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Personal development

Early career development programme (18 months)

An 18-month programme designed to enable employers to support early-career engineers in maximising their learning and accelerating the rate at which they realise their full potential.

517 days

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Members: £8,850 + VAT
Non-members: £9,360 + VAT
Group discounts available

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Early career development programme (18 months)
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Members:
£8,850.00 £7,965.00 Plus vat
Non Members:
£9,360.00 £8,424.00 Plus vat

Summary

An 18-month programme designed to enable employers to support early-career engineers in maximising their learning and accelerating the rate at which they realise their full potential.

The IMechE Early Career Programme lays the foundations to support early-career engineers in succeeding in their new roles. It focuses on professional development (what they don’t teach at school and university) whilst also including some specialised areas. Among the topics covered are personal effectiveness and branding, report writing, project management, innovation, influencing, business skills and Six Sigma principles.

At a glance
  • Blended learning, combining formal training, self-guided study, work-based projects and one-on-one coaching.
  • Study with like-minded professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds and industries.
  • Personal and professional development.
  • One-on-one coaching with a development coach.
  • For more information on payment options, contact training@imeche.org.

Programme structure
Term 1: Acquiring essential skills for workplace success.
Term 2: Developing the skills to increase performance beyond the programme.
Term 3: Mastery of skills and reflection on the journey taken.

Duration
18 months

Attendance
Part-time


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Who should attend?

Engineers and engineering technicians in the early stages of their careers, including graduates and apprentices.
Contributes 40 CPD hours

Key topics

  • Personal branding and self-awareness
  • Communication and influencing
  • 360 feedback
  • Business skills
  • Technical writing
  • APM Project Fundamentals
  • Leading without formal authority
  • CMI L3 Award in Principles of Leadership & Management
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt
  • Presentation skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Financial management
  • Business proposals

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Early career development programme (18 months).

  • Gillian Clark

    Gillian Clark

    With 11 years’ experience as a Process Improvement consultant, and 7 years in industry as an Improvement Specialist, Gillian has successfully applied World Class business improvement techniques – including Lean, Six Sigma and Change Management – to a wide range of industries including Public Sector, Finance, Aerospace, Automotive, Telecoms, MOD, NHS and Manufacturing.
  • John Hattam

    John Hattam

    John has built a successful consulting business in both the private and public sectors, specialising in sales and marketing, product and customer development, and business planning.
  • Penny Taylor

    Penny Taylor CEng FIMechE FWES

    Penny is a Fellow of the Institution and has over 20 years experience in the automotive industry and is an experienced trainer, coach and facilitator.
  • Andy Weber

    Andy Webber

    Andy is a professional facilitator with over 15 years of experience in coaching, mentoring, consulting and delivering training.
  • Phill Slater

    Phill Slater

    A senior level Executive Coach, business owner, organisational development practitioner and Learning & Development Consultant with more than two decades of experience working with business leaders across multiple industries in more than 20 countries.
  • Fiona Pawley

    Fiona Pawley

    Performance Optimisation Coach, specialising in Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Development, with diverse experience working with engineering, automotive and motorsport organisations including Formula 1.
  • Paul Taylor

    Paul Taylor

    Paul Taylor has spent the last 20 years developing and delivering leadership programmes for global corporations. Getting up close and working with individuals urgently seeking answers to real-world challenges led him to delve deeper into how to achieve results and career success.

In-house and bespoke training

Tell us your team's CPD needs and we'll come to you with a specialised training programme, customised for your engineering sector.
Contact our advisors if you need help finding the most appropriate training for your team.

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At a glance

  • Duration:
    517 days
  • Location:
    London
  • CPD Hours:
    40.0

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Available dates for Early career development programme (18 months)

517 day course

London
16 Apr 2024 - 15 Sep 2025
London
7 Oct 2024 - 28 Mar 2025

Require a different date or location? Or want to train a group in house?

We can customise any of our courses and deliver them in-house, for your entire team. It could also save you money, especially as you would save travel time.

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    Our Communication and Influencing workshop is one of our most popular. Participants recognise the value the content provides to every aspect of their professional and personal lives.

Train your team

Tell us your team’s development needs and we’ll come to you with a specialised training programme, customised for your organisation.

What options are available?

  • Off the shelf – we can deliver any of our training courses at your chosen location, providing you with a cost-effective and efficient solution
  • Tailored courses– our personalised programmes can help you work through issues specific to your team or sector and equip you with the practical tools you need to move forward
  • Blended programmes – we use a range of delivery methods, development subjects and performance resources to ensure your team have the knowledge and skills they need to help your business thrive

More about in-house and tailored training.

Offers and bundles

We have a range of options to help you maximise your training budgets.

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Some of the companies we've worked with

  • Alten
  • AMH Material Handling
  • Avara Foods
  • bmt
  • Bombardier
  • Bombardier
  • Frazer Nash
  • Gas Networks Ireland
  • International Nuclear Services
  • JCB
  • Martin Baker
  • National Composited Centre
  • Network Rail
  • Smurfit Kappa
  • sse

Our training acumen

  • Over 30 years of experience delivering training
  • More than 200 courses designed for engineers
  • Over 10,000 engineers trained each year
  • Trusted by over 800 companies
  • Business solutions delivered in 48 countries

Average customer rating: 4.75 out of 5


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