Engineering Leadership Workshops

These Engineering Leadership Workshops cover a wide variety of topics, including:

• Project Management
• Developer Operations (DevOps)
• Risk Assessment/Risk Management
• Leadership/Group Management and Development

Leadership Curriculum

1. What is a Team?
   • Key traits of teams
   • Team values
   • Advantages of teams
   • Variety of team structures
   • Group Development/Formation
2. Group Culture
   • Rehash key traits
   • Just Culture
   • How can we achieve a just culture?
   • Discussion of how E4E might change
3. Goals, Expectations, and Consequences
   • Why is it important for these to be clear?
   • What makes a good goal?
   • What implicit goals do we have?
   • What makes a good expectation?
   • What implicit expectations do we have for each other?
   • What makes a good consequence?
   • What implicit consequences do we have for each other?
4. Effective Feedback
   • Recap expectations and consequences
   • Recap purpose of debriefs and feedback
   • 6 R's of debriefs
   • GIFTS of feedback
5. Leadership and Group Management
   • Leadership Styles
   • Contextual leadership/Leadership perception
   • Applicability of each style
   • Where can decisions be made?
   • Where should decisions be made?
6. What is the role of the leader?
   • Recap of leadership styles
   • What are key traits of leaders?
   • What are core responsibilities of leaders?
   • What are unfortunate consequences of being a leader?
   • What does it mean to be successful as a leader?
7. Conflict Resolution
   • What causes conflict?
   • How can we recognize conflict?
   • How can we manage/mitigate conflicts?
   • VOEMP
   • What happens if we don't manage the conflict?
8. Planning
   • Strategic vs day-to-day planning
   • Gantt Charts
   • Kanban/Agile Boards
   • When to use each
9. Risk Management and Decision Making in Engineering
   • Context of engineering management
   • What is risk?
   • Types of risk in engineering
   • Risk management strategies
   • Types of decisions
   • When are each of these appropriate?
   • How to decide who should be involved in making decisions?
10. Teaching and Presenting (i.e. Learning and Listening)
    • What is the purpose of teaching?
    • How do people learn?
11. Mentoring vs Teaching
12. Building Rapport
    • Everyone has a story
    • Now you've built rapport, what then?
13. Team Management
    • Burn Rate
    • Bus Factor
    • Churn