What is covered?
Professional Communications
- Develop verbal and nonverbal communication styles by applying verbal and nonverbal skills in various speaking situations; videotaping and viewing one’s performance; critiquing one’s style; and receiving diagnostic evaluations.
- Use techniques, such as cognitive restructuring, to reduce speaker apprehension.
- Increase effectiveness in informative and persuasive message development using audience analysis, principles of organization, principles of Aristotle’s rhetoric, language devices, and supporting material (examples, narratives, testimony, and facts and statistics).
- Critically evaluate messages in terms of various criteria for effectiveness.
Foundations of Data Science and Analytics
- Identify and assess the opportunities, needs and constraints for data collection, measurement, tracking, analysis, security, reporting and overall management within a strategic organizational context
- Describe the business issues that data science and analytics can address and resolve
- Identify the methods by which data can be collected, stored, secured, analyzed, interpreted, forecasted, visualized, reported and applied in a business environment
- Assess the most common challenges and issues that arise in the management of data
Organizational Leadership and Decision Making
- Examine multiple viewpoints for differing frames of reference, perspectives, and orientations to the same situation.
- Employ leadership, team-building and decision-making concepts; examine how teams make high-stakes decisions in stressful situations, why individuals and teams make flawed choices and how leaders shape the context and the process through which teams make decisions.
- Critically reflect on leadership style and your own experience within a team and its leadership.
- Understand the role of leaders in setting strategic focus and direction.
Negotiating and Conflict Resolution
- Develop a systematic plan to negotiate with colleagues, bosses, clients, other stakeholders, and external groups of all kinds, by: analyzing characteristics of a negotiation situation; analyzing positions taken during negotiation; analyzing cultural differences and assessing how they influence negotiations; and using culturally responsive negotiation strategies.
- Assess how people communicate during negotiation and manage mood/emotion accordingly.
- Apply strategies for conflict management, managing different levels of conflict and utilizing components of a conflict resolution strategy.
- Improve negotiation communication.
- Recognize three major sources of power that exist: information and expertise, control over resources, and one’s position in an organization or network.
What is the schedule?
Day |
Time |
Class |
1 |
10:30AM – 4:00PM |
Professional Communications |
2 |
10:30AM – 4:00PM |
Foundations of Data Science and Analytics |
3 |
10:30AM – 4:00PM |
Organizational Leadership and Decision Making |
4 |
10:30AM – 4:00PM |
Advanced Scheduling and Control |
Who Should Attend?
The participants should have an Engineering degree and at least 5-7 years of experience in technology industry. The participant should be passionate about solution engineering, system design and effective communication. This course is also recommended for Development/Test Leads to contribute at a higher level in their technical projects.
Upon successful completion of this course you will receive certificate as well as a chance to get in the TPM Masters boot camp, which builds on top of this TPM foundation knowledge.
Hope to see you building your career one brick at a time!
Education Team, NWITP