Introduction

Technical expertise alone is no longer sufficient for professionals seeking to lead teams, manage projects, and influence organisational outcomes. Engineers and science-based professionals increasingly require strong management and leadership capabilities to translate technical excellence into sustained performance and career progression.

The Management & Leadership Skills Course is designed specifically for technically trained professionals, presenting leadership and management as structured, logical disciplines aligned with analytical thinking. The course explores how organisations function, how decisions are made, and how individuals can lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose. By approaching leadership as a practical and systematic capability, participants gain tools they can immediately apply within complex, fast-evolving professional environments.

Key focus areas include:

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Management & Leadership Skills training course, participants will be able to:

Training Methodology

The Management & Leadership Skills Course uses an interactive, instructor-led approach that encourages discussion, reflection, and applied learning. Participants explore practical scenarios and structured case discussions, enabling them to relate management and leadership concepts directly to their professional environments while reinforcing long-term capability development.

Management & Leadership Skills for Engineers

Who Should Attend?

This training course is ideal for professionals seeking to apply the Management & Leadership Skills Course principles within technical and scientific contexts, including:

  • Engineers transitioning into management roles
  • Science-based professionals with leadership responsibilities
  • Technical Team Leaders and Supervisors
  • Project and Operations Professionals
  • Emerging Managers from technical disciplines
  • Professionals preparing for broader leadership roles

Course Outline

Day 1

Broad based Appreciation of the Difference between Management and Leadership

  • Introduction
  • Perceptions of Management Science
  • Theory that Works in Practice
  • How Organisations Work
  • Identifying the Difference between a Manager and a Leader
  • Contemporary Management and Leadership Models
  • Business Strategy – Its Role and Deployment
  • Core Business Process and Value Chain
  • Scalability of Business Models
  • Altering Perspectives
  • Teams: Characteristics and Management
Day 2

About Organisations

  • The Importance of Understanding Organisations
  • Types of Organisations
  • Mechanisms for Succession
  • The Role and Significance of the Customer
  • Aldizes Life Cycle and Regeneration
  • Projects – Their Role and How Management and Leadership Challenges
  • Functioning and Non-functioning Organisations
  • Linking Competencies and Resourcing
  • Static and Dynamic Organisations
  • Emergence and Flow

Organisational Design & Organisation Development

  • Organisational Design and Organisational Development
  • Importance and Roles of Vision, Mission, Values and Goals
  • The Value of Shared Concepts
  • Resilience, Agility and Their Impact on Success
  • Management Methodologies in Common Use
  • Different Types of Organisation Structure
  • Emergence, Flow and Business Eco-cultures
  • Management Philosophy
  • Performance Management
  • Operating Rhythm

 

Day 3

About Self: As a Manager and Leader

  • Emerging Challenges for Managers & Leaders in the Digital Era
  • Self-perception and Resilience
  • Assessment Techniques
  • Recognizing the Unconscious Mind and the Inner Judge
  • Analyzing and Reconfiguring Self
  • NLP – an insight
  • Management Styles
  • Management – some useful models
  • Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors
  • Mindfulness
Day 4

Identification of Organisational Issues

  • Scientific Management
  • Contemporary Interpretation of Scientific Management
  • Assessment of Organisations
  • Application of People, Process & Technology
  • Process Analysis and Levering Effectiveness
  • Organisation Maturity
  • Process Efficiency – Measurement Techniques
  • Value Stream Mapping

Change & Transformation Management

  • Drivers for Change
  • As is Situation and Change Readiness
  • The to be Situation and Organisational Readiness
  • Mind-map Modelling
  • Tuckmans Team and Group Development Model
  • The Reality of Change
  • The Six Stages of Change

 

Day 5

Leadership

  • Review of Leadership and Its Emergence
  • Tolerance, Timing and Judgement
  • Strategic vs. Delivery
  • Relevance of EI / EQ
  • Problem Avoidance
  • Personal Branding
  • Leadership and Mentors
  • Gravitas
  • Reading People
  • Double Loop Learning
  • A Look Ahead – Data Analytics and Uncertainty
  • Personal Action / Development Plan

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FAQs

  The course focuses on developing practical management and leadership capabilities tailored to engineers and science-based professionals.  

  Yes, the Management & Leadership Skills Course is designed for those new to management responsibilities.  

 Absolutely. It links leadership concepts directly to technical, project-based, and operational contexts.  

  Yes, the course supports participants in establishing their own management and leadership style.  

  Yes, the Management & Leadership Skills Course addresses leadership agility in contemporary and future-focused organisations.  

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