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Leadership training for engineers, by Gradeline

Promoted to manager. Now what?

You were promoted for your engineering. From now on, you are judged on your people and your numbers. Gradeline Leadership is leadership and management training for engineers in Malaysia, being built as four rungs from first-time manager to the board. Each rung is designed to end with work you can put to use in your own job.

In development: no dates or prices yet

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Register interest See the four rungs

Not an engineer? See first-time manager training for any field.

  1. Where you start: the rung you are on
  2. 01First-time ManagerA 90-day team plan
  3. 02Commercial AcumenA capex business case
  4. 03Leading the FunctionA one-page strategy
  5. 04Board ReadinessA board paper
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The leadership ladder

Four rungs, from first-time manager to the board.

Start at the rung you are on. Each rung is a short leadership training programme for the step you are taking now. You bring a real problem from your own work and leave with the finished piece of work.

01

First-time Manager

First-time manager training for engineers. For senior engineers making the move from engineer to manager, to lead the team they used to work in.

  • Delegating work you could do faster yourself
  • Planning and prioritising a team's week
  • Performance conversations, including the difficult ones
  • Managing the peers you used to sit beside

Designed to end withA 90-day plan for your team, and a difficult conversation rehearsed before you have it.

02

Commercial Acumen

Finance for non-finance managers, built for engineers. For project managers, senior engineers and section heads who now answer for a budget.

  • Reading a P&L and a cash flow statement
  • A capex business case, written in the language finance reads
  • Construction and engineering contract management: variations and claims
  • Negotiation skills with suppliers, contractors and clients

Designed to end withA capex business case for a real project at your company.

03

Leading the Function

Strategic planning and change management for functional heads. For heads of department who now set the direction others deliver.

  • A strategy for one function, on one page
  • Change management that outlasts the launch memo
  • Stakeholder management across a large organisation
  • Making decisions from data

Designed to end withA one-page strategy for your department, defended to a panel.

04

Board Readiness

From technical report to board paper. For senior leaders who now write for the board, and new directors. Practical work, not a director qualification.

  • How to write a board paper that asks for a clear decision
  • Explaining technical risk in a board paper
  • Reading the numbers as a director does
  • Corporate governance and directors' duties: the questions to put to your company secretary and counsel

Designed to end withA board paper on a real decision, reviewed by a mock board.

When the years are there

Chartered Manager (CMgr). Once you have the years in management that the Chartered Management Institute asks for, you may be eligible for its CMgr assessment. The Chartered Route for CMgr prepares you for it, and CMI's conditions are on that page in CMI's own words. These rungs are Gradeline training, not CMI's, and they do not count towards CMgr. Your years of managing do. See the CMgr programme

Masterclasses

Engineers write to be correct. Boards read to decide.

Short, single-skill sessions at any rung, built for technical people. Most close the gap between those two sentences: business writing, presentation skills and communication training.

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Writing for decision-makers

Memos, proposals and board papers that get a decision at the first reading.

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Presenting technical risk to a board

What could go wrong, how likely it is and what it would cost, explained to a room that is not technical.

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Executive communication

Saying less, in the right order, to the people who decide.

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Coaching and mentoring

Growing the engineers behind you, so you can step up.

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Leading across cultures

Working with clients, principals and site teams from across the region.

For teams

Leadership training, run inside your company.

For HR, L&D and heads of function looking for a leadership training provider in Malaysia that builds for engineers first. Every format can use your own projects as the material, so the work done in the room is work your company needed anyway. Promoting people from other functions too? See leadership training for every function.

Four formats are planned. None is running yet.

In-house cohort

One rung of the ladder, run for your people at your office.

Action-learning sprint

A team works on a real company problem over several weeks, then presents it to its own leadership.

Open classes

One or two seats at a time, alongside people from other companies.

Executive coaching

One to one, for leaders at the function and board rungs.

There are no prices yet. Tell us about your team and we will come back to you when there are.

Talk to us about your team

Founders' Track

For founders and first-time directors.

Built for technical founders who now answer to investors and a board. It is a training track, so there is no investment or grant attached.

Fundraising readiness

Your pitch, your data room, and the numbers an investor will test first.

Unit economics and runway

What each customer is worth, and how long the cash lasts.

The first ten hires

Who to hire first, how to lead them and how to keep them.

Governance for a young board

A board that helps, from the first meeting.

Designed to end with your own fundraising pack and a first board agenda.

Register interest

Hear first when your programme opens.

Tick what you want to hear about. We will message you only about those, and only once each has a date and a price. Nothing to pay and nothing to commit to.

Who is this for?
Your field

So what we send you fits your kind of work.

Programmes

Gradeline Leadership is in development. It will be delivered with a partner to be announced, not by the Chartered Route mentor team. No dates, prices or certificates are offered yet.