Purpose and Background

Thriving private, public, academic, and volunteer organizations exhibit a powerful mix of leading, managing, and producing. At all levels and in all positions, visions are created as a result of leadership and translated to reality by means of management and production capabilities. In contrast, organizations that are merely surviving or already dying tend to lack one of the three essential features, often leadership.

Leading is determined not by position, but by knowledge, skills, and attitude. We are not born as leaders; however, we can become leaders. Perhaps you work hard and manage well but something is missing. Perhaps it’s one or more of the leadership qualities necessary to take you up to the next level. This webinar will help you understand leadership qualities and suggest how to develop them in yourself and others.

This forward-looking webinar will enable you to distinguish among the producing, managing, and leading functions. With respect to the last two, leadership author Warren G. Bennis said: “Leaders are people who do the right things; managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly.” You will learn how to move further into the leading function by considering seven qualities of effective leaders. Participants receive a detailed handout on which the webinar will draw. The handout includes references to articles, books, e-newsletters, websites, and other self-study materials.

Learning Outcomes

• Distinguish among producing, managing, and leading
• Obtain a 20 question change checklist
• Recognize the difference between being the thermometer and the thermostat
• List the 7 qualities of effective leaders

Webinar Benefits

• Distinguish among producing, managing, and leading
• Acquire leading knowledge, skills, and attitudes
• Develop leading qualities in others
• Achieve more success and significance
• Move beyond job security to career security
• Strengthen your organization

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

This webinar is for engineers and other technical professionals who serve in the private, public, academic, or volunteer sectors and want to achieve even more success and significance. It will help those who desire to accomplish more personally, professionally, and within their communities and who want to influence others to do likewise.

Webinar Outline

• The three legs of a strong organization
• Contrasting leading, managing, and producing
• Top down versus shared responsibility organizational structures
• Where are you and your organization?
• The seven qualities of effective leaders
• Ways to develop the seven qualities in you and nurture them in others
• Resources for additional study

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]