As an engineer, you've probably noticed that while your technical knowledge is essential, at some point your ability to communicate with, motivate, and lead others is necessary to advance your career into management and leadership. Therefore, your long-term success is not just dependent on doing good technical work but also on being able to communicate your results effectively and to work on and lead teams and organizations.

In college, you weren't taught the interpersonal, management, and leadership skills required for a successful, long-term career. So where do you find this critical knowledge?

As an AIAA member, you've probably noticed that there is a scarcity of training classes in management, leadership, and interpersonal communication skills. We're attempting to do something about it, and we'd like your help.

Therefore, we'd like to know what management, leadership, and communication events and/or classes you'd take advantage of if we made them available to you through the San Francisco AIAA chapter.

This short questionnaire (probably 5 minutes max) will provide us with your preferences.

We're considering providing our local membership with two major learning opportunities. The first opportunity is to attend "regular events" on the topics of technical management and leadership, interpersonal-people skills, and communication and motivation skills. These events would be presentations or panel discussions regarding some aspect of these topics, much like many of our current evening meetings. Our second possibility would be to make available for-fee, one-day or multi-day course(s) on these topics.

We have four key points we'd like you to consider when answering the questionnaire below:

· Are you interested in your AIAA chapter providing meetings and/or courses on the topics of leadership, management, and communication?

· What event format do you prefer; lunch or dinner presentations; day-long weekend or weekday courses?

· How often would you like these events to take place; every month, every other month, or every quarter?

· What topics are you most interested in learning about; management, leadership, communication, motivation, or some other topic?

With these bulleted items mind, please respond to the following questions so we can best meet your interests.

How interested are you in attending meetings, presentations, and/or classes (if conveniently scheduled) provided by your AIAA SF chapter, on the topics of management, leadership, interpersonal people skills and communication...

How interested are you in attending "lunch" events on the topics listed in question 1 above?

How interested are you in attending "dinner" events on the topics listed in question 1 above?

How interested are you in attending "day-long courses" on the topics listed in question 1 above?

If we made available day-long courses or multi-day courses in the topics listed in question 1 above, would you prefer that they take place...

If we provided lunch or dinner events on the topics listed in question 1 on a regular basis, would you prefer these events to be .....

If the following listed topics were offered as day-long or multi-day courses by your AIAA SF chapter, which courses would you be most interested in attending? (Please rank them with 5 being of most interest and 1 begin of least interest.)

Do you have any other topics that you are specifically interested in as it applies to the advancement of your career in relation to management, leadership, communication, and motivation? Please write in your topics of interest with enough specifcity that we can seriously consider providing it/them.

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