- Achieving Role and Goal Clarity
- The job of the supervisor
- Checklist for working effectively with your boss
- What a supervisor should expect from his manager
- What staff want from their supervisors
- Planning a productive goal setting and role negotiation meeting with your boss
- Receiving feedback
– How to be a Better Communicator
- The role of communication in modern organizations
- How to use communication channels effectively
- How to overcome communication barriers
- How to deal with others for success
- Listening skills enhancement
- Body language
- Staff Motivation
- Understanding what motivates people
- Motivational techniques for greater commitment and output
- Using the weapons of influence
- On –the –job training
- Coaching
- Giving praise effectively
-performance Management
– Delegation
- Performance appraisals that work
- Counselling for performance improvement
- Saying ‘no’ skilfully
- Standards of performance
- How to set performance objectives
- Performance management: a continuous process
- Constructive confrontation skills
- Choosing An Appropriate Leadership Style
- The who, what, when, where, why and how of delegation
- Delegating effectively
- Choosing the appropriate style in different situations
- Working With The Team
- The effect of different leadership styles on the team climate
- Managers versus leaders
- Behaviour, Attitude & Beliefs
- Cultural Context Inventory
– Managing Time and Stress To Improve Efficiency
- Group Dynamics
- Group Think
- Team leaders road map
- Process for tackling a new task systematically with the team
- ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ tasks
- Types of teams & their unique features
- Personal Action Planning
- Understanding stress in self and others
- Planning, priority setting and dealing with crises
- Managing interruptions and access
- Time stealers and personal style
- What I will do and why
- How and by when
- Contracting with colleagues for mutual support
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
- The ‘Rational Decision Making’ model
- The ‘Conflict Decision Making’ model
- The decision making grid
- ‘Fish bone’ analysis
- ‘Force-field’ analysis