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Leadership & People Management Skills (MAN02)

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    Description

    As international companies move towards a flatter, team-based structure, supervisors and team leaders need to learn to combine fulltime operational responsibilities with leadership roles. This practical activity-based course is aimed at developing essential leadership and people management skills in people who are relatively new to this demanding role.

    Course Level: All Levels
    Duration: 5 days
    Instructor: Paul Keighley

    Designed for you, if you are...

    • A relatively new leader or supervisor
    • Preparing for a management position

    The focus is on essential ‘need to know’ leadership skills and will improve ability and confidence when dealing with new or difficult situations.

    How we build your confidence

    The majority of this course involves group activities, exercises, case studies and simulations designed to give you practice and build your confidence in managing yourself and your people.

    The benefits from attending

    By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding of:

    • How to prepare and make the adjustments necessary for a smooth transition into leadership
    • Assessing your own leadership capabilities, challenges and potential growth areas
    • Managing yourself and your time more effectively to achieve your goals
    • Developing SMARTer goals and action plans
    • Applying effective communication techniques and conduct productive business meetings
    • How to motivate and encourage ‘team spirit’ among your staff
    • Developing delegation skills and assignment action plans
    • Developing coaching skills and using effective coaching techniques to improve staff performance
    • Applying a systematic problem-solving and decision making approach
    • Managing conflict and stress constructively

    Topics

    Managing Yourself and Your Time
    • Managing yourself
    • Reactive and proactive management
    • Four quadrants of time management
    • Your time challenges
    • Putting it into practice: Managing your In-Tray

    Moving up to Leadership and Supervision
    • Characteristics of successful leaders/supervisors
    • Leadership styles - matching your leadership style to the person and the situation
    • Putting it into practice: Leadership case studies

    The ABC of Planning
    • What, why, and when do we plan?
    • SMARTer planning tools – mind-mapping, SWOT, SMART goals and Action Plans
    • Putting it into practice: Developing your SMART goal and Action Plan

    Communicating Internationally
    • What is effective communication?
    • International communication barriers and how to overcome them
    • Keys to effective international communication - active listening, questioning and responding techniques
    • Guidelines for productive business meetings
    • Putting it into practice: Difficult meeting situations

    Motivating your Team
    • What motivates people to work?
    • What the research tells us about motivation and employee engagement
    • The Q12 index: motivation and productivity
    • Putting it into practice: Motivating your team and engaging individuals

    Delegation: Learning to Let Go
    • Benefits of delegation/ under delegation/ over delegation
    • How to delegate the workload effectively
    • How to develop people through delegation
    • Putting it into practice: Developing a delegation plan for your staff

    Coaching for Staff Development
    • What is coaching?
    • Developmental and corrective coaching
    • Coaching guidelines
    • Putting it into practice: Coaching role-plays and case studies

    Problem-Solving and Decision-Making (PSDM)
    • Practical skills for Problem-Solving and Decision Making (PSDM)
    • A practical Problem-solving and Decision-making(PSDM) model
    • Putting it into practice: Applying the PSDM model to your own problem

    Managing Conflict and Stress at Work
    • Conflict management styles
    • A conflict resolution model
    • Managing stress at work
    • The Stress Chain
    • How to relieve negative stress

    Developing Yourself
    • Ten Tips for developing yourself as a manager
    • Putting it into practice: Management Lessons Learned
    • Team meetings and mini-presentations on what you have learned and can apply back on the job

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