Enhanced Operations Leadership Essentials
COURSE OVERVIEW
Serial 1 | 26 Nov 2024 | Online Live | Full - Day
Serial 2 | 28 Nov 2024 | Online Live | Full - Day
Serial 3 | 03 Dec 2024 | Online Live | Full - Day
Serial 4 | 04 Dec 2024 | Online Live | Full - Day
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Registration Open | Closes 25 November 2024
Focused on enabling levels 1 - 3 (frontline team leaders, managers, supervisors, senior managers and directors) with the essential operations leadership, execution and management skills to align, direct and maneuver their industry business unit teams.
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McMaster's Enhanced Operations Leadership Essentials (EOLE) course uses a global industry-led approach to equip participants with a deployable operations execution framework developed in line with industry best practices. The EOLE course, in partnership with The Strong Link draws best practices, approaches, tools & strategies from senior leaders at Northrop Grumman, Airbus, Bombardier, Volvo, UD Trucks, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Lockheed Martin. The EOLE course enables new & recently advanced leaders by defining their start state, aligning a development path and enhancing leadership, operations, execution and management essential skills - within an industry 4.0 environment.
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This course is designed for leaders within or entering front-line teams & business units looking to enhance their skills, grow their networks, build confidence and establish a development pathway for their teams to meet current and near-horizon scaling challenges.
Slide-Free Learning
No slide-based learning - instead, we utilize an enhanced virtual customizable framework. Learn, customize, and deploy off one framework, enabling rapidly deployable solutions.
Live Online Teaching
Real-time interactive conference-style education brought to you anywhere.
Earn a McMaster Certificate
Walk away with a McMaster Certificate and practical skills to think and problem-solve like a leader.
Skilled Industry Experts
Hear from academic instructors and experienced industry experts across disciplines.
Networking
Grow your professional network by connecting with like-minded business leaders across multiple industries.
Learning Objectives
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Define, assess and craft an understanding of current personal & team operations execution gaps.
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Obtain industry-led (context-driven) execution, leadership and management solutions designed to drive an impact within 1-3 months.
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Enhance content retention and deployment utilizing a tailored execution framework which can be re-taught or re-delivered to other stakeholders within their teams.
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Define and establish infrastructure fundamentals within the Assess-Plan-Brief-Do-Check-Act execution framework.
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Define current leadership, operations and management execution approaches, identifying gaps & opportunities.
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Understand, compare and contrast high-performance & standard operating teams' best practices.
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Understand when and how to transition execution approaches enabling bottom-up, planning, intent-based execution and accountability,
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Understand how to engage support & enabling teams such as change agents, digitization subject matter experts, engineering, methods and Andon teams.
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Understand how to deploy shift-integrated, daily coaching and mentorship performance management to sustain and enable employee development and accountability.
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Understand how to consistently deploy short-sprint-based collaborative performance management to enable consistent performance improvements over time.
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Understand risk and disruption management frameworks used to anticipate, define, and maneuver within chaotic environments with multi-disciplinary/parallel teams while minimizing disruption impacts.
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Understand how to utilize a rapid, short-term, group-based decision-making framework to drive team-based micro-change projects consistently.
8
Hours of Training
1
Day Live
3
Panellists
Agenda
8:30am - 12:00pm Est​
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Introduction and orientation to the course and framework tools.
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Group-based assignments to enable cross-functional collaboration, learning and solutions.
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Introduction to execution framework, supporting content and tools.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Est​
1:00pm - 4:30pm Est
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Completion of execution framework customization and deployment plan.
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Culminating Panelist discussion Q&A with senior industry leaders.
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Course After-Action-Review (AAR) & feedback questionnaire.
Who Should Attend?
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New or recently advanced leadership roles
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Team Leaders, Managers, Supervisors, Directors.
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Skilled workers who may act in a leadership role within their teams
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Graduate Students
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Undergraduate Students
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Industry-Engaged Content & Panellists
The execution framework for the EOLE course has been developed, drawing the best practices, solutions, resources and tools from the leaders below. On the day of your course, you can expect to engage with up to three leaders during our end-course panellist's session, sharing questions and answers to enable the deployment of your customized execution frameworks.
Speakers are subject to change based on availability.
Admission Details
Participants should have relevant work experience or education in their industry field; a college or university education is an asset but not required.
Please contact the Program Lead if you have specific questions about the background knowledge required to maximize your benefits from the program.
Tuition & Fees
Please note costs noted below are in CAD dollars, and do not include the 13% HST - Harmonized Sales Tax charged for Canadian Applicants.​
Qualifying Association Members
Course Enrolment
Course Certificate
$500 CAD
McMaster Alumni, Staff
Course Enrolment
Course Certificate
$500 CAD
Regular Cost
Course Enrolment
Course Certificate
$750 CAD
Testimonials
Hear from previous participants.
Program Lead
Industry Operations Leadership & Management
PROGRAM LEAD
Ashan Corea
McMaster University
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology
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