Essential Management Skills
WWP Training Limited
Delivery Method: Face-to-face Essential Management Skills
Course Aims:
Building a foundation for excellence in management.
As someone new to management, you may have an idea of the kind of manager you would like to be. Perhaps you would like to model yourself on a manager you have had, who has mentored and inspired you. You too can become an influential manager, one who commands respect and co-operation, once you understand the dynamics involved in managing people.
Course Pre-requisites:
This programme is for you if you are new to a management role and want to learn the tools and techniques that will give you a firm foundation upon which to build your career in management.
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course delegates will be able to:
- Understand the dynamics of managing people
- Appreciate the manager’s role and responsibilities
- Understand how to modify your management style to suit individual personality types
- Acquire the confidence to implement new practices
- Understand motivational factors and how to apply them
Course Content:
Introduction and Objectives
Being Today’s Manager
- Define the role of the manager
- Self-assessment
- Setting standards for yourself and others
- Responsibilities, context and challenges
- Characteristics of an effective manager
The Management Process
- Agreeing goals
- Setting SMART objectives
- Action planning
- Involving the team
- Allocating work
- Supporting and monitoring results
Managing Yourself and Your Time
- Agreeing goals
- Setting SMART objectives
- Action planning
- Involving the team
- Allocating work
- Supporting and monitoring results
Developing Your Management Style
- Using your personal style to maximise results
- Personal strengths and blind spots
Communication
- Effective listening
- Powerful questioning
- Assertive communication
Delegation and Motivation
- Getting the best out of people
- Developing and 'stretching' people
Managing People and Performance
- Strategies for managing difficult people and situations
- Coaching improved performance
- The performance management process
Action planning
Review of Programme
Related Courses
- Coaching Skills
- Facilitation Skills
Dates available on arrangement
WWP Training Limited can also create this course for you on arrangement
either at your workplace or at one of their locations.
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