INTRODUCTION
Management and Leadership skills make the vital difference to successfully delivering technical excellence and creating opportunities for career growth. This much overlooked aspect in the training and development of science based professionals rapidly becomes an essential career differentiator – the skills to engage interest, manage efficiently, promote concepts and inspire others can be acquired and, with practice, deployed to considerable advantage.
This GLOMACS training programme is specially designed by an engineer for science based professionals – it examines the typical issues and concerns facing technical professionals from a management and leadership perspective – developing an understanding of the root causes and exploring practical solutions.
This GLOMACS programme, which treats the fundamentals of these subjects from a logical and structured basis, an approach which should readily appeal to science based graduates, permitting the subject to be understood as a “management science.” The teaching approach is free from buzz words, psychobabble and management gimmicks which should enable the delegates to lever a range of powerful concepts and principles to unexpected advantage.
Objectives
This GLOMACS training course is intended to provide the professional with a robust foundation to understand management and leadership techniques in a manner which is engaging and relevant to their career advancement. This should enable the delegates to:
- Gain a logical and straightforward understanding of management science – which has direct practical application in the workplace
- Acquire a relevant portfolio of techniques which will enable delegates readily consolidate grow their management and leadership skills
- Establish their management and leadership style and build their own personal development models
Training Methodology
The training methodology is highly participative – it will be instructor led with delegates encouraged to discuss the various principles in the context of their own work environment (without being specific). There will be scenarios and case studies to promote interaction and reinforce learning.
Organisational Impact
The development of managers and leaders such that they can work in a logical and confident manner can have a transformational impact on organisations:
- Realising the role and purpose strategy and how to deploy it with power and consistency with the organisations goals
- Logical basis for making decisions based on a sound understanding of organisational theory
- Ability to lever the power of process
- Ability to manage and lead with the agility needed in contemporary and future digitally driven environments
Personal Impact
Professionals with a practical grasp of management science will have the potential to make a step change in career development – this GLOMACS training course offers the opportunity to:
- Gain insights to organisational strategy and appreciate its role and benefits, and how to deliver with power and effectiveness
- To understand the logic behind organisation structure any how to deliver results as a manager and leader
- Gain an appreciation of the psychology of communication and how to interact with senior management, peers and your team
- Build an understanding of logic based decision making and how to deploy these skills with effect
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This GLOMACS training programme is intended for science and technology based professionals in disciplines. It is appropriate at all career levels where there is a desire or need to enhance management and leadership skills – it will be suitable for:
- Mid-career where these skills and techniques are essential for professional growth and
- Senior management who may want to review their management and leadership skills through this solid and logical foundation
- Early career graduates as a foundation
This GLOMACS training course is also suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those with the following disciplines:
- Engineering
- IT
- Earth Science
- Pharmacy