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Essential Leadership and Management Skills for Engineers
The best engineers are often highly effective managers and leaders. If you are ambitious and
aim to advance your career, obtaining these skills is crucial. Perhaps you've been promoted
to a management position because of your performance as a technical expert. If so, what you
now need is the new, complementary skills to survive and thrive in this brave new world.
Likewise, for small manufacturing businesses, strong inspirational leadership and effective
management is the surest way to get the very best out of your people, your assets and your
limited resources. This guide provides crystal clear advice in the following areas.
Leadership:
This section gives you the information, tools and examples to not only develop
your leadership potential, but inspire others and use leadership qualities to advance in your
chosen field.
People Management:
Working collaboratively with other engineers is critical to high per-
forming manufacturing teams. For engineers who find themselves leading teams or pro-
moted to head-up technical units, possessing the right people skills is frankly vital.
Networking:
Quite simply the quickest way to get on in your career. It involves connecting
with people, sharing ideas and seizing opportunities. Also tapping into others' knowledge
and experience is an invaluable way of solving technical problems.
Public Speaking:
A great skill engineers are rarely trained in. Learn how to be a self-as-
sured, fluent public speaker. Confidently address other employees in the workplace, repres-
ent the business externally or deliver a public presentation in or out of work.
Project Management:
Engineers commonly undertake work as part of project teams. Ob-
tain the benefits offered by a structured, organised way of working. Understand and apply
the key stages of formal project management. Gain the key skills employers' value.
Essential Leadership and Management Skills for Engineers
contains proven practical know-
ledge to be applied from day 1, in your current role. It's a no-nonsense manual written for
you if you want to realise your career ambitions by quickly learning these complimentary
skills.