dk Engineering Management & Leadership Training Program 

Developing Effective Communication & Collaboration Skills for Engineering Professionals (1 PDH)
Wednesday, October 2nd at 2:30 pm EST

If you ask anyone how to be a successful engineer or a top engineering manager, they would tell you that you would need good communication skills. However, they will rarely tell you how to develop them. In this session, you will learn practical strategies that can be used on a daily basis to incrementally improve your communication skills and subsequently your ability to communicate with others. Implementing these strategies will put you on the fast track to becoming a top engineering manager because you will be in the small percentage of engineering professionals who can communicate effectively on a regular basis.

If you follow the strategies provided in this session, this one session alone can have a massively positive impact on your engineering career and life.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Communicate effectively with team members,
• Say things in a way that will help you get the responses you are seeking,
• Listen more effectively (the key to communication), 
• Be responsive so people want to communicate with you, and
• Apply strategies to effectively collaborate with your team members.

Improving Productivity and Maximizing Billability for Engineering
Professionals(1 PDH) – Tuesday, December 3nd at 2:30 pm EST

It is becoming nearly impossible in today’s world to focus intently on any one thing, and therefore, the professionals that can do that will be at the top of their industry. The ability to be an effective engineering manager without the ability to focus and be productive is not realistic. As an engineering manager, you will be pulled in many different directions, and therefore you will need to learn how to handle all of the distractions and correspondence that you need to, but still allow time for intensive focus on things that will drive the most success for you and your organization.

In this session, you will be given a blueprint for increasing your productivity on a day to day basis by doing things like task batching, developing MITs (most important tasks), and learning how to recognize high leverage tasks. If you can’t be a productive engineering professional and focus on the right tasks, you will not be an effective engineering manager; but if you can, you will be way ahead of the game.

In this session, you will: 

• Apply the 80/20 principle to your career and personal life,
• Create an effective email processing system to keep you organized,
• Use time management tools to change the way you approach your days,
• Apply techniques that will increase your focus throughout the day, and
• Learn specific strategies for maximizing billability.