The People-centric Organization - CD Seminar (0.1 CEUs)

Course Description

Many engineering organizations profess to be “people oriented” but few truly “walk the talk”. This webinar-on-CD explains the concept of a people centric organization where employees perform at their best doing what they do best every day in an environment that supports them by nurturing their personal growth and professional development and recognizing and rewarding their excellent performance. The importance of recognizing employees’ talents and strengths and finding ways to play to those talents and strengths is emphasized. Helping employees to do the same is addressed. How an organization can build a strong, institutionalized behavioral knowledge base that helps employees better understand themselves and others is covered. It explains how this knowledge base provides a foundation for building better people skills throughout the organization that enable stronger interpersonal relationships and better teamwork which are critical to the success of engineering organizations. This fast-paced, one-hour webinar-on-CD presents a framework for creating a true, people-centric organization. It provides benchmarking guidance for determining whether an organization that purports to be “people oriented” truly “walks the talk.”

Webinar Benefits

• Become more aware of and knowledgeable about basic principles for managing the “people-side” of technical professional organizations
• Learn how organizations can and are applying these managerial principles in practice to further develop and realize the full potential of their workforces.
• Change your personal perspective from focusing on correcting weaknesses to building on talents and strengths
• Earn one Professional Development Hour (PDH)

Intended Audience

This webinar-on-CD is for engineers and other technical professionals who serve in supervisory and managerial roles in organizations and those who aspire to serve in these roles. The principles and guidance provided can be applied at any and all organizational levels: project teams, program units, departments, divisions and organization-wide.

Summary Outline

• The First, Break All The Rules principals for recognizing talents, building strengths and finding the right “fit”
• Creating a platform for understanding self and others
• The “new” Golden Rule for people interaction
• People skills… the grease that makes the gears mesh smoother
• Recognizing and rewarding what’s most important
• Connecting strategy to operations and operations to people