Management Never Listens To Me - How to Persuade Them To Take On Your Ideas

8 Days

Cohort-based Course

Need to convince management to implement new techniques or change projects? Frustrated with your manager shooting down your ideas?

Management Never Listens To Me - How to Persuade Them To Take On Your Ideas

8 Days

Cohort-based Course

Need to convince management to implement new techniques or change projects? Frustrated with your manager shooting down your ideas?

Hosted by

Adelina Chalmers and John Crickett

Breaking down the barriers between engineers and the rest of the business.

Adelina Chalmers and John Crickett

Breaking down the barriers between engineers and the rest of the business.

Course overview

Learn how to effectively communicate technical knowledge to non-technical people

You are invited to bring your own real-world scenarios which you would like to discuss and work through on the course.

- All of the scenarios used will be your real-world situations.

- This is a 100% interactive course where we help you with your real-world situation.

- No boring handouts or lectures - it's hands-on advice and coaching from someone who normally coaches and advises engineering executives in companies from 10 to 100,000 staff.

The course will help you:

1. Identify if this is the right idea to pitch to your manager.

2. Understand why they previously rejected your idea and how to prevent this.

3. Convey complex technical information in a way that even non-technical audiences will appreciate and value.

4. Get other people excited and engaged about your tech expertise.

Who is this course for

CTO / VP Engineering / Head of /Director of Engineering

Engineering leaders with a technical or scientific background.

Software/Hardware Engineers, Developers, Scientists who want to influence upwards, downwards or sideways in their organisation

Anyone with a technical or scientific background wishing to understand how to get their ideas appreciated.

CTO / VP Engineering / Head of /Director of Engineering

Engineering leaders with a technical or scientific background.

Software/Hardware Engineers, Developers, Scientists who want to influence upwards, downwards or sideways in their organisation

Anyone with a technical or scientific background wishing to understand how to get their ideas appreciated.

Project/Product/Programme Managers who are scientists or engineers

What you’ll get out of this course

The know-how to present your ideas to management in a way that gets them interested and wins their agreement.

You will be able to see why your message wasn't understood before and exactly what to change so it is understood in future.

The confidence to know that you are presenting the right idea in the right way to get to 'yes'.

Enabling you to engage your audience and influence their decision making.

What people are saying

Adelina is excellent at making soft skills practical and accessible for engineers, physicists, and other geeks too!

Jason de Villiers

Software Engineering Manager, Apple

Fujitsu had the pleasure of inviting the awesome Adelina Chalmers, aka The Geek Whisperer to our Ada Lovelace celebration, which is focussed on supporting and developing female technical talent. Adelina gave smart, down to earth and practical advice on how to handle difficult conversations at all levels.

Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Chief Security Advisor EMEA, Microsoft

I never expect much from soft skills training but during this one I had two distinct "why haven't I thought of this before" moments providing noticeable improvement of my understanding how human interaction works... For better or worse, I now point out less often than I used to when people are being stupid.

Pawel Moll

Distinguished Engineer, Arm

Adelina is a very skilled mentor, who I had the greatest pleasure to meet at Arm, while attending one of her beautiful social skills training sessions. Highly reccomended, especially when it come to learning how to manage conversations in any eventuality.

Matteo Maria Andreozzi

Principal Engineer, Arm

I always find her sessions interesting and thought provoking. Her advice stimulates new perspectives and hearing the discussion and questions from colleagues is also illuminating. People really open up in Adelina's discussions in a way they don’t in the normal run of business.

Jennifer Bray

Technical Product Manager, Amazon Sidewalk

Meet your instructor

Adelina Chalmers

Adelina Chalmers D.P.S.I., Dip H.E. cuts straight to the heart of the matter when advising Chief Technology Officers in tech companies of 10 - 100,00 staff and goes down in the trenches with them.

She is on Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in Tech of 2021, 2022 and 2023.

She has worked with scientists and engineers from Software Engineer to CEO/CSO/CTO who work for: Atos, Fujitsu, ARM, Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Compare the Market, Microsoft and hundreds of scale-ups.

John Crickett

John has worked as both a senior individual contributor (Staff+) and a senior manager (VP Engineering, Head of Software Development) in a range of organisations from small startups to big multinationals.

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