Do you want to professionally articulate your ideas to your team and management? Build great work relationship with your customer? Organize efficient teamwork? Understand how to motivate and inspire people? Become a pragmatic, well-respected technical lead, architect, engineering manager?

Then this training is for you.

During this intensive, practical and entertaining 2-day workshop you will build core leadership, communication and organizational skills that will make you truly valuable asset in any modern technology organisation.

Highlights

• The course is designed specifically for engineers and technical staff
• The course is based on practical and battle-proven techniques that are easy to customize and apply to your environment
• The course includes the best ideas from well-known movements such as Agile, Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, DevOps, M3.0, Rework)
• The course gives the opportunity to try many communication tricks in action
• The course runs in a small and diverse group with a lot of discussions, exercise and experience exchange. All your questions will be heard and addressed.
• Attendees will receive references to books, blogs and videos for continuous, independent self-development

Coverage

This training will cover a wide range of topics necessary to become an effective team leader, software architect or engineering manager:

• Understand the importance of leadership and soft skills (qualities of a leader, leadership models, adaptive leadership, how to boost confidence and gain trust, PageRank concept)
• How to make winning proposals, spark and drive technical change
• How to influence people, find consensus, overcome resistance and skepticism (understanding human behavior, the four levels of influence)
• How to deal with stress and decide in situations of high uncertainty (emotional intelligence 2.0, the basics of NLP and mindfulness)
• How to make customers happy (speaking customers' language, understanding customers' needs, growing a problem-solving mindset, expectation management, making promises and delivering on time)
• How to communicate effectively (how to choose communication channel, WAIT rule, face-to-face communication, body language, principles of NVC, effective follow-ups)
• How to build high-performance teams (understanding personalities, effective work organization, understanding Little’s Law, fixing bottlenecks, delegation, customer-centric thinking, fighting "not my responsibility" issue, motivation techniques)
• How to make your workplace healthy, more fun and dynamic (appreciation techniques, HTC principle, providing and asking for feedback, conflict resolution, measuring team health)
• How to organize effective learning and innovation culture in a team (T-shape growth, technology radar, pair-learning, squads, brown bag sessions, blameless post-mortems)
• How to avoid becoming a bottleneck (the bus factor, pair-leadership, effective coaching and delegation)
• How to build remarkable reputation and career
• … and much more!

During the training, together with other participants you will create a clear value proposition for your idea, understand visible and hidden goals of your teammates, run a retrospective, ensure that tasks are completed on time, challenge opaque requirements with "5 Whys" and much more!

The course is highly recommended for teams that work together.