What you'll learn:
- Identify what makes working with engineers unique
- Communicate with engineers with greater influence and impact
- Navigate common communication challenges with engineers
- Support engineers in managing their time and productivity
- Help engineers avoid going down "rabbit holes"
- Recognize the relationship between perfectionism and procrastination
- Give effective feedback to engineers -- and solicit helpful feedback from them
- Delegate work that you may or may not fully understand
- Create a motivating environment for engineers
- Get the most out of your 1:1 meetings
- Have useful career coaching conversations
- Understand how engineers use project management
- Encourage issue escalation by creating a safe environment
Collaborating with engineers is essential for successful project outcomes across industries.
For non-engineers, however, working with their highly technical engineering colleagues can sometimes feel like they're speaking a different language. That can pose challenges to building a climate of trust, partnering across functions, managing projects and people, navigating career conversations, delegating, and much more.
This course will offer you new mindsets, skills, and language to partner more collaboratively with engineers, fostering productive and efficient collaboration.
What makes this course unique? It is taught by husband and wife authors and executive coaches, Michael Riegel (an engineer) and Deborah Grayson Riegel (a non-engineer) who work with both technical and non-technical professionals.
They bring their different styles, approaches, and methods for successful collaboration -- in work ANDin life -- to this engaging, insightful course.
If you're looking for a dry, boring course, keep looking. But if you're looking for a tactical, practical course taught with humor and heart, this is it!
In this course, you will:
Develop effective communication skills to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical professionals.
Cultivate a collaborative mindset and foster a positive working relationship with engineers.
Learn specific language and strategies for managing conflicts and resolving issues that may arise during collaborative projects.
Enhance problem-solving abilities by leveraging the expertise and perspectives of engineers.
Improve time management and productivity with engineers (who often want everything to be perfect)
Delegate effectively, even when you don't understand the technical details of a task or project
Give helpful feedback to engineers, presented in a way that they will understand and can take action on
Maximize the impact of your 1:1 meetings
Learn the project management basics that your engineers probably know intuitively
Encourage issue escalation so that problems get addressed early
...and much more!
Through videos, demonstrations, handouts, and supplemental readings, you''ll walk away from this course with a better understanding of what motivates, inspires, and encourages engineers to take action.
We hope you'll join us!
Michael Riegel, MBA, ACC, PMP
Deborah Grayson Riegel, MSW, PCC
