GS04 - Leading Change in an Engineering Business

“The senior leadership training and development support provided by EngPro Solutions has provided our managers and junior leaders with new skills and techniques to manage organisational performance. They are more commercially aware, confident to address poor behaviours and are overall better leaders. Additionally, Howard provided us with in depth analysis and feedback on team status and development – highly useful.”

Darren Willshire, Commercial Director, West

Overview

Presented by change leaders; This workshop has been established and designed specifically for the engineering manager.  Layering onto your sound leadership skills, this workshop adds the application of delivering change management, specifically tackling the complexities surrounding changes in engineering; be they process or product. 

The bulk of change projects fail, this course sets you up to succeed, taking you from basic business case and stakeholder buy-in through to the introduction of project management tools.

Key topics:

1.  Why change - the success strategy

2. The business case

3. Planning for successful change

4. Stakeholder engagement and management

5. Developing and deploying the communications plan

6. Be in the ‘17%’ - make it stick!

EngPro Approach

This workshop has been designed around a case study of an imaginary organisation facing significant change. This study weaves its way through the whole course and allows the delegates to practice different skills and manage different characters both large and small.

The workshop concludes with a building of a recommendation to the (imaginary) Board of Directors about the change, together with an outline plan and presentation.

A challenging and full day - but heaps of fun.

Previous Clients:

“Fantastic delivery. Thanks Howard and a really informative and enjoyable day..” – Brian Parcell, General Manager BAMC

“Great delivery, Howard made the concept of change simple in that he broke it down into bite-sized chunks that I could understand and manage.” - Head of Operations, Hitachi Rail Limited

“The change management tracking tool was great, can we have a copy please?” - Senior Production Manager, Hitachi Rail Ltd. (EngPro comment - it is in the DRC ready for you…. and others, thanks I had missed that, Howard)

Specifications:

Duration: 2 days

Location: Ideally onsite, but can be delivered online

Delivery style: Experienced change expert (leader), facilitating your learning and sharing key experience and knowledge

Target Audience: Production Managers; Planning Managers; Materials Managers; Rising stars

Typical co-hort size: 9 to 12 delegates

Key skills learnt:  

  • Change for change sake? Why change? Building the burning platform

  • Understanding the real problem, bottom up approach to change

  • The success strategy - top down approach; fusing the two

  • Setting realistic and effective success measures

  • Stretch targets

  • Building the business case

  • Developing the plan

  • Stakeholder engagement and wicket rolling the idea

  • Preparing well, starting right

  • Governance and keeping it all on track

  • Behaviours and mindsets - the role of the Team Leader community

  • Communications plan - taking the team and business with you

  • ‘Be in the 17%’ - making it stick

Scoping

  • This workshop runs without the need for much scoping.

Case studies:

  • A case study has been developed specifically for this course. It is given out as pre-reading and weaves it’s way throughout the entire course. The delegates will interview different staff members, develop a realistic issues list, consider the political landscape and, develop a plan. Using the case study as it evolves they will have access to build a plan and present options for change to the (imaginary) Board of Directors.

Accreditation: This course counts 16 hours CPD, for Engineering Council UKSPEC competences C, D and E.

Certification: If requested eCertificates for attendance can be provided.

Examination: This course has no examination, although post workshop activities can be set to allow your company to leverage learning further.

Supporting materials: Life-long access to our extensive delegate resource centre; all materials for the training delivery; all in-class exercises; further reading advice.

Additional costs: Nil - the price we will quote is inclusive of travel, substance and any other associated costs.