Master the 4 Core Principles of Building Strong Partnerships

Details

1-day course

CPD Credit: 6 hours, 3. Professional responsibility and leadership

Course Delivery Options

Calendar-icon-blue-resizedOpen Course: Available on scheduled dates. Contact cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie or call 01 665 1305, or check our CPD Calendar here.

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Course Overview

Participants will learn how to be masterful in building Strong Partnerships using the T.E.A.M. Model.

T= Trust building

Focus: How to establish credibility, reliability, and build win-win positive relationships 

Sample Tools: Trust Equation, Trust Equation Scorecard

E = Empowerment

Focus: Creating environments where partners feel capable, valued, and motivated.

Sample Tools: The 7Cs of Empowerment Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for empowering others.

A = Ambition 

Focus: Cultivating individual and collective ambition through shared purpose and goals.

Sample Tool: Vision-Goal Alignment Map - linking personal ambitions with partnership objectives / Case Study 

M = Mind Your Energy

Focus: Managing energy levels to sustain high performing partnerships and avoid burnout.

Sample Tool: The Energy Balance Sheet - a practical exercise to evaluate energy inflows and outflows, and create a sustainable energy strategy.

Course Aim

Teach participants practical skills to build strong successful partnerships. 

Learning objectives 

  • Learn practical tools to build strong business partnerships
  • Practice using these tools during the programme
  • Create a personal action plan to apply the principles and tools in your day to day work 

Who Should Attend?

Anybody that wants to build stronger business partnerships including: 

  • Project leaders 
  • Team leaders
  • Team members 
  • Individual contributors
  • HR professionals 

Trainer’s Profile

Jay Chopra PhD

Jay is a former Fortune 100 executive, specializing in leadership development, teaming, inclusion, innovation, energy management and culture change. Jay holds a PhD in science. He has extensive experience as an organisational development consultant having travelled to 20+ countries to work with various multi-national organisations - routinely operating at senior leadership level.

Jay leads the Making Shift Happen Hybrid Team, with resources in Europe & US. The Making Shift Happen boutique consultancy team is focused on improving performance by making work more human. He is a master certified Whole Brain®?facilitator and is certified in executive coaching, Hogan, EQ, 360 feedback, Insights & Realise 2 Strengths.

Jay’s x-factor is his strong belief in inclusion as key business enabler. He developed this belief from his personal experience of building-a-bridge within himself between his Irish & Indian heritage, while growing up in what was then a homogenous Ireland. He is a member of The Society For Diversity. Jay is passionate about personal wellbeing and believes that wellbeing is the fundamental fuel for innovative organisations.

Career Highlights:

Served on the Innovation Leadership Team for large multinational - organisational development role focused on creating an inclusive, innovative culture by developing inclusive & innovative leaders, teams and projects - scale: 20,000 global staff, 5+ years

Co-founded boutique consultancy, Making Shift Happen - works with organisations such as Merck/MSD, GSK, UCC, Capital Investment Group, Suntory, Teleflex, Zoetis, Abbvie, Pfizer, Dr. Martens and Exxon Mobil

Co-led the design and implementation of an inclusive, innovative culture change program across a large multinational org using bottom up and top down approaches-scale: 20,000 global staff, 5+ years

Delivered 1000’s of hrs executive coaching over last 10 years, including full executive team to president level in multinational arena

Designed and delivered inclusive teaming workshops - 300+ workshops up to executive team level in multinationals

Designed and implemented a culture change program to create a Great Place To Work at a site of a large multinational. Focus Areas: Innovation & Entrepreneurial Thinking, Wellbeing, Inspirational Leadership, Diversity and Teaming - scale: 1000+ staff

Trained 300+ Innovation Coaches via inclusive bootcamp experiences
Regularly delivers speaking engagements to large audiences e.g. American Chamber
Serial Innovator, helping to deliver mega-million dollar innovations

Testimonials

  • “Jay's belief in Creativity tools is infectious and provided me with a real and effective means of tapping into the potential of teams.”
  • “Jay creates an atmosphere that is relaxed, authentic and you will actually come away with some real tools. This session was a breath of fresh air even through the virtual world.”
  • “Jay is an excellent and talented Innovation Trainer.”
  • “I participated in a workshop that Jay led with a senior leadership team. He is extremely skilled at facilitating teams through leadership and team effectiveness training to work in ways that are more collaborative, communicative , innovative and impactful.”

Please contact the CPD Training Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options.