Day One
The Foundations of Management: roles, responsibilities and personal style
- Understanding the wider working environment that impacts the organization
- Identifying the characteristics of good management
- Making the transition to management: new skills, fears and expectations
- What Managers Do? Key competencies, behaviors and activities in the manager’s role
- Psychometric assessment of personality and impact on management style
- Identifying your management styles, blind spots and adapting behavior to achieve maximum benefit
- What mistakes do new managers make and how to avoid them
Day Two
Managing the performance of self and others: planning personal and team priorities
- A focus on Continuous Improvement: Kaizen: improving , self , team and organization
- The role of performance management in organizations
- Communicating team purpose and clarifying personal priorities and contributions
- Establishing SMART objectives for individuals / team and how to measure them
- How to plan and prepare for successful performance reviews
- Understanding the implications of assertive, passive and aggressive management behaviors and their outcomes
Day Three
Building High Performing Teams using the power of diversity
- Identifying the characteristics of Highly Effective Teams and of Dysfunctional Teams
- Stages in team development and the managers role
- Appreciating team and harnessing diversity: team roles and their identification and application
- Team audit: exercise to evaluate current team performance and identify strength and potential areas for action
- Problem solving in teams; Making structured and creative decisions
- Managing people through change - the impact of change on the individual and it management
Day Four
The Manager as a Communicator, Coach and Developer of People
- Building trust: a critical in managing effectively
- How to give feedback: a tool for development and progression
- Using a feedback planner for difficult conversations and managing potential conflict
- Coaching for personal and team success using a model
- Key communication skills for coaching and management: listening, Influencing and Written communications
- How to Motivate and your people
Day Five
Time Management, Delegation and Communicating with Impact
- Managing Time Effectively: Reviewing the most common time management failings and determining priorities"
- Delegation for empowerment: How to delegate to motivate staff and raise performance
- Communicating with impact: the characteristics of powerful presentations - guidelines for good practice
- Personal SWOT review of learning
- Action plans. What objectives and actions do I seek to implement/achieve on return to the workplace