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3-Hour Virtual Sprint
Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager
with Peter Krembs
Date Jan 21, 2003
Time
Format Live on Zoom
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Overview
This session will help participants define and distinguish leadership and management responsibilities in a technical or professional group or team. The session will also address how to first understand and then adapt to some of the unique motivational interests and viewpoints among technical and professional experts a leader is likely to encounter. Those in lead positions, technical project managers or those who have recently moved into managing a technical or professional function will find this session most helpful.
It is not uncommon for people whose work is highly specialized to struggle with the transition to leadership. This session is for specialists – scientists, manufacturing and design engineers, finance experts, information managers, insurance underwriters, lawyers, and health care specialists - who are now in positions of leadership, or are considering moving from informal to formal management positions in professional and expert-based organizations. This session will help participants define and distinguish leadership and management responsibilities in a technical or professional group or team. The session will also address how to first understand and then adapt to some of the unique motivational interests and viewpoints among technical and professional experts a leader is likely to encounter. Those in lead positions, technical project managers or those who have recently moved into managing a technical or professional function will find this session most helpful. Anyone trying to coach or help a new technical manager make the transition to a leadership role will get useful ideas for how to accelerate the transition.


Topics Covered
Implications for effective leadership in fast moving professional and expert-based organizations. 

Characteristic transition issues for those new to leadership roles, contrasting aspects of expert vs. leadership work, and how to accelerate the transition. 

How to adapt to motivational differences among people in the professional or technical leader’s sphere of influence. 

How to gain common meaning/alignment in technical and professional groups who tend to think independently and are occasionally resistant to strategic common vision. 

Positive influence motivation and skill required to be an effective technical/professional leader.

About Our Expert
Peter Krembs
PETER KREMBS
Mr. Peter Krembs has over 35 years of experience as a consultant to major U.S. and International Corporations in leadership development and change leadership. He specializes in the unique issues found in professional and expert-based cultures, including science, technology, financial services and health care. Current clients include: Applied Materials, The Atlantic Health System, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minneapolis/St. Paul, The Mayo Clinic, General  Mills, Proctor and Gamble, St. Jude Medical, Standard and Poor's, Teradyne, US Bank and Wellington Management. He also has extensive experience with professional service firms, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the US and UK, and RSM McGladrey. Mr. Krembs was a faculty member of the GE "Technical Manager Course" in the US, Europe, India and Asia for almost 20 years. He also provides facilitation services for leadership groups to do strategic planning and organization change. He has written many essays on leadership, including "The Performance Equation, An Orientation to Leadership Work", as well as "Leadership Challenges in Technical and Professional Organizations," a chapter that appears in the book, Leadership in a New Era, edited by John Renesch. He is the co-author of On-The-Level, Performance Communication that Works. Mr. Krembs is a Fellow, University of Minnesota Executive Education, in the Carlson School of Management. As a faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, he co-chairs the "Working with Groups, Small Systems and Teams" program. His graduate work is in Industrial Psychology from the University of Minnesota and has completed advanced training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's Organization and Systems Development Program.
Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development
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