Essential Management Skills 2022

Overview

What does it take to be a truly effective manager? Gain the skills and knowledge needed at the 2022 edition of Essential Management Skills!

Engineering managers need to offer more than just technical excellence. This three-day event will equip today’s engineers with the essential management skills required for success within line and project management roles. Attend this event to improve your ability to manage yourself, projects and teams. You can also take the opportunity to gain a Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership, awarded by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Join Essential Management Skills 2022 to:

• Hear from pioneers in engineering about their career journeys through our programme of plenary session speakers
• Develop the skills needed to be a successful engineering manager through our expert-led workshops
• Attend one of our industry site visits to see first-hand how a leading engineering firm operates
• Test your teamwork and leadership abilities within a business environment through our interactive Engineering Challenge
• Gain technical and management insights first-hand from experts in the field of engineering through our Question Time Panel
• Network with engineering leaders and your peers through our programme of evening social events

Chartered Management Institute's Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership

The Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership will help you supervise or manage a team to achieve clearly defined outcomes and provide you with a qualification as evidence of your knowledge. It will develop your basic knowledge by focusing on the development of specific management skills. This will also provide you with a year’s study membership with the Chartered Management Institute and access to thousands of online management and leadership resources.

*CMI Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership requires attendance of the following two workshops: Manager? Leader? – What’s the difference? and Leadership communication – building relationships and getting your message across. A 2,500 word assignment and online learning will also need to be completed in CMI's digital portal within 1 year of attending the conference.

Industry Site Visit – 30 March 2022

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Discover the best management processes to improve performance, observe how F1 engines are designed, manufactured, and tested, including presentations from the Chief Engineer.

Please note, attendee numbers are limited, and all visitors will be required to take a lateral flow test on arrival and wear safety shoes throughout their visit.

Booking multiple tickets (group discounts available), on behalf of someone else or need us to make a reasonable adjustment in order for you to attend this event? Email us

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Attending this event supports your Professional Development; if you're an IMechE Member, this can be tracked in the Career Developer section of your online account.

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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.

Commercial skills
Contribute to business profitability by understanding and applying basic commercial principles. This module will provide a understanding of the commercial world and how to deal with real issues including handling suppliers, demanding customers, as well as exploring opportunities to increase value and gain competitive advantage. Based on practical case-studies this is an opportunity to gain a foundation in understanding how engineering and commercial skills complement each other.

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