Leadership

Lead with Impact: Leadership and Management Methodologies

Are you living up to your leadership potential? The way you lead can have a huge impact on your business, allowing you to meet and exceed your targets and inspire your team to do their best work. This personalized and practical workshop will show you how to leverage your strengths and create a blueprint for your success as a manager. You’ll discover your personal leadership style, learn the essentials of leadership and management theory, and then apply the four pillars of management (leading, organizing, controlling and planning) to transform your team and improve your company.

Time: Four workshops, 8–10 a.m. (must attend each workshop)

PDHs: 7 | CEUs: 0.7

Price: $995

Your course fee includes the Gallup Strengths Finder assessment, which you will take before the course. You must complete this assessment to access the full course material.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply the four pillars of management to your firm

• Develop a deeper understanding of your personal leadership style and potential pitfalls

• Learn best practices in leadership and management

• Create a plan of action to improve management and leadership in your sphere of influence

Who Should Attend

• Anyone who lives and works in environments where competing views occur (which means the session is open to anyone that is not living alone in a cave)

Associated Courses

• Lead with Impact: Leadership and Management Methodologies

• Taking Charge of Your Career Development

• Systems Thinking

Benefits

• Identify, understand and work with “triggers” to promote a growth mindset

• Create strategies to identify, appreciate and leverage competing views

• Work with “triggers” to create productive work environments and relationships

• Understand yourself and others to aid in navigating and understanding disparate views

Navigating and Understanding Competing Views

In all aspects of life, and especially in corporate life, there are triggers that push us into “fixed mindsets” that result in defensive and non-collaborative work environments. This session is designed to help identify and understand the sources of our competing views so that we can more effectively work collaboratively and productively with others.

Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

PDHs: 4 | CEUs: 0.4

Price: $695

A laptop is required for this class.

Learning Outcomes

• Consider cross cultural/global dimensions to promote effective communications

• Examine various world views of ethics to evaluate and appreciate actions and decisions of others

• Explore interacting dimensions of diversity, to understand our own motives and the motivations of others

Who Should Attend

• Engineers

• Supervisors/Managers/ Directors of engineers and/or engineering departments

• Production supervisors

• Customer service representatives

• Salespersons

• HR partners supporting engineering and/or IT business units

Associated Courses

• Lead with Impact: Leadership and Management Methodologies

• Navigating and Understanding Competing Views

• Systems Thinking Benefits

• Understand how to work with those who think differently (e.g. linear thinkers vs. creative thinkers)

• Appreciate how various instruments to assess styles as well as personal strengths and limits can be used to address perceptions and value of self-awareness

• Become aware of how styles impact interpersonal skills, reactions under stress, and can become barriers to professional performance and development

• Practice using guidelines, instruments, and tips to build stronger working relationships and focus on selecting key competencies for professional effectiveness, (take away workbook)

Taking Charge of Your Career Development

What does today hold for you? Is it what you planned for yourself? Most of us never plan our careers and let them take over and manage us. But it’s not too late to take charge and find your own direction. If you are one of the many people who long for change but can’t see a way forward this course is for you. During this interactive session, you will explore the ways to understand how to set your career direction, play to your strengths and shape your work life for maximum success. Become an effective communicator and learn how to develop, maintain, and realize tangible benefits from an individual development plan … one that allows you to proactively manage your career path from entry level to wherever your professional goals lead.

Time: 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

PDHs: 7 | CEUs: 0.7

Price: $995

A laptop is required for this class.

Learning Outcomes

• Define the engineering mindset and how engineering education creates a culture of disengagement

• Address issues that are non-technical in nature and often perceived as irrelevant to the problem-solving process, in order to move projects and plans forward

• Identify gaps in professional development

• Examine purpose, types and outcomes of various style/personality assessments.

