Leading The Team
COURSE OVERVIEW
Leading The Team
The ability to lead and inspire others to achieve goals and work as a cohesive unit is vital to any individual who manages a team or has responsibility for the performance of others.
Our Leading the Team programmes are designed to meet the needs of any engineer with, or aspiring to, people management responsibilities.
By blending the necessary interpersonal skills with proven management tools and techniques, engineers can meet the complex challenge of being a leader in an engineering environment.
Whether managing people and projects, or operating as a supervisor, team leader or senior team leader; whether leading a small team on-site or a large team over international borders remotely, the right training can lead to almost instant results and improved business outcomes.
IMechE
Course Catalogue 2019/20
MENTORING FOR MPDS
Receive an overview of mentoring a graduate through our Monitored Professional Development Scheme.
Course description:
We encourage all existing mentors working with MPDS to attend one of these regional seminars so they can develop their awareness, reinforce their understanding of the role and update their mentoring skills.
The seminars are a great networking event for mentors, HR and training staff alike, providing an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas and to develop best practice. The syndicate work involved will help you put these ideas into action in the workplace.
Workshop objectives:
- Membership requirements
- Classes of membership
- The Institution and profile of a professional engineer
- Benefits of being recognised as an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer
- EC Standard for Professional Engineering
- Competence (UK-SPEC)
- Preparing for company accreditation
- MPDS: what it is and how it works
- Roles and responsibilities of a mentor
- Becoming a Member outside MPDS
- The Member application and the Professional Review Interview
- Continuing professional development
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
1 day workshop
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: £250 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
MENTORING SKILLS
Learn how to build successful mentor and mentee relationships.
Course description:
Mentor programmes provide an effective platform for knowledge transfer and can be the perfect vehicle for giving new engineers the opportunity to learn from the experience of their senior colleagues. Mentors and mentees jointly take the lead in proactively driving the relationship as a key contributor to their engineering journey.
Providing support for mentors to establish and develop the key skills required of a successful mentor, this programme includes how to manage the relationship and ensure that mentees are able to progress, grow their capability and drive their career.
Workshop objectives:
- Understand what mentoring is, how it differs from other management interventions and the value it brings to the mentor, the mentee and the organisation
- The importance of following a structured mentoring process and the value this can bring to the mentoring relationship
- Understand the fundamentals of a successful mentoring relationship
- The role of the mentor in the mentoring process and the skills needed to fulfil this role effectively
- The role of the mentee in the mentoring process and the skills needed to fulfil this role effectively
- Reflect on your mentoring style and consider any areas for improvement
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
1 day workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: C, D & E.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £499 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £599 + VAT
Joint Discount: Attend Mentoring Skills and Mentoring for MPDS for £649 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
CMI Level 3 certificate in first line management.
About the programme:
This has been designed to offer a flexible management programme for developing engineering managers. As a new or aspiring line manager, with the Fundamentals of engineering management programme you have the opportunity to choose to attend the training programme only, or undertake the CMI Level 3 qualification. Attend this programme to boost your confidence in stepping up to your first line management role. You can choose to attend the modules only, or work towards the CMI qualification.
What does the qualification route entail?
If you choose to attend the qualification route you’ll be studying towards the CMI Level 3 certificate in first line management. Upon completion of the training, you’ll be required to complete assignments in two modules to demonstrate that you have understood and can apply the key concepts. The number of assignments you’ll undertake depends on your starting point as exemptions exist for delegates registered with the Engineering Council.
How will the Institution support my qualification?
As well as attending training programmes led by experts in their field, you will receive:
- CMI membership for the duration of your studies (up to 3 years)
- Access to thousands of online management resources
- Access to assessment webinars led by the course tutors
- Programme management to support your learning journey
Target Audience
This programme is designed for new and aspiring managers. Typical delegates have undertaken their first line management role in the last 12 months or are seeking formal management training to support their development.
Modules and learning paths
This programme requires attendees to select an appropriate learning pathway. Delegates who are professionally registered with the Engineering Council receive exemptions against some modules.
Which modules should I attend?
If you want to study for the CMI Level 3 certificate in first line management, you’ll need to undertake an assessment for the Performance Management module and one other module of your choice. You must attend both mandatory modules and at least one optional module.
New engineering manager, 2 days – Mandatory: This course explores the challenges that line managers face. You’ll be challenged to consider how you set objectives, delegate and motivate your team.
Performance management and appraisal skills, 1 day or virtual – Mandatory: This course explores how you get the best out of your team. You’ll be covering appraisals, conflict and objective setting.
Communication & influencing, 2 days – Optional: This course will help you communicate with your team. You’ll learn how to work with difficult individuals and tailor your communication to the recipient.
