Engineering Management Academy

Why a Management Academy? Why should you be interested in this Engineering Management Academy from SAE? The answer to these questions lies in the statistics highlighted by surveys of hiring managers. For example, are you aware that:

• 28% of internal leadership promotions fail
  
  
• On average, it takes six years before an individual receives any formal training after being promoted to a management position
  
  
• Individual contributors, who are technical experts, are usually natural candidates for  promotions to management positions. However, without proper training in topics such as coaching, mentoring, team building, conflict resolution, decision making, and communication skills, these technical experts may not be operating at their maximum potential.
  
  
• The academy is designed to initiate and/or accelerate the development process for participants by focusing on specific content and techniques throughout the week. Such an approach is intended to eliminate micro-managing, improve employee engagement, improve morale, reduce employee turnover, improve productivity and ensure a great ROI. The participants are likely to start using these methods at their workplace as soon as the week after the academy. Their departments, colleagues, superiors, juniors and in fact the whole organization is expected to benefit as a result of the improved skills of the participants.

SAE convened an Advisory Panel of Mobility industry representatives who identified the key topics to be covered in the Academy. We then gathered an outstanding team of coaches who have personally undergone this entire phase from being individual contributors, to being in engineering management positions, to being transformational leaders. These coaches will address the topics being offered by the Academy from their personal and first-hand accounts. The freshness and authenticity of their approach lies in the fact that they don"t want to be called "experts". Nor are they "Instructors". They are coaches who bring a combined experience of over 90 years to the academy, and are willing to share their experiences with others.

Attend this academy and:

• Improve your communication and decision making skills
• Manage challenging situations without getting emotionally hooked
• Optimize your team's output, quality of throughput, commitment and engagement
• Improve your ability to give and receive positive and constructive feedback
• Begin a journey of growth and self-awareness for yourself to continually improve your leadership skills

Special Features

• You will be assigned a coach who will work with you one-on-one to identify new opportunities for enhancing your management skills and develop an action plan that will help you move forward towards your goals and success as a manager.
• Throughout the academy you will practice your newly learned skills so you are ready to implement them when you return to work.
• Invited experienced engineering managers will be on-site to share their perspectives and lessons learned.