Siemens Training Recommendations Resource List Volume 1 April, 2014 | Page 7

WEB-BASED TRAINING
Leadership Essentials: Leading with Emotional Intelligence (1 hr) (lead_05_a04_bs_enus)
Recognize why emotional intelligence is important in the workplace and match emotional intelligence competencies to
their associated domains. Recognize which perception competencies need improvement and recommend techniques for
cultivating them, in a given scenario.

Time Management
BOOKS
Getting to It (Loflin, Misug, 2013)
Provides the necessary tools to accomplish the important, handle the urgent, and getting rid of the unnecessary.

The 80/20 Manager (Koch 2013)
The secret of working less and achieving more.

Strategic-Innovative Orientation
BOOKS
Early Warning (Benjamin Glad 2004)
Change strategy to meet new realities. Tell executives what they need to know-not what they want to hear. How to
interpret and react to the early signs of warning.

Strategic Planning for Dummies (Olsen 2007)
Laying the foundation for your Strategic Plan, Looking Backward to Move Forward, sizing up your current situation,
ten ways to ruin your plans and ten ways to get your plan done.

Team-Based Strategic Planning (David Fogg 2010)
Demystifying the process, 4 phases of change, preparing the team, creating buy-in, situational analysis.

WEB-BASED TRAINING
Using Strategic Thinking Skills (1 hr) (stgy_08_a03_bs_enus)
Recognize steps that can help you develop a strategic mind-set and how to use information effectively to support
strategic thinking. Describe how SWOT analysis can support strategic thinking and determine the most appropriate
trade-off in a given situation. Recognize techniques that help you think creatively.

Developing the Strategic Thinking Skill of Seeing the Big Picture (1 hr) (stgy_08_a02_bs_enus)
Recognize how to use the ideas of systems thinking to gain a sense of the big picture. Choose the approaches that best
take into account external organizational factors in a given scenario. Recognize actions that encourage big-picture
Bottom Line, Inc.
Recommendations Resource List (Siemens – Revised April, 2014)
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