Applying ethical principles, 1 day – Optional: This module has been designed to explore the ethical issues engineers face every day and increase your ability to deal with moral complexity.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Pricing
Pricing varies depending on your module selection and whether you want to study for the qualification or attend training only. Contact us for a customised quote based on your selection. EngTech students need to undertake one assessment, excluding New Engineering Manager.
Attendance only: From £1,600
CMI Level 3 Certificate: From £1,995
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)ext...
NEW ENGINEERING MANAGER
Managerial excellence for first time and aspiring managers.
Course description:
Our most popular training programme has been specifically designed for engineers who take up responsibility for managing people for the first time.
Thanks to a comprehensive toolbox of leadership and management tools, this interactive and intensive course is the foundation of your future career in management.
Find practical solutions to the most common problems managers face such as: how to motivate people, how to build a successful team, and how to engage your team in departmental goals. This course provides you with essential knowledge for taking the step from being a technical expert to a manager.
Workshop objectives:
- Set, monitor and achieve SMART goals for yourself and your team
- Motivate all the members of your team to work towards the team goals
- Delegate appropriately and effectively
- Use performance management to get the best out of everyone
- Take appropriate steps to deal with poor performance
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
2 day workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: C, D and E.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £995 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £1,215 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND APPRAISAL SKILLS
Managing the performance of individuals and teams is a critical management activity.
Course description:
Organisations need to get the most value from their resources so it’s up to line managers to ensure they are delivering maximum value from the people in their teams and departments.
This programme is designed for new line managers seeking to understand the performance management and appraisal process and for existing managers and human resource professionals as a refresher and skills builder. Within the programme you will be introduced to best practice performance management tools, techniques and templates for use within your organisation.
Workshop objectives:
- Understand the purpose and benefits of appraisals and performance reviews
- Avoid the common pitfalls when handling performance reviews
- Plan and prepare for effective performance management
- Demonstrate and practise the key skills for an interactive discussion including listening, questioning and providing feedback
- Tackle performance issues effectively and confidently
- Learn how to set objectives in order to develop those who are both high and low performers
What is virtual delivery?
Attending the virtual sessions for this course means you will undertake a series of group and individual modules held online. You will need to undertake self guided study but you are not required to be physically present to complete this module.
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
1 day workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: C and D.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £499 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £599 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
PATHWAY TO LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
CMI Level 5 qualification in leadership & management.
Course description:
A comprehensive and flexible management programme, this CMI pathway has been designed for developing engineering managers. By offering a range of modules, delegates can choose the most suitable learning path around their workload and commitments.
The CMI programme has been developed to consider managers’ varying experience and help them progress their level of profession registration. You can choose to attend the modules only, or work towards the full CMI qualification. Upon achievement of the qualification, you’ll be able to apply to become a Chartered Manager with the CMI.
What does the qualification route entail?
If you choose to attend the qualification, you’ll be studying towards the CMI Level 5 Diploma in leadership & management. Upon completion of the required modules, you will be required to complete assignments to demonstrate that you have understood and can apply the key concepts. The number of assignments you will undertake depends on your entry point as exemptions exist for delegates registered with the Engineering Council.
How will the Institution support my qualification?
As well as attending training programmes led by experts in their field, you will receive:
- CMI membership for the duration of your studies (up to 3 years)
- Access to thousands of online management resources
- Access to assessment webinars led by the course tutors
- Programme management to support your learning journey
Target Audience
This programme is designed for managers with experience of managing teams, individuals and resources. Typical delegates have had a performance management role for two years and are seeking to develop their leadership capability with a recognised qualification.
CMI modules and learning paths
This programme requires attendees to select an appropriate learning pathway. Delegates who are professionally registered with the Engineering Council receive exemptions against some modules and can attend a fast track programme.
Which module should I attend?
CEng – All mandatory and 1 optional module
IEng – All mandatory and 2 optional modules
All other managers – All modules
Senior engineering manager, 2 days: This course looks at the personal resources that managers and leaders have available to them and how to make the best of them. You’ll be covering change, strategy, motivation and conflict.
Mandatory
Optional
Mandatory
Performance management, 1 day: This course explores how you get the best out of your team. You’ll be covering appraisals, conflict and objective setting.
Mandatory
Mandatory
Mandatory
Financial management, 2 days: This module will help you understand the financial information that managers use. You’ll be introduced to management and financial accounting and learn how to make financial decisions.
Optional
Mandatory
Mandatory
Leadership practice, Virtual: This module will examine the relationship between leadership and management and how a manager’s style can influence the team’s commitment. This module is delivered virtually using a combination of webinars and coaching.
Optional
Optional
Mandatory
Operational risk management, 2 days: This course will explore your approach to the identification and mitigation of risk. You’ll cover the techniques used in managing a risk response.
