools/frameworks.
Disagreeing without a fight: minimising destructive conflict
In a world where engineers are dependent on each other to get things done, disagreement is both inevitable and desirable. Different people have different opinions and perspectives and it's important to utilise these differences. Disagreements and conflict doesn't have to be negative, if handled correctly, it can be productive. This workshop will explore your conflict handling style and look at the tools and techniques you can use in order to get the best out of what can sometimes be seen as a bad situation.
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