On-The-Job Skills for Technology Developers

On-The-Job Skills for Technology Developers (Things You Were Not Taught In School)

Andrew Zander
& Megan Cotugno
Gerson Lehrman Group
Short Course #4

Length: 1/2 Day Course

Date: 03/04/2017 – Saturday

Fee: $325 ($425 after 2/18/17)

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Target Audience

The material in this short course is geared toward finishing graduate students about to embark on corporate positions, new hires in industry and seasoned technical developers wishing to upgrade some of their soft skills.

Course Description

In this half day short course, presented by Dr. Andrew Zander and Ms. Megan Cotugno, topics that technology developers need to succeed in their jobs will be covered. Among the topics covered, and that almost certainly were neglected or never covered in formal education programs for chemists, physicists and engineers, will be (not inclusive) Work Patterns; Being Organized; Confidential Documents; Credentials; Project and Program Management Basics; Teaming; Budgets and Finances for development; the Cost of RDT&E; Personnel Management Basics; Electronic Communications in the Workplace; Innovation; ECO/ECN Processes; Leadership in the Technical Domain.