Courses > Leadership Workshop
We understand geeks. No generic leadership wisdom. We go deep. We go real.
HOSTED BY
Marian Kamenistak
🎓 Founder and Chief Coach at Engineering Leaders Community « 🚀 $200M+ Series A-D Fractional VP Engineering « Lecturer/Moderator/Speaker
Course overview
Build your LEGO.
We tailor the workshop from the proposed topics as LEGO pieces.
We make the workshop fit to your current company stage, culture, and ambitions of your leaders, ensuring we reach the top added value, embraced by highly-positive attendee feedbacks.
Rookie Engineering Managers eager to excel in fast-paced environments.
Early-stage and startup founders and CTOs looking to accelerate the pace of their teams' delivery.
Leaders with a few years of experience seeking to sharpen their skills and adapt to the unique challenges of high-growth companies.
DAY ONE & TWO
DAY THREE & FOUR
00 Starting Point
02 Focus
07 Team Stability
08 Team Growth
10 From a Mediocre to High-Performing Team
11 Metrics That Truly matter and Nobody told you about
05 Communication Foundation
06 Communication Mastery
12 Understand Career Growth for Your Team
13 Enable True Learning – Your Topmost Value
14 Boost Your Work-Life Balance ⭐️
15 Be the Master-blaster in Change Management
16 ⭐️ FINAL: Leader Worth Following
Cohort: 2 - 12 people max.
I recommend splitting it into 2+2 days with a 1-2 week gap in between. I suggest having a dinner between the two days
Location: Either in your office or preferably outside. I'm happy to offer venues at a reasonable price that I've tried and tested, or please arrange a space on your end.
Potential travel and accommodation is not price included.
Social media: We are fine with taking screenshot pictures and event pictures, including attendees, We are both eligible to use pictures and event information to highlight the cooperation on social media. However, the details and tne content of the workshop stay private.
Invoicing: I don't issue invoices in advance, only after evaluating that the course was successful based on feedback, and that's within a maximum of one month after the course. I believe in the principle of fairness and want to earn my counter-value fairly and obtain a positive reference from you.
No certificates but change in perception of the World, identifying leadership principles of our own.
Managers who go through my course will be sufficiently improved so as not to make the top recurring mistakes leading to greater inefficiency or collapse.
I have an excellent overview of the top issues because I have been mentoring engineering leaders for 6 years, with 20y overall experience in the field. I know how to set up new team leads and give them a solid boost: instead of 'floundering' in a new manager role for 1-2 years
I'd be happy to see your team leads/engineering managers at the Engineering Leadership community in Prague. After the course and getting acquainted, I'd be glad to accept their membership: https://www.engineeringleaders.cz
We organize meetups every 6 weeks; more details on the website.
I'd also be glad to discuss the possibility of involving your company into the community more formally.
I can inspire people for their mission, and I really like to see people in sessions who are enthusiastic about leadership and come to us with a desire for improvement. If we see individuals who do not match this, I'd be happy to give you a heads up.
We can adapt the course both in content and length, and I am happy to offer an extended or online version with deeper topics.
Optional: Some companies like when I also offer a 1-hour individual mentoring session for all participants, where we discuss their situation and top burning issues, and they also receive specific guidance for their scene.
If we have a top participant/ace you care about, we can arrange for dedicated individual mentoring for your most potential performers.
Is speak to attendees as a friend, not an all migthly lecturer.
There will be no certificates but practical knowledge we seek to gather.
There will be little to no slides but loads of writing, stories and interaction.
There will be mini-homeworks at the end of each day.
After each day 4-5pm, you are privileged to book an extra individual consultancy hour to help you in your unique situation.
I distance myself from general leadership programs and coaches in that I have gone through the same journey from developer to architect to manager, and I know what troubles our people and what it feels like when things don't work in the context of the nerd/geek world through the lens of an introvert.
Persistence: I build my program around stories. Stories sell, and people remember them much better. Other programs also have value, but the effect fades much more quickly (this is based on my experience; I have tried many).
Additionally, we dive into interactive scenarios for situations and then evaluate what was good or not, and how it can be done better: communication, decisions, priorities, operations vs. strategy, hiring, firing, and delegation.
We can conduct the course in both English and Czech; I recommend using the native language so that people can think and understand the nuances better during the course.
After the course, we collect feedback and a final rating.
At the end of the session, I send my summary and potential evaluations of the participants.
