principles of management and leadership

Principles of Management and Leadership A refreshingly practical programme providing the opportunity to step back from the day-to-day pressures to think about management and receive some valuable coaching that will help you to improve personal, team and business performance; indeed, the programme should be self funding through the business improvement project undertaken.

It is delivered using the “little bit and often” principle rather than expecting people to leave their businesses for days on end and try and remember everything they have been told, let alone apply it successfully!

On this programme you will discuss challenges and share best practice with other key people in similar situations. It will help you to clarify direction, goals and responsibilities, become more organised and efficient and also understand more about the best ways to manage and motivate your team. There will also be plenty of opportunity to practice many of the techniques involved, thereby building greater confidence for use back in “real life” and increasing the likelihood of success.

This coaching is important because things are changing rapidly for managers; additional responsibilities, growing workloads, higher expectations plus increased pressure to perform.

Structure:

Open programmes which individuals and small groups can attend are organised on the basis of one morning per week (8.30am - 12.00pm) over a five week period plus pre and post course 1:1 coaching sessions on your site (i.e. 7 sessions in all). This means disruption to work is minimal as delegates can be back at work by lunchtime. The "little bit and often" approach also provides time to think about and actually apply the training (the most important bit) between sessions, gradually building confidence and skills and increasing retention by comparison to concentrated courses.

In-house programmes, can be tailored to suit whilst sticking to the same principle of a "little bit and often" e.g. sessions delivered if necessary once every two weeks or combined into 3 x 1 day sessions if people are travelling a long way to attend.

Course Content:

Management Skills:

Establishing Ownership & Responsibility - Key Areas of Responsibility. Agree expected results in terms of goals and performance standards. Link corporate and individual objectives.
Planning/Delivering On Time - Ensuring the delivery of goals and objectives - on time! Keep on track with larger projects. Involve your team.
Time & Workload Management - Re-assess today's priorities. Get more done in less time. Reduce "fire-fighting", emails and the in tray!

Stress Awareness & Reduction - Work more efficiently and under less pressure. Achieve a better work/life balance. Think more clearly.
Conducting Successful Meetings - Spend less time in them and make them more productive.
Delegation - Define and find time for your priorities. Achieve willing co-operation. Help your team to develop through delegation.
Problem Solving, Creative Thinking & Decision Making - Help people to think more for themselves. Make better decisions, quicker.

Leadership Skills:

Communication - Reduce misunderstanding and errors. Improve your personal impact and influence. Increase confidence presenting ideas to your team and in meetings.
Training & Developing People - Assessing competence. Achieve measurable improvements within your team. Increase motivation and retention.
Performance Management - Analyse and address under performance. Improve self management and accountability.

Coaching Skills - How to go about it. Increasing team and individual involvement and responsibility.
Teamwork - Benchmark good teamwork. Improve co-operation between teams
Introducing & Managing Change - Plan and secure "buy in" to changes both big and small. Enlist active co-operation and support. Avoid change pitfalls.
Building Trust & Respect - The key to coaching skills. Learn the power of taking genuine interest in your people and providing motivational feedback.

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