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Management Skills for Experienced Managers

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Lead, manage and motivate individuals and teams within a strategic context
  • Enable effective decision making in challenging situations
  • Extend alliances across the organisation
  • Proactively manage change to achieve desired results
  • Focus on individual and team strengths to enhance capability and performance
  • Navigate organisational politics to get things done

Course Benefits

Because organisations must constantly change and improve results, they rely more on managers who have the vision and skills to keep their teams motivated and productive. In this course, you gain practical knowledge, skills and political savvy to become more effective at implementing strategy, addressing business challenges, decision making, leadership and motivation.

Who Should Attend

Experienced managers and middle managers who wish to enhance their ability to drive results across the organisation and take their leadership skills to the next level. Management experience at the level of Course 290, "Management Skills", or Course 222, "Leadership Skills: Success Through Teamwork", is assumed.

RealityPlus
In an immersive environment, you participate in a thought-provoking case study, as well as individual and group activities, to apply management tools, techniques and strategies. Activities include the following:

  • Assessing your leadership strengths
  • Translating business strategy into a tactical plan
  • Developing a performance dashboard
  • Profiling your decision-making style
  • Building connections and networks
  • Applying a strategic change model
  • Highlighting individual and team strengths
  • Storytelling to appreciate generational differences
  • Debating the pros and cons of organisational politics
  • Customising a road map for personal and organisational growth

Related Courses

  • 290 Management Skills
  • 222 Leadership Skills: Success Through Teamwork
  • 224 Coaching Employees to Their Potential
  • 294 Influence Skills
  • 904 Responding to Conflict
  • 905 Facilitation Skills
  • 284 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • 252 Strategic Planning
  • 246 Managing Information Overload

   Management Skills for Experienced Managers

Upcoming Dates

15 - 17 Oct, 2008
London
17 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
18 - 20 Feb, 2009
London
22 - 24 Apr, 2009
London
24 - 26 Jun, 2009
London

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Management Skills for Experienced Managers

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

The Role of an Experienced Manager

  • The scope of the middle management role
  • The voice of experience
  • Assessing your strengths
  • Building credibility and trust
  • Managing for results

Linking Strategy to Action

Implementing a strategic direction

  • Seeing the big picture
  • Identifying what impacts your strategy
  • Establishing and maintaining internal alignment

Translating strategy into measurable outcomes

  • Ensuring people get and stay focused on the right results
  • Building momentum using measures and milestones
  • Communicating results up and down the hierarchy

Making Tough Decisions

What makes a decision challenging

  • Dealing with the unknown
  • Problems and dilemmas
  • Recognising cognitive and personal biases
  • Exercising good judgement when making ethical decisions

Decision-making styles

  • Identifying your own style
  • Flexing your style to gain buy-in

Implementing a decision-making model

  • Employing a step-by-step process
  • Generating and prioritising options
  • Weighing decision criteria
  • Minimising the potential for conflict
  • Making appropriate tradeoffs

Expanding Your Influence Across Your Organisation

Eliminating "silo" thinking

  • Defining your circle of influence
  • Gaining support and commitment from others

The power of networking

  • Broadening your network through personal and professional connections
  • Creating alliances to effect positive action
  • Identifying pivotal links across the organisation

Fostering Change from the Middle

The challenge of change

  • Why change is difficult
  • Helping people see the need for change
  • Inspiring action from your team

Making change happen

  • Acting as an agent of change
  • Implementing approaches that deliver effective change
  • Transforming resistance into cooperative productivity

Engaging and Mobilising Others

Leveraging team performance for strategic results

  • Supporting improved individual and team performance
  • Eliminating performance barriers
  • Encouraging ownership and accountability in your management team
  • Effectively integrating new team members
  • Fostering teamwork in first-line managers

Harnessing individual strengths

  • Motivating others through a shared vision
  • Aligning individual purpose with organisational goals
  • Promoting individual talents and skills

Orchestrating cross-generational understanding

  • Respecting different values and approaches
  • Deciphering and interpreting style differences
  • Storytelling as a communication tool

Politics with Integrity

Organisational culture

  • Demystifying your organisation's culture
  • Appreciating political dynamics
  • Recognising the politics in internal processes and relationships
  • Valuing different perspectives

Politics: the art of getting things done

  • Politics and ethics
  • Assessing the political landscape
  • Developing your power base
  • Inspiring others in your network to take action
  • Promoting a culture of trust
 
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Management Skills for Experienced Managers Tuition

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course 909 Tuition

£ 1,395Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 73510-Day Training Pass
£ 915Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,46010-Training Vouchers
£ 1,5605-Training Vouchers
£ 1,255Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Flex-Training Pass
  • 3 Courses for £2 750
  • As little as £915
  • Savings as much as 50%
  • 3 courses in 24 months
10-Day Training Pass
  • Save as much as £770 per course
  • Any combination of courses
  • Only £2,450
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as £535 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as £1,460 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you will receive a personalised Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as £200 on each course you take in the following 24 months. Take just one course every two years, and you will be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year. You save 10%.
* Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

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Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course - and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the fee.

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