Optional
Optional
Mandatory
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Pricing
Pricing varies depending on your module selection and whether you want to study for the qualification or learning only. Contact us for a customised quote based on your selection.
Attendance only:
CEng: From £2,000; IEng: From £2,000; Not registered: From £2,000
CMI Level 5 Diploma:
CEng: From £2,295; IEng: From £2,895; Not registered: From £3,995
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER
Develop essential skills to be a successful strategic leader.
Course description:
Aimed at managers who set the strategic direction for their teams. Participants on this course are typically engineers or other technical professionals who have experience in a man-management role and now want to take their skills to the next level as a business leader.
This course looks at the resources managers and leaders have and how to make the best use of them. The focus of the course is on how to lead a department or team where you are not able to have close contact with everyone on a daily basis, either because the team is too large or too remote.
Workshop objectives:
- Set the strategy for your team, to contribute fully to your company’s vision and mission
- Motivate, manage and communicate with your team to engage them fully in the company’s goals
- Successfully manage and implement change programmes which will become embedded in normal business practice
- See when conflict is occurring and manage it effectively
- Manage 360°- not only your team, but also your manager, your peers and most importantly yourself, in order to operate consistently at personal peak performance
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
2 day workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: B, C, D and E.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £995 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £1,215 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT
In a world of increasing uncertainty the importance of risk management has grown exponentially.
Course description:
Risks to companies are no longer limited to just those that are created by competitors or the odd natural disaster, but from all aspects of the internal and external working environment, including such considerations as cyber space crime and terrorism.
Managers need to take account of these new and growing areas of risk and organisations are looking for engineers who have a good multi-disciplinary approach and understanding of this specialist area. This programme provides a broad multi-disciplinary grounding in risk identification, assessment and management and the links with disaster recovery and business continuity.
Workshop objectives:
- Understand the many and varied aspects of risk as applicable to a wide range of organisations
- Rank and manage risk in alignment with a specific and predetermined ‘risk appetite’
- Identify, select and use appropriate methodologies for the evaluation, and treatment of risk
- Understand and articulate the key principles of disaster recovery
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
2 day workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: A, B, C, D & E.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £995 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £1,215 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Making a success of remote management and working with other cultures.
Course description:
It is increasingly common for managers to work internationally and across cultures. This presents a set of unique challenges and managers need an awareness of how best to influence individuals and teams whilst maintaining and developing relationships.
This two-day programme will provide you with practical tools and techniques to improve your interaction when you are working with or leading international teams. The course will also introduce you to the barriers that you might face when working across cultures and how you can prepare yourself and your team.
Workshop objectives:
- Appreciate the role of culture and its effect on people and organisations
- Develop skills for more effective cross cultural communication
- Understand your own influencing style through using the Institution’s ‘Influencing Styles
- Diagnostic’, and how you can adapt your style to improve your ability to influence others
- Identify the principles of best practice remote team working
- Be able to leverage a number of tools to lead higher performance in remote teams
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
2 days workshop
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: C and D.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £995 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £1,215 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)
LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
Within organisations, leaders who are effective need to demonstrate trust and be capable of making sure the vision of the organisation is clearly understood by all employees.
Course description:
Together with the responsibility for setting direction there is the need for organising workloads /outputs and of course motivating and inspiring teams and individuals.
This virtual programme is a fantastic opportunity to explore some of the theories and experiences of others. Delegates will consider ‘real life’ examples and apply these to their current work environment or an experience they have had previously.
Workshop objectives:
- Understand the links and differences between management and leadership
- Understand how personal values and organisation values can affect each other
- Identify and understand leadership styles that may be applicable when achieving organisational values.
- Consider what contribution leaders make when creating the organisational vision and communicating it to others.
- Understand how empowerment, trust and ethical leadership impact on an organisation and its employees
- Explore how personal energy, beliefs and positive commitment can impact on leadership styles.
- Understand how different leadership styles can have an impact on achieving organisational objectives.
What is virtual delivery?
Attending the virtual sessions for this course means you will undertake a series of group and individual modules held online. You will need to undertake self guided study but you are not required to be physically present to complete this module.
Target Audience
This programme is suitable for managers and team leaders.
Type
Virtual
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies
This course has been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC. Attendance at this course may contribute to your portfolio of competence to demonstrate Initial Professional Development (IPD): a key component of the requirement for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer.
UK-SPEC Core Competence: It has been mapped against competencies: C, D & E.
Enrol in this session
Threshold: Minimum 15, Maximum 30
Course Location: Ghana
Course Fee: IMechE Member – £499 + VAT | Non-IMechE Member – £599 + VAT
Registration: Rolling (Open Enrolment)