Engineering Professional Programs

Managers FIGHT fires, leaders LIGHT fires.

Do you want to provide the most effective leadership possible for your team? This workshop will give you the tools you need and show you how to:

Become the leader who motivates and lights creative fires for your team

Go beyond the mechanics of scheduling, budgeting and monitoring to inspire your team

Develop teams that are enthusiastic, effective and successful

Create more effective relationships with your team members and customers

Increase your own level of personal and professional fulfillment

This workshop recognizes that when project teams perform above expectations, it is often due to powerful people skills and strong team leadership. In a way that no other training does, this workshop integrates interpersonal skills and psychological principles into a practical, person-centered, results-driven guide for project leadership. The practical concepts covered in this workshop are reinforced by examples of real-world project situations, interactive exercises and checklists that you can use to quickly recall and apply key leadership and management concepts to your projects.

What You Will Learn

Interactive exercises and presentations by the instructor will help you improve your leadership skills and learn:

Key leadership characteristics and how your skills are viewed by others

Where and how to focus your efforts to improve your leadership skills

How leaders balance the content, procedural and relationship needs of project teams and customers

Your individual style preference for communicating, taking in information, making decisions and interacting with others by completing the Myers Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI)

How your individual style relates to leadership characteristics

How an understanding of your style preferences helps you improve your leadership skills

Keys to creating a motivating environment

How style differences or similarities can lead to conflict

How to effectively delegate in order to motivate your team, accomplish project tasks and free up your time

How to provide effective feedback and coaching

At the conclusion of the workshop you will develop an individual action plan to implement what you have learned to strengthen your leadership skills.

Myers Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI)

You will complete the Myers Briggs Type Instrument and learn how to use awareness of style preferences to reinforce your existing leadership strengths and improve your less-developed leadership skills.

Leadership Assessment tool

Because self-awareness is important to a leader, the workshop will give you an optional Leadership Assessment Tool that you can use after the workshop to compare your self-assessment of your leadership skills with the perceptions of others. This on-line tool will provide an effective way to receive anonymous feedback about how your leadership skills are perceived by your peers, direct reports and manager. A report comparing your perceptions with your observers' perceptions will be prepared for you (confidentiality will be preserved). Scored and compiled by the instructor, the report will assist you in determining where to focus your efforts to strengthen your leadership skills.

Recommended Text

Gordon Culp and Anne Smith’s book, The Lead Dog Has The Best View: Leading Your Project Team to Success, has just been released. This book examines what it takes to make the crucial transition from project manager to project leader. It is recommended for attendees of this course or anyone interested in taking their leadership skills to a new level. It may be purchased from ASCE Press for $45. To order or see an abstract, visit their site.

Faculty

Gordon Culp, P.E., has 40 years of experience in leading projects with a range of a few thousand to millions of dollars in scope. He has a master's degree in applied psychology in addition to his civil engineering degrees and he has many years of experience managing organizations ranging in size from 50 to 500 staff. He and Anne Smith, of Smith Culp Consulting, are the coauthors of Managing People (Including Yourself) for Project Success (John Wiley, publisher) and The Lead Dog Has the Best View: Leading Your Teams to Project Success (in print, ASCE Press) as well as numerous papers on management and leadership. He has conducted workshops for clients throughout the United States.

What Is Included

Fee includes course notes, refreshment breaks and lunch both days.

Continuing Education Units

Course participants will earn 1.4 CEUs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.