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The Engineering Manager: Strategic Thinking M A N AG I N G PE O PLE Public Courses
Engaging Today’s Workforce
PD676
PD475
The ability to make sound decisions is essential for long-term personal
This program focuses on providing a toolbox of essential skills any and professional success. Strategic thinkers are able to distinguish
supervisor, manager, or team leader who needs to assist individuals between causation and correlation, emotion and intellect. They are
and teams in their quest to reach high levels of performance. The able to apply proven methods to evaluate risk and determine the best
course provides simple, direct solutions to the most common challenges choice for action.
managers encounter, such as, how to motivate others, when and how
to coach, and dealing with non-performance. The most useful concepts In this one-day course you will be presented with both standard tools
in the behavioral sciences have been distilled into a basic approach to (e.g., SWOT) and innovative approaches from game theory. You will
managing people and teams. In addition, special emphasis is placed on learn how to discern fallacious reasoning traps as well as ways to
the changing nature of today’s workforce. counter them. In addition, you will practice using a powerful model to
construct and deliver a winning argument.
You Will Learn To
You Will Learn To
• Explain how to improve team performance and commitment
• Encourage employee initiative and avoid grievances, complaints and • Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
• Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in
legal problems
• Increase your communication and leadership skills your work group
• Motivate the under-achiever and get outstanding team performance • Apply strategic models that can be used immediately
• Mediate disputes between employees • Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic idea
• Develop a personal plan for success • Describe and apply strategic and tactical thinking, paradigms, risk,
Who Should A end sand judgment in all aspects of your work
• Use strategic thinking to add value to your organization
Current and aspiring supervisors, managers, team leaders and technical • Identify one’s own thinking style and how to improve individual and
professionals who manage people or departments and seek a solid
foundation in management skills and techniques group functioning
• Explain how to apply the cost/benefit of risk
Instructor Gary Dichtenberg
2 Days, 1.5 CEUs, 15 PDHs Who Should A end
Member $1,450 / List Price $1,550
Managers, supervisors and team leaders who need to improve their
Save up to $450 by enrolling in PD685, a combo course consisting of decision-making skills and enhance their strategic outlook
this course (PD475) and PD676 “Strategic Thinking.”
Instructor Gary Dichtenberg
1 Day, 0.8 CEUs, 8 PDHs
Member $795 / List Price $895
Save up to $450 by enrolling in PD685, a combo course consisting
of this course (PD676) and PD475 “The Engineering Manager:
Engaging Today’s Workforce.”
Take This Combo Course and Save Up to $450!
The Engineering Manager: Engaging Today’s Workforce and
Strategic Thinking Combo Course
PD685
This is a combo course consisting of PD475, “The Engineering Manager: Engaging Today’s Workforce” and PD676, “Strategic Thinking.” If you opt
to take this combination course you could SAVE UP TO $450.
Instructor Gary Dichtenberg 3 Days, 2.3 CEUs, 23 PDHs Member $1,895 / List Price $1,995
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