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Rob Sanders
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Trainer | Coach | Systems Architect | Bridging system architecture and human behavior in high-tech teams
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Systems Engineering the Soft Side: A Structural Approach to
\nHuman Alignment in Engineering Teams
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Bio.
\n<\/strong>Bio: Rob Sanders spent 30 years as a systems architect in high-tech engineering before becoming a certified NLP Master Trainer. He works with engineering teams on communication and alignment problems that are at the heart of most technical bottlenecks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Most engineering teams have a problem they cannot find in any technical document.<\/p>\n

Decisions get made in meetings but never actually stick. Two teams that build to the same spec often still end up with parts that do not fit together. The best engineer in the room stays quiet. The same discussion happens again next week.<\/p>\n

The technical work is fine. The people are capable. So where is the problem?
\nIt is in the space between people. Who owns this decision? What did we actually agree upon? What is everyone assuming but nobody saying out loud? These are engineering problems. They just happen to be about people rather than about systems.
\nThis workshop treats them exactly that way.<\/p>\n

Participants work through three structured steps, using tools and logic that engineers already know.<\/p>\n

Step 1 starts with two short exercises that show, in less than ten minutes, why two people in the same meeting walk out with a different picture of what was discussed. Not because one of them was not paying attention. Because every person filters information differently. Once you see how that works, you can start asking better questions about your own team: where are we assuming alignment that we have never actually verified?<\/p>\n

Step 2 uses a modified FMEA approach to find the real cause of a recurring team problem. Not the surface cause, the one that gets discussed in the meeting, but the cause underneath it. Participants will work on one real problem from their own work and trace it step by step. Examples from engineering practice show how this works before participants try it themselves.<\/p>\n

Step 3 asks each participant to design one concrete change. Not a complete plan to communicate better, but one simple step they can implement the next week. Written in the same format engineers use for any other change proposal: what changes, from what to what, why, and how will you know it worked.<\/p>\n

Each participant leaves with three things: a clearer picture of where they (or their team) are running on unspoken agreements, a root cause analysis of one real problem, and one change they can actually implement next week.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Sanders Trainer | Coach | Systems Architect | Bridging system architecture and human behavior in high-tech teams Systems Engineering the Soft Side: A Structural Approach to Human Alignment in Engineering Teams Bio. Bio: Rob Sanders spent 30 years as a systems architect in high-tech engineering before becoming a certified NLP Master Trainer. He works...","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"parent":13872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15593,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15198\/revisions\/15593"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}