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Leadership Skills for Senior Technical Staff
Overview | Curriculum
Leadership Skills for the Senior Technical Staff covers the following material:
What is technical leadership?
- The similarities and differences to a technical manager role
- The traits of a successful technical leader
- Depth versus breadth of knowledge
Constant learning and teaching
- How can one accelerate learning (in oneself and others)
- The responsibility to share one’s knowledge
- Methods of learning within the day-to-day environment
- Methods of teaching within the day-to-day environment
Communicating
- Selling ideas and recommendations to colleagues and management
- Communicating effectively across an organization (up, down, out, etc)
- How to extract the essential information needed for each audience
- The importance of communicating and timing during critical situations
- Understanding credibility and how to enhance it
- Improving the skills
Organizational Skills (politics)
- What is it? -- why bother to understand it?
- Defining good working relationships
- Understanding the types of decision-making in a group
- Challenges and tactics
Running a productive (and short) meeting
- What is a successful meeting?
- Preparing for them
- Conducting them and keeping them on track
- Following up
Understanding the Business
- The importance of understanding more than the technology
- Where is the information about the business?
- Identifying the business goals of a technical project
Budgeting
- The overall process
- The need for a technical leader to understand this
- How to prepare for various phases of the process
- Understanding the business requirements
Developing a career
- Making the decision between management and a technical career
- Understanding promotions
- Elements of career growth
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