Toolkit for Tech Leadership (TOTEL)®
Leadership in an engineering environment face a unique set of issues. Within large engineering and delivery environments, leadership involves influencing, negotiation, resolving conflicts, persuasion, and controlling resources that can have multiple reporting lines and commitment levels that can vary among projects. Added to this, is the change required by customers in an already crunched environment. With addition of new unknowns, fear and reluctance only increase to place more pressure on leadership skills.
“Leadership” is no longer the word used only to represent a few charismatic, innovative leaders at the top. The ability to lead and inspire is a capability that must permeate an organization today, more so with professionals who lead large programs and are responsible for successful delivery and customer delight. Due to the dynamic nature of business, the value of projects increasing manifold, and work getting complex – it is imperative for organizations to establish a leadership engine, develop a pipeline of strong leaders, create a cadre of entrepreneurial leaders, and lift the lid on the leadership ability of such individual professionals.