Effective Time Management, Communication and Leadership for Engineers and Managers
Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, Port of Spain,
18-20 Nov 2025
Given a lot of exercises and group activities to be done, this workshop is ideally to be conducted in-person. Designed for all individuals involved in engineering, supervision, logistics or maintenance, etc., its focus is on the necessary time management, communication and people skills to foster maximum productivity, highest quality and best morale.
Ideal candidates are typically engineers, managers, supervisors, or team leaders. The workshop materials apply to executives from supply chain and stores too. This workshop is also recommended for individuals being considered for advancement in all these disciplines.
Our promise for this program is that your engineers and others will be more effective and have better quality of work and life. This effectiveness would gradually translate to lower turnover and increased productivity for the teams they are part of.
Every learner receives a customized workbook for the class.
Some of the things you will learn:
- Systematic techniques to improve time and meeting management
- How to know your strengths and weaknesses (and those of your workgroup)
- Proven methods for handling problems with difficult employees, vendors, and coworkers
- Specific ways to make the change from technician to leader quickly and effectively
- To increase the amount and value of work you get done through time management techniques
- How to deal with the special challenges of supervising friends and older employees successfully and sensitively
- Tried and true guidelines for hiring and retaining the best employees
- How to optimize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses
- Proven techniques to teach you how to control your reactions in high-stress situations and to help you make the best decisions at those critical moments
- The three basic rules of managing teams so that you encourage your workforce to perform at the highest level possible
- The best way to present what you have learned from this seminar so that management will see it (and you) in a positive light
Ably Led by International Expert Trainer
Joel Levitt
President
Springfield Resources, USA
Workshop Format
This class will be highly interactive and participative. Exercises and Group Activities will form an important part of the class. Participants will be encouraged to discuss and reflect on their own team’s practices and ways to apply what they have learned in the class to their work.
Certificate of Achievement
On successful completion of this course, you will be awarded Certificate of Achievement bearing the signatures from both the Trainer and the Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavour and serve towards your professional advancement.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Day One
Motivation
Leaders work through other people. Effective leadership requires a balance of sound technical, management, and people skills. The workshop begins by examining how motivation works.
- Stories about de-motivation at the workgroup, department, and company level
- The probable structure of motivation
- Exercise every day, motivational techniques, and situational motivational interventions
- Choosing techniques that you are already strong in
Building a Learning Culture
- It starts with your attitude toward mistakes
- Cultivate a positive culture
Productivity Improvement through Engineering Time Management (ETM)
There is never enough time in the day. This section features specific time management techniques designed for leaders. These include the seven daily habits of highly successful supervisors, personal planning, improved productivity, and resources for additional focus.
- Four concepts that will transform your attitude toward your time
- Seven daily habits that super successful people use
- Ten ideas to help you deal with time killers
- Self-test in time management
- Choosing techniques to improve time management
Personality Traits
Every person brings something unique to the team. A self-assessment test is provided and explained. In this test, the students will determine how each of them handles time, makes decisions, interacts with others, and their attention to detail. These insights will help each person interact more effectively with others. This test will reveal to participants how they perform as coworkers, where they require development, and where they have weaknesses that can strengthen.
- Exercise: Assess and score your personality style
Coping with Difficult People
Successful dealing with difficult people and situations is a key skill. This chapter explains how a person can navigate a process to maximize the likelihood of a positive outcome.
- Identifying difficult situations for YOU
- Exercise in coping with challenging situations or people
Day Two
Smorgasbord of Leadership Ideas and Approaches
- Transition to leadership
- Orientation, new hires
- Discipline
- Special Supervision issues.
- How to make decisions
- Delegation
- Exercise and presentations on local special issues
Teaching and Coaching
Issue: How to run a 21st-century factory with skills from the 90s? Included are preparation worksheets, checklists, techniques, sources of materials, ideas on maximizing the benefits of training for individuals, and methods for measuring the effectiveness of training.
- Test of knowledge in training areas
- Example of a training situation
- The training function in maintenance management
- Types of training
- Steps in the process to develop training and test the need for training
- Organizing training effort
- 22 guideposts for adult training
- Categories for sources of training
- Methods of training to consider
- Running the training: considerations
Workshop in Teaching and Coaching: Students will use worksheets and checklists to design a real-world skills training exercise. Students can use the materials they prepare in this exercise when they get back to their facility.
Meeting Management
Productivity Enhancement. Agreements to improve meeting effectiveness. Steps to improve meetings. Checklists for every stage of meeting preparation, execution, and follow-up.
- Ten lessons to have great meetings
- Meeting improvement choice
Computerization, IIoT, Sensors and AI
- CMMS Facts of Life
- Being on Top of Work Orders-why and What
- Goal of PM
- Getting PM done right
- PdM and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things – Sensors)
- The field is going CRAZY! (how to use AI right now)
Day Three
Problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis
Problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis are among the best ways to improve the attitude of the engineering department and enhance the service delivered to customers.
- Nature of problems
- General principles of root cause analysis
- Root cause analysis techniques
- 5 Whys
- RCA problem analysis
Quality
The quality and safety of work are related. They are both essential to any maintenance function. Look at what contributes to both and how to ensure both quality and safety
- Quality in maintenance
- How to ensure quality
- W. E. Deming’s’ fourteen points for maximum business effectiveness
- The seven deadly diseases
- Some additional obstacles
- Safety and reliability
Workshop in Communication
How are you as a communicator? Enhance your ability to convey your point clearly and effectively to maintenance workers—this exercise helps improve your communication skills.
