Gaining Support for Your Projects and Ideas
Engineers are often surprised when others do
not recognize their ideas as “great.” An engineer who has worked
hard to solve a technical problem arrives at a solution, announces
the “great idea,” and encounters lack of enthusiasm at best, or
resistance or naysaying at worst.
How can engineers and their managers avoid such
situations and set up their projects for support and success?
Remember that not everyone is as smart as the engineer who solved
the technical problem. Others may need education about the
issue. Remember to test your assumptions. Do others share
the same objectives? Perhaps the engineer worked hard to solve a
problem that others in the organization assign a low priority to.
Perhaps some fundamental assumptions have changed, rendering this
particular problem irrelevant.
Whether other stakeholders need education or
your goals need realignment with the organization’s goals, a
conscious effort to gain support for your projects and ideas can
help.
Engineering managers are rarely told that part
of their job is to gain the support of others for their projects.
And their failure to gain such support can easily lead to project
failure. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn what
is involved in gaining support for a project, why it is
important and how to do it.
Participants gain an understanding of
