Leadership and management

Unlocking the key attributes of a high-performing director

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the key skills required and the factors involved with successful transition into a director role.

1 hour

Summary

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the key skills required and the factors involved with successful transition into a director role.

Directors are exposed to a multitude of challenges, including people management, governance and risk management. Success as a director relies on the alignment of ambition, resources, finances and time.

By mastering the essential competencies for being a successful director, you can enhance your leadership effectiveness and contribution at senior management level.

You will also learn how to handle challenging business situations and produce measurable results for your organisation. The webinar will give you a chance to find out more about the programme and how this can help enhance your skills to becoming a Director. We will highlight key strategic drives, techniques, personal acumen and latest market topics that can be implemented into your business by attending the programme.

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Who should attend?

Individuals who currently have Chartered Management status, Heads of Department , Senior Engineering Managers and Directors wanting to find out more information on the programme for themselves or their team.

How will I benefit?

After this webinar attendees will be able to:

Have a better idea of your next steps towards becoming a director
Understand the changes in mindset required when moving from management to director
How to develop and manage high-performance team
Learn how personality preferences affect leadership styles and your own preferred style of leadership
Learn how individuals are motivated and how these affect performance

Contributes 1 CPD hour

Key topics

What is a team – how is it different to a group – some definitions and implications
Focus - keeping the main thing the main thing – lead and lag and qualitative and quantitative indicators
What a team needs – a look at the evidence and some self assessment
The importance of purpose
Leading not managing
Team vs objectives – what kind of director will I be?

By clicking ‘Register Now’ you will be taken to a third-party website hosted by Workcast where you will be required to provide some personal information about yourself to access the webinar. This information will be shared between the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Workcast.

Please note that we are unable to provide a certificate of completion/attendance for this webinar. We regret the inconvenience and encourage you to record your attendance using alternative methods.

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Unlocking the key attributes of a high-performing director.

John Hattam

John has built a successful consulting business in both the private and public sectors, specialising in sales and marketing, product and customer development, and business planning.

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CPD Hours:

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