Managing & Leading in Challenging Times
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In 168-172 Old Street
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Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Location
168-172 old street
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Duration
2 Days
This one of a kind course has been specifically designed to help managers and leaders navigate their business and their people through this maelstrom. Suitable for: Those in managerial and leadership roles
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Course programme
This one of a kind course has been specifically designed to help managers and leaders navigate their business and their people through this maelstrom. During this intensive course you will:
- Identify the qualities for leading in tough times to keep people motivated, confi dent and high performing
- Project confidence and engage people with your vision and survival strategy
- Examine how best to communicate sensitive information and ensure your style is authentic and open
- Manage pressure and keep physically and mentally energised and positive
- Learn how to make informed decisions and fi nd the best solutions for the challenges faced
- Explore strategies to encourage creativity and innovation to fi nd new sources of income and cost saving
Programme Details
PLANNING YOUR STRATEGY
- In depth analysis of challenges
- Economic impact on your business
- What needs to be done and prioritising
- Generating income and cutting costs
- Assessing the non-essential cost
- Outsourcing, partnerships and alliances
- Downsizing
- Developing a new vision based on new economic conditions
- Managing people and handling fear and uncertainty
- Innovate your way out of crisis
- