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 developer, architect, team lead?

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 highly valuable asset in any modern technology organisation.

Highlights

• The course is designed specifically for engineers and delivery teams
• 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, Management 3.0, Rework)
• The course gives the opportunity to try many different 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 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:

• What makes a good leader (qualities of a good leader, leadership anti-patterns, different leadership models, responsibilities of a leader)
• How to combine leadership, management, and technical duties (how to grow as a leader, how to find time for coding, how to balance soft and hard skills)
• How to gain trust and influence people (how humans behave, universal needs, how to motivate people, how to influence people, how to overcome resistence and skepticism)
• How to make winning proposals, spark, and drive technical change (how to present ideas, how to change things for the best, how to find consensus)
• How to make customers happy and make your team #1 (how to understand what a customer needs with root cause analysis, how (not) to make promises and deliver on time, how to exceed expectations)
• How to negotiate and say "no" without being killed (how to deal with ever-changing priorities, how to estimate work, how to deal with tight deadlines)
• How to communicate effectively (face-to-face vs. online communication, choosing the right spoken and body language, WAIT rule, nonviolent communication, commitment language)
• How to deal with difficult people ("tought" personalities, difficult conversations, dealing with low and average performance, conflict resolution)
• How to build high-performance teams (effective work organization, delegation, retrospectives, dealing with "not my responsibility" issue, how to avoid becoming a bottleneck)
• How to make your workplace more healthy, fun, and dynamic (appreciation techniques, HTC principle, measuring team's health)
• How to organize effective learning culture in a team (brown bags, innovation time, squads, mentoring, code reviews, pairing)
• How to deal with stress, anxiety, and decide in situations of high uncertainty (emotional intelligence, the basics of NLP and mindfulness)
• 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.