- Test of verbal skills
- Body language
- Cross-cultural barriers to communication
- Inventory of current communications skills
- Case studies/role playing
Putting All Together
Develop a plan for success. Improve your maintenance I.Q. and increase your value to your department through selected readings and resources.
- Review of all topics covered
- How to improve your maintenance IQ
- Reading list
- Action plan
Wrap Up
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
About Your Expert Trainer
Joel Levitt
President
Springfield Resources, USA
Joel Levitt is a world-class trainer for engineering professionals. He has trained more than 17,000 maintenance leaders from 3000 organizations in 26 countries in over 550 sessions. Since 1980 he has been the President of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that services clients of all sizes on a wide range of maintenance issues.
He has 39 years of experience in many facets of maintenance including process control design, source equipment inspector, electrician, field service technician, maritime operations and property management. Prior to that, Levitt worked for a CMMS vendor and as an owner/manager in manufacturing.
He is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences and has written many popular maintenance management texts. He has also published over 200 articles on the topic. Levitt has served on the safety board of ANSI, Small Business United, National Family Business Council and on the executive committee of the Miquon School. He is a member of AFE and Vice President of the Philadelphia chapter.
Some of the Popular Titles written by Joel Levitt
- Leadership Skills for Maintenance Supervisors and Managers
- Managing Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages 2004
- Handbook of Maintenance Management 2009
- Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Coordination 2010
- The Complete Handbook of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance 2008
- Managing Factory Maintenance 2004
- Lean Maintenance 2008
- Facilities Management- Maintenance of Buildings
What organizations say about Joel Levitt’s training!
“I have found Joel Levitt to be the most realistic and practical trainer I know. He can relate with the whole facility from the shop floor to the boardroom.”
- Holcim (US) Inc.
“Extremely experienced & knowledgeable facilitator. Real life pertinent examples.“
- Nealco Properties Trinidad
“The program makes you a better Maintenance person.”
- Maritime Authority Trinidad
“Instructor obviously very knowledgeable in the field and communicates effectively.”
- T&TEC Trinidad
“Good content very practical applicable to our maintenance practices.”
- Powergen
“My entire Maintenance department has changed for the better because of what I have taken from these classes.”
- AXSYS Technologies, Inc.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Ideal candidates are typically engineers, managers, supervisors, or team leaders. The workshop materials apply to executives from supply chain and stores too. This workshop is also recommended for individuals being considered for advancement in all these disciplines.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Given a lot of exercises and group activities to be done, this workshop is ideally to be conducted in-person. Designed for all individuals involved in engineering, supervision, logistics or maintenance, etc., its focus is on the necessary time management, communication and people skills to foster maximum productivity, highest quality and best morale.
Our promise for this program is that your engineers and others will be more effective and have better quality of work and life. This effectiveness would gradually translate to lower turnover and increased productivity for the teams they are part of.
Every learner receives a customized workbook for the class.
Some of the things you will learn
- Systematic techniques to improve time and meeting management
- How to know your strengths and weaknesses (and those of your workgroup)
- Proven methods for handling problems with difficult employees, vendors, and coworkers
- Specific ways to make the change from technician to leader quickly and effectively
- To increase the amount and value of work you get done through time management techniques
- How to deal with the special challenges of supervising friends and older employees successfully and sensitively
- Tried and true guidelines for hiring and retaining the best employees
- How to optimize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses
- Proven techniques to teach you how to control your reactions in high-stress situations and to help you make the best decisions at those critical moments
- The three basic rules of managing teams so that you encourage your workforce to perform at the highest level possible
- The best way to present what you have learned from this seminar so that management will see it (and you) in a positive light
COURSE FORMAT
This class will be highly interactive and participative. Exercises and Group Activities will form an important part of the class. Participants will be encouraged to discuss and reflect on their own team’s practices and ways to apply what they have learned in the class to their work.
Certificate of Achievement
On successful completion of this course, you will be awarded Certificate of Achievement bearing the signatures from both the Trainer and the Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavour and serve towards your professional advancement.
Pre-Course Questionnaire
A pre-course questionnaire will be sent to you some days before the course through which you can raise your specific areas of interest. The trainer will review and analyze these in advance and address them during the course, seeking to satisfy your learning needs.
Testimonials
“I wish to say that Neoedge and their instructor/trainer possess a wealth of information and knowledge on the subject matter, and were very capable in disseminating the knowledge, thus giving the us, the participants, a better understanding and purpose of some of the daily tasks we performed. We appreciate their efforts, and look forward to other sessions with them.” - PetroJam
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
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For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
The training will be held at the hotel stated below. The above fee does not include accommodation or travel costs.
It is recommended to book the hotel rooms early as there are only limited rooms available at discounted corporate room rate.
Kindly contact or email to the following for guest room reservation, quoting “Neoedge Training” for discounted corporate rate:
Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre
1B Lady Young Road, Belmont
Port of Spain Trinidad, W.I
Tel: +868 624 3211 Fax: +868 625 9710
Email: reservations.trinidad@hilton.com
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