• Build a development framework for individuals and leaders

• Put together an individual development plan using numerous options and resources

• Learn techniques to manage employees/colleagues, your own and subordinates

• How to assess and craft development plans

• Effectively organize, communicate, and implement development plans

Who Should Attend

• Small business owners

• General managers

• Supervisors

• Managers

• Any manager or leader who finds themselves overseeing HR with no background

Associated Courses

• Lead with Impact: Leadership and Management Methodologies

• Navigating and Understanding Competing Views

• Taking Charge of Your Career Development

• Systems Thinking

Benefits

• Basic understanding of most prevalent HR laws

• Learn new trends in the HR discipline

• Understand how to develop a strategic compensation model for employees

• Engage in best practices in management and employee engagement and development

Fundamentals of Human Resources

Although many organizations have human resource departments, non-HR managers must be familiar with the basics of human resource management and their own role with regard to managing human resources. Supervisors and managers typically have responsibilities related to all the HR functions: defining jobs, forecasting, training, interviewing new candidates, administering performance appraisals, recommend pay increases and promotions, etc. On a day-to-day basis, owners, supervisors and managers represent the company to their employees in myriad areas, so they play an important role in employee relations.

Time: Two workshops, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. (must attend each workshop)

PDHs: 8 | CEUs: 0.8

Price: $995

Learning Outcomes

• General knowledge of HR laws and trends

• Ability to develop a strategic compensation model to increase engagement

• Best practices in employee career development and training with limited resources

Who Should Attend

• Small business owners

• General managers

• Supervisors

• Managers

• Any manager or leader who finds themselves overseeing HR with no background

Associated Courses

• Fundamentals of Human Resources

• Lead with Impact: Leadership and Management Methodologies

• Navigating and Understanding Competing Views

• Taking Charge of Your Career Development Benefits

• Basic understanding of most prevalent HR laws

• Learn new trends in the HR discipline

• Understand how to develop a strategic compensation model for employees

• Engage in best practices in management and employee engagement and development

Systems Thinking

The business environment is becoming increasingly complex; so too are the decisions today’s business leaders are being asked to make. As a result, many decisions are made without a thorough knowledge of those complexities and without understanding their consequences. Too often, they fail to produce the desired results. Systems thinking can help leaders make better decisions. Systems thinking is based in the tenet of connection: nothing stands alone, it is always part of a system that influences how it behaves. To understand the true result of decisions, leaders must understand the connections and system in which the part exists.

Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

PDHs: 4 | CEUs: 0.4

Price: $675

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to use systems thinking to improve your decision making

• Identify how today’s decisions can impact and shape the future

• Break down problems so they are manageable

• Systems, systems thinking, and tenets defined

• Why we need systems thinking in business

• How systems behave

• Understanding systems structures and stability

• Counter-intuitive system behavior

• Using systems thinking to develop foresight

• How system structure and behavior influence the outcomes and consequences of your decisions

PEAK Seminars

PEAK Mini-Conference

Professional Engineers Advancing Knowledge (PEAK) education seminars are a collaborative knowledge exchange facilitated by MSOE with the goal of providing a cost-effective way for Professional Engineers (P.E.’s) to earn the professional development hours (PDHs) now required for maintaining P.E. licensure in Wisconsin. Offered three times a year, alternating between in-person and online, alumni and industry professionals gather for a day of learning and networking. Up to 8 PDHs can be earned in at this collaborative and convenient knowledge exchange.

Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.

PDHs: up to 8

Price: $595

Who Should Attend

• Sales engineers and technical sales professionals

• Individuals with a technical background and relevant work experience in sales

• Individuals who desire to get better at selling their ideas and influencing others

Benefits

• Build networking and prospecting confidence

• Discover new tools to identify customer needs

• Craft effective strategies to identify and develop business opportunities

• Learn about different sales approaches and customer acquisition strategies

• Practice discussion (presentation) styles and how to adapt to specific audiences

• Leverage sales enablement tools and AI to be more effective and efficient

• Reduce selling cycles, expand relationships and close more business

• Personalized feedback, MSOE best practice sales toolbox and proven techniques