Dirk Swart is a Lecturer in Engineering Management at Cornell University’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to Cornell, he was the CEO of an embedded systems company for 12 years. Professor Swart has degrees in Computer Science and Negotiation.
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How to Transition to Management
The Most Important Promotion of Your Life
Friday, November 22, 2024, 1pm EST
Event Overview
For many technical people, the promotion from individual contributor to their first managerial role is the most important promotion of their lives. Yet we find that technical people — engineers — who fail to get promoted are often not failing because they are bad engineers. On the contrary, in many cases they are outstanding engineers.
So what is missing? What does it take to set yourself up for and successfully make this transition?
Join Cornell lecturer and technical entrepreneur Dirk Swart for a brisk conversation on how to elevate your managerial and business acumen to guide yourself toward a lucrative and fulfilling career.
So what is missing? What does it take to set yourself up for and successfully make this transition?
Join Cornell lecturer and technical entrepreneur Dirk Swart for a brisk conversation on how to elevate your managerial and business acumen to guide yourself toward a lucrative and fulfilling career.
What You'll Learn
- The “rules of the game” to successfully make the transition to management
- How to position yourself to increase the chances that you will be promoted
- What you need to be successful as a junior manager
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