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Communication Strategies for Technical Professionals: Leveraging Your Technical Expertise
Who Should Attend?
Junior to mid-level engineers, scientists, and other technical professionals who are ready to expand their expertise in promoting their ideas and themselves within the organization.
Key Participant Benefits
Promoting your ideas and yourself within the organization requires a set of communications skills that complements your technical expertise. The earlier in your career that you learn and implement those complementary skills, the faster you will be prepared to expand your scope professionally. Communication Strategies for Technical Professionals: Leveraging Your Technical Expertise is specifically designed for professionals with technical backgrounds. You will waste no time in trying to adapt general-audience concepts to your technical environment. The specialized content of this course will allow you to return to work with a set of tools that can be immediately and effectively applied.
Through participation in Strategies for Technical Professionals: Leveraging Your Technical Expertise, you will better understand:
• The importance of effective communication
• Your own communication skills and styles
• The role of people in getting ideas promoted and decisions implemented
• The differences in personal perspectives and the tactics to bring people together
You will couple this understanding with skill-sets designed to make you more effective in the workplace, such as:
• Handling conflict effectively
• Negotiating with skill
• Employing collaboration instead of competition
• Operating more effectively within a group
• Positioning yourself for career/managerial growth
2009 Offerings
October 19-21, 2009
Course fee: $2,800*
*Includes course materials, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the first evening
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