Communication for Engineers

Course Description

It’s not an entirely fair stereotype that engineers aren’t good communicators.  Engineers are sharp, thoughtful people with technical proficiencies who can be quite focused on the tasks entrusted to them.  Those skillsets, however, don’t always correspond with certain communication proficiencies — proficiencies that are valuable in any organization.  Moreover, engineers that are connected to the overall mission and goals of their organizations can provide exceptional value to the business and its customers.

Our workshops on communication for engineers will lead to increased skills in interpersonal communication, sensitivities to customer-oriented interactions, and greater abilities to have positive outcomes and experiences with internal interactions with other departments within their organizations.  In general, we have found that engineers and technical people are quite engaged in our workshops on this subject and leave with a greater confidence regarding their ability to express their ideas and connect with their co-workers.

Good follow-ups to this course would be our Cross-Disciplinary Interactions or Communications in Teams workshops.

Course Categories

Industries

Business
Engineering
Sales

Course Length Options

Our Communication for Engineers material can be presented as a series of three or four modules over time, or presented in full in a full-day workshop. We will happily provide you with greater depth on how we might best implement this material in your context, but with the assumption that this is your first experience with this course you may want to consider the course length options as providing increasing depth and skill development. For instance, an initial 90 minute Communication for Engineers workshop will be more focused on framing the issue than on skill development to navigate the issues presented. We always seek to provide actionable take-aways in our workshops, but will not be able to build competencies in this area at the same depth as a half or full day workshop will allow.

Another way to view our course length options is to view them on a continuum. Most of our courses are designed to move from Awareness to Competency to Mastery. The 2-hour to half-day workshops will provide increasing depth of Competency with the full day workshop designed to provide very strong skills (Mastery) in the subject matter. That said, the skillset obtained in a full day program can be supplemented and re-enforced with follow-up experiences.

90 Minutes

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps

2 Hours

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues

3 Hours

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items

Half Day

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items
  • Small Group Exercises

Full Day

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items
  • Small Group Exercises
  • Small Group Projects
  • Accountability Plan

Group Size Options

Small Group

5 - 20 Participants

Small Group

Communication for Engineers workshops work quite well in small group settings.

Mid-Size Group

Groups of 25 - 100

Mid-Size Groups

Groups of 25 – 100 work well for Communication for Engineers workshops.

Large Groups

Groups of 100 - 250

Large Groups

We can provide a valuable experience for large groups for our Communication for Engineers workshops. Understanding the facility will, however, be important for tailoring the course.

Conferences

Groups of 250 +

Conferences

For especially large groups, we would not recommend more than a half-day experience for Communication for Engineers.

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