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Managing in Tough Times


Course 9223 Days

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You Will Learn How To

  • Demonstrate authentic and strong leadership to create an atmosphere of confidence and trust in tough times
  • Share your vision and display confidence that the problems your team currently faces will be solved
  • Apply key management skills, strategies and techniques to remedy difficult situations
  • Re-evaluate and adjust your management and communication style to motivate and energise employees
  • Demonstrate "grace under pressure" to provide a sense of security and stability for your team
  • Minimise stress and maximise productivity and performance during difficult times

Course Benefits

Most organisations today are dealing with a business climate that is not "business as usual." In the face of this reality, strong leaders must inspire productive performance and communicate effectively and credibly. Successful leaders must take a hard look at current processes and make decisions to guide their teams from the current reality to its desired future state. In this course, you gain the skills to manage a team during a time of uncertainty.

Who Should Attend

Managers who need to prepare for leading their team during tough or uncertain times. Knowledge of day-to-day management best practices and principles at the level of Course 290, "Management Skills", or Course 906, "Management Skills for an IT Environment", is assumed.

Through an immersive case study, you gain practical experience managing your team in tough or uncertain times. Role-playing, group and individual activities include:
  • Putting the oxygen mask on yourself first
  • Communicating when there are powerful emotions
  • Delivering a message with a difficult theme to employees or stakeholders
  • Informing employees about layoffs
  • Acting with honesty and integrity during unpredictable times
  • Keeping your credibility when you can't say what's coming next
  • Managing the rumour mill
  • Developing a sense of urgency to motivate yourself and others
  • Exploring prescriptions for tough times
  • Coping with all too human reactions to tough times

Course Content

Essentials for Tough Times

Best practices during tough times

  • Layoffs and company downsizing
  • Economic downturn and uncertainty
  • Budget cuts and reorganisations
  • Company sale, merger or acquisition

Clarifying your role

  • The benefits of strong leadership
  • Demonstrating confidence and trust
  • Success in moving forward

Applying a Model for Handling Tough Situations

Dealing with powerful emotions

  • Managing conflict as a natural part of tough times
  • Empowering employee productivity

Inspiring confidence in your team

  • Handling your own anxiety
  • Reframing the situation for yourself
  • Regaining self-composure

Assessing the Current Situation and Sharing the Vision

Managing expectation vs. reality

  • Exploring what is happening
  • Envisioning the desired state

Performing a gap analysis

  • Diagnosing what needs to be done
  • Defining the rationale and urgency for working on remedies
  • Determining the course of action to move forward

Planning the Remedy

Removing barriers for success

  • Creating buy-in and boosting morale
  • Exploring strategies for dealing with difficult transitions

Achieving team alignment

  • Tuning the organisation to its new reality
  • Positioning your team or organisation for success

General prescriptions for guiding through a transition

  • Thinking creatively when under stress
  • Building flexibility and adaptability
  • Moving through a transition
  • Stages of transition

Working with People

Implementing communication strategies

  • Communicating when you're not allowed
  • Communicating when you don't have all the answers
  • Showing you care when you can't help

Managing the human factor in tough times

  • Mitigating disruptions from problem employees
  • Motivating employees "when it's no fun to work here anymore"
  • Building resilience and perspective
  • Handling the rumour mill
  • Energizing and empowering your team

Leading through Organisational Changes

Providing a sense of security and stability to your team, group or department

  • Reducing anxiety during reorganisations
  • Maintaining performance during changes in team membership
  • Reframing to enhance resilience and perspective

Manoeuvering through larger company-wide changes

  • Maintaining motivation while outsourcing
  • Building alignment during mergers and acquisitions
  • Preserving momentum during sales and divestitures

Optimising performance during physical or environmental changes

  • Sustaining employee drive while working virtually
  • Bringing order to chaos while moving or closing offices

Minimising Stress and Maximising Productivity Moving Forward

  • Adopting techniques for handling your tough situation
  • Implementing your postcourse action plan
  • Taking away your strategies to implement back at the office

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8-10 SepLondon enrol

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Tuition

£ 1,475 Standard Tuition
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£ 1,000Flex-Training Pass
£ 75010-Day Training Pass
£ 1,520Voucher 10-Pack
£ 1,330Alumni Gold Discount
 

 
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