Overview
This program offers current or potential managers the opportunity to focus on a variety of topics that professionals in management may overlook due to the consistently high work load and pressure of managing a team or department.
The course is specifically designed to allow the delegate to focus on wider managerial issues rather than day-day; the topics discussed will allow the delegate to gain an all-inclusive view of their organisation while learning new tools that can be used to create productive personal and organisational goals.
Coverage
- Developing and Communicating your strategy to the wider audience
- Essential management skills
- Organisational infrastructure analysis
- Performance measurement and feedback
- Deciphering organisational culture
- Delegation techniques
- Influencing your group to produce effective results
- Develop a strong understanding of the underlying principles of management
Objectives
- Understand the top performance measurement methodologies
- Learn a wide range of delegation and influence techniques
- Discuss individual organisations cultures and its effect on employee performance
- Learn how to motivate your team
- Evaluate the impact of competition and external factors on an organisation
How This Helps Your Organisation?
- Improve productivity through improved mentoring, coaching and training techniques
- Strong understanding of the underlying principles of management
- Develop a greater understanding of the teams strengths and weaknesses
- Increased confidence and better decision making
- Increased experience in liaising with senior management within your organisation
- Grow new motivation and dynamism
How This Helps You Personally?
- Evaluate your own style of management and where improvements can be made
- Learn the power of influence and how to make colleagues more agreeable to your ideas
- Confidently deal with issues of conflict
- Better time management
- Increased experience in liaising with senior management within your organisation
- Grow new motivation and dynamism
Course Structure
Strategic Positioning
- The reality of modern businesses
- Stakeholder analysis
- Porter 5 Forces analysis
- Forecasting industry trends
- Creating and sharing a strategy with management
Managerial Resourcing & Performance
- Matching aims and objectives across the whole organisation
- A Performance measurement
- How to turn measurements into action and improvement
- Coaching poor performers
- Self-learning for managerial prosperity
- Mentoring and influencing on all levels of the organisational hierarchy
- Managing risk
Organisational Behaviour
- How culture and moral values can influence an organisation
- What is considered the ‘norm’ within an organisation
- Group dynamics analysis
- Delegation and responsibility assignment
- The underlying principles of Human Resources and its relationship with managers
- Importance of proper appraisal and constructive feedback
Essential Management Skills: Prioritizing, Time Management and Delegation
- Balancing objectives and organising by importance
- How to create time from ‘thin air’
- Personal goal setting
- Activities that produce revenue
- Batching production
- Management case study analysis
- Delegating to your team to improve efficiency
The relationship between management and leadership
- The underlying principles of influence and how to use it to your advantage
- 6 secrets of negotiation in business
- Managing senior and stakeholder expectation
- Motivation strategies and techniques
- Ethical leadership
- What is your personal leadership style?
- How to apply team building exercises into your plan
- Strategic and Tactical decision making