Leadership Seminar:

IET: Herding Cats - Leadership Insights for Technical Professionals

Abstract:

Wanted: great engineers to become inspirational leaders.
...is this you?

• Have you been promoted to a leadership role but feel unprepared?
• Are you lacking confidence in your ability to transition into management?
• Is a leadership role the next step in your career progression and you need to be ready?
• Are you looking for some tips and tools that will take you from being a competent manager to an admired leader?

A study of 1000 managers demonstrated less than 10% of their weekly activity was spent on leadership, 30 to 40% was spent on management, but over 60% was spent on operational and technical activities.

It is increasingly normal for engineers and technical professionals to be elevated into management roles, often early in their careers. Without training, support and coaching, many will fail.

Don’t fail to prepare for leadership success!

FREE 90 MINUTE SEMINAR: “Herding Cats – Leadership Insights for Technical Professionals”

• The fundamental differences between leadership and management
• Why both are required for business success
• How great leadership starts with self leadership
• How to understand who’s on your team and how to bring the best out in them

Registration:

Please register online at our Registration page.

FREE: register today and receive a free eBook entitled ‘7 Secret Ingredients for Career Success’ (sent to your email address prior to the event).

Presenter(s):

Cameron Smith is a qualified Electrical Engineer, having graduated from Monash University with Honours, where he specialised in Power Systems Engineering. Selected by BHP Steel as one of three electrical engineering undergraduates at Monash to undertake a traineeship, Cameron commenced his career as a Trainee Electrical Engineer straight out of secondary college. Cameron initially worked alongside electricians as their trade assistant, where he learned valuable and practical lessons, including earning respect, which would hold him in good stead for future leadership roles.

Cameron’s career rapidly progressed through supervisory and management roles in heavy industry, utilities, equipment supply and construction. With a diverse background in both operational management and business development, Cameron has significant experience in building the successful, high performance teams required to win and deliver contracts in a collaborative manner. One of his most significant achievements was the start up of the South Australian operation for a large construction contractor, increasing revenue and profitability by securing a 5-year strategic partnership with a utility.

Throughout his career, Cameron has maintained an interest and passion for mentoring and coaching individuals and teams to achieve outstanding results. This passion led Cameron to launch catching dreams in 2009, with the aim of facilitating solutions to those problems that hold us back from achieving our goals, fulfilling our potential and living our dreams.

Cameron currently coaches and mentors individuals, teams and businesses and focuses on career transition, leadership development and the creation of high performance teams.

Cameron is an accredited practitioner in Extended DiSC behavioural profiling, and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

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