Interpersonal communication, management and leadership skills for engineers and engineering managers
As your career moves from a technical professional role to that of a Team Leader, Supervisor, Program Manager, Director and beyond, your success is determined by how well you step up to the new, different, and often overwhelming challenges placed before you. Those new challenges are not technical but managerial. read more …
Often you can get promoted because you do your individual technical tasks well and the assumption is that “if you can do your engineering/technical job well you can obviously manage other engineers doing the same or similar jobs.” Right? Often this assumption is completely wrong! It’s a myth. In fact, there are plenty of myths out there regarding what you have to do in order to successfully transition from technical professional to technical manager.
In this 2-CD set (the two files below) Steven Cerri will expose the five major myths that are often used to rationalize an engineer’s promotion to manager and show why they do not work and why the are not true. His will then replace those myths with four tools that will clearly define your success as a technical manager and show you why this new approach to the selection and preparation of new managers works so well and has a much higher success rate. He’ll also include a plan for making your transition to management. These files will provide you with a whole new way of thinking about your career and your transitions to management.