Technical Management Program

Best part of

TMP for me is the incredible community.

It's a rich learning environment.

An incredible opportunity

to get out of the work environment

and come be a part of those who share both

technical background

as well as leadership challenges,

and to grow as a leader in an environment

that's nurturing and supportive.

The opportunity to go back

and make an impact in your organization.

I think TMP will help me be a better leader,

more effective with my team,

and I think

it'll help me really prioritize

what's important in my life and career.

So what we're really trying to do

is get leaders to think differently

about how they're engaging with their employees,

to start bringing

in those incremental changes over time.

So I often remind them that even small steps

in the right direction make very big impact.

A lot of the skills that we learn here,

they are collaboration skills.

We live in a world where we’re collaborating.

We need all the different perspectives.

We need all the different skill

sets in order to to create things.

It's better for everyone to have more

of that collaboration, more of that understanding.

So I think anybody, anybody would benefit

from this kind of course.

The classes are really grounded

in emotional intelligence,

that it is the core strength

that every manager’s required to have.

And if you can just build on that

and you can help your team build on that,

you're really creating

a place where everyone can succeed.

Someone realizes that you can use a technique,

just this methodology,

this simple little thing,

and it makes all the difference.

At the end of the week,

they have a complete action plan

to take back and implement

everything that they learned.

We want the student to take away

what are they going to do on Monday

to make their life better?

What are they going

to do Monday to be more happy as a manager?

One of the first things that I want to do

is go to the people that I work

for, that I work with, that I help supervise

and ask them,

“What do I do that helps empower you to do your job?

And what do I do that gets in the way?”

Well, I hope that they go back

and look at their teams in a new way as people

as complex as themselves. What is it

that you don't know about them that you could know,

and how would that impact your approach to them?

What I love about the diversity of the students

that we get

to really get an opportunity

to reach them at wherever they are in their career,

and really help

orient them in ways

that can make them more successful,

help them

achieve their career

goals, and create teams

that are feeling better about the work

that they do, are able to thrive

and then achieve their own professional goals

in the process.

The instructors are all amazing

and they all bring a lot of value.

I've loved the Signs of Excellence with Bob Bauer.

I've really resonated

with everything

that Kim Jones has said in her inclusion class.

Cultural analysis with card games is a blast.

Knowing that I can help them be more effective,

help them work smarter, not harder.

That's what puts a smile on my face.

There's nothing harder than managing people.

And so to see that is something

they can be fascinated

about rather than frustrated with.

People look at where they are now

and where they want to be in the future.

It's just the best place to teach them

and the best place to learn.

What's great about this

program is people come as they are

and they emerge being their very best self.