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Foundations of Technical Leadership
Technical Team Leadership
Effective Technical Presentation Skills

FOUNDATIONS OF TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
The challenge engineers and scientists face is the need to blend creativity with an objective, uncompromising approach to science and technology. Sales, Manufacturing, your customers, and vendors all have opinions about the timing and outcome of the products and services you deliver. How do you manage the limits of your technology and the demands of your business? What does it take to be successful in technology, grow your career, and navigate the needs of business?

In Foundations of Technical Leadership, participants examine the cultural influences and bottom-line motivations of the business environment that influence technology outcomes.

Experienced professionals as well as those just entering the workforce have benefited from this course.

You will learn:

To analyze the intersection of technology, business, and technical leadership
To apply the science of problem solving to technology and business for productivity
To take full advantage of learning styles to enhance communication and problem solving
To leverage diversity in business and technology for increased speed and productivity
To effectively manage your customers

Suggested Approach With Flexibility For Your Unique Needs

Foundations of Technical Leadership is a 3-day course, and it is strongly recommended that you take the course all at one time. However, recognizing that each group has its unique strengths and challenges, we have designed Foundations of Technical Leadership so that it can be broken into separate topics and taken in ½- or 1-day modules.

What is Included

For each participant, spiral-bound copies of course materials with room to take notes
Learning Styles/Problem Solving Inventory for each participant
Up to four hours of customization to meet your unique business needs and objectives, using either generic business examples or your specific technical examples
Three months Premium Membership to ProjectConnections.com, an online resource for help in applying workshop principals to the work environment

Who Should Attend

Function or title: team members, team leads, product development, front line manages through director, and all executives who are tasked with developing their technical organizations’ business, people and implementation skills.

For more information, contact us at Info@TrainingforTechies.com

TECHNICAL TEAM LEADERSHIP
The diverse set of skills that a team provides is often the only way to accomplish complex business objectives. Technical teams often face unique challenges, including uneven expertise, different technical disciplines and differing agendas. Most challenging, of course, are cross-functional assignments with people who don’t understand the technology or its limitations and often have an entirely different concept of the team’s goal.

In Technical Team Leadership, participants learn to leverage the motivations and styles of their fellow team members through case studies, interactive exchanges, and real-life examples from the students’ own workplace. Participants will successfully draw together team resources to effectively accomplish the desired bottom-line results.

You Will Learn:

How teams reach their highest performance potential
How to make diversity an asset
How to gain alignment and buy-in
How to provide team leadership from a technical perspective
How to lead a team (versus manage a project)

What is Included

For each participant, spiral-bound copies of course materials with room to take notes
Learning Styles Inventory for each participant
Up to four hours of customization to meet your unique business needs and objectives, using either generic business examples or your specific technical examples
Three months Premium Membership to ProjectConnections.com, an online resource for help in applying workshop principals to the work environment

Who Should Attend

Function or title: team members, team leads, product development, front line manages through director.

For more information, contact us at Info@TrainingforTechies.com

EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL PRESENTATION SKILLS
Even the most brilliant idea doesn’t always sell itself. Presenting technical information can be a challenge. Sometimes the challenge of getting your ideas across can be finding a way to explain complex concepts in a few slides. Other times the challenge may be projecting confidence in front of a customer who is irate about the cost of a technical problem. Still other times, it is understanding what the bottom line is in a technical review before your team sponsor.

Effective Technical Presentation Skills is designed by scientists and engineers who know how to present data in coherent and meaningful ways under many conditions to multiple audiences. This class covers a variety of common presentation problems such as providing too much data, the wrong data, presentations that miss the point, presentations that are boring or non-interactive or do not address the needs of your audience.

You Will Learn:

How to get your point across to different audiences
How to improve customer perception
How to manage difficult audiences
How to adapt your presentation in the moment
How to design and give presentations that support effective decision making
How to design a framework for creating and refining more effective presentations

What is Included

For each participant, spiral-bound copies of course materials with room to take notes
One-on-one presentation and technical slide review coaching
Live video session tape
Four hours of customization to meet your unique business needs and objectives
Three months Premium Membership to ProjectConnections.com

Who Should Attend:

Technical team members and technical team leads

For more information, contact us at Info@TrainingforTechies.com