It's time to take control of your work.
Engineer managers and leaders everywhere struggle with many of the same issues:
- Juggling competing priorities
- Balancing getting work done with developing your team
- Endless to-do lists
- Mindless meetings
- Bottomless email inboxes
It can feel impossible to get on top of things and get things under control without putting overtime in every week.
Luckily, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can get control of your work.
All it takes is a system, and this course will show you the way.
Introducing: Productivity for Engineering Managers
A course to help engineers take control of their work, get things done, and prioritize what matters
In this course, we teach engineering leaders and managers how to:
Balance priorities: Learn to balance competing projects and priorities in a complex, fast-moving environment
Get things done while supporting your team: Getting your own work done doesn't have to come at the expense of developing the people on your team. We'll show you how to do both.
Achieve work-life balance: With the right approach, you can get everything done and still make it home for supper.
Find calm confidence: Get control of your to-do list and leave stress behind.
Do important work every day: You became an engineer to do big things - get back to what matters.
Perform at your very best: Play to your strengths and do incredible work
Stop firefighting: Learn to avoid getting sucked into "emergencies"
Achieve your goals: Learn how to make time to accomplish the things you really want to.
Make a statement: Stand out from the crowd by making a real difference.
What is the Productivity Pyramid?
The Productivity for Engineering Managers course relies on a unique framework for getting things done called The Productivity Pyramid. This framework was developed specifically to maximize productivity for engineering managers in complex, fast-paced environments.
The Productivity Pyramid framework has three core elements: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Systems.
Effectiveness
Productivity relies on doing the right things in the first place. This course teaches you how to establish the right work to do so that you're not wasting time on things that don't ultimately matter.
Efficiency
Once you know which work to do, you then need to turn your attention to working as efficiently as possible. This course will equip you with the tools you need to get things done with as little time and energy as possible.
Systems
Once you know how to be effective and efficient, you need ways to sustain your productivity over the long run. We'll teach you how to set up systems, habits, and processes to do just that.
Meet the teacher
Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.
Prior to launching The Engineering & Leadership Project, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He's worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.
Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He's also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).
Pat's work has been featured in CBS News, Engineering.com, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Financial Times.
Curriculum Highlights
Week 1 - Introduction
Introduction to the basic concepts of the Productivity Pyramid and setting a personal productivity baseline.
Week 2 and 3 - Effectiveness
Introduction to the concept of effectiveness, exploring the two main roles of an engineering manager, and aligning your work to your goals.
Week 4 - Efficiency
Introduction to the concept of efficiency, exploring the Pareto Principle, the power of focus.
Week 5 - Systems
Introduction to the concept of systems, exploring the power of habits, and taking advantage of processes.
Week 6 - Systems for Effectiveness
Exploring systems that can be used to sustain effectiveness.
Week 7 - Systems for Efficiency
Exploring systems that can be used to sustain efficiency.
Week 8 - Integration and Conclusion
This week integrates the tools and concepts introduced in this course and shows how they can be applied. It also reviews the material covered in the course and offers next steps for continuing to grow as an engineering manager or leader.
What to expect in the Productivity for Engineering Managers Course
This course is video-based and spans 8 weeks. Each week, a new section of the course is opened for you to explore. This ensures you have time to integrated the material from each week into your work, and keeps a steady pace throughout the course.
Here's what you get with this course:
40+ Video lectures - Each video is kept short and to the point, making it easy for you to digest material.
Worksheets and templates - Where relevant, we provide you copies of worksheets and templates to make it easy to follow along with the material.
Transcripts - We transcribe every video to make it easy to follow along and search for content later on.
Downloadable Student Workbooks - We package up each lecture's slides and transcript into a convenient downloadable format to make it easy to keep notes and for future reference.
Quizzes - Short quizzes after each lecture help to reinforce the material and make it stick.
Further Reading - For people who want to dive deeper into a particular topic, we provide recommendations for further reading.
Access to the teacher - Using the course's online comment system, you can ask the teacher questions and get feedback.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
We understand that investing in a course can be tough, but because I believe so much in the material, and want to remove all risk from you, we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.
If, for whatever reason, you're not thrilled with the course, we refund the full cost of the course within 30 days of purchase. No questions asked, no strings attached.
What previous students are saying
"Pat’s productivity course was fantastic. Productivity is something I’ve always struggled with. The content was great, but perhaps most importantly for me was the active discussion with Pat ... [it] really helped me apply some of the concepts I was learning.
Pat is an excellent teacher who brings actionable insights with lived experience. He truly wants all his clients and students to succeed, and it shows!
Work with Pat if you want to level up your productivity!"
Jeff Perry - Former student and Founder of More Than Engineering
Productivity Coaching and Bundles
If you'd like one-on-one help with your productivity, check out our productivity coaching program for engineering managers. You can also bundle our course and coaching program at a special low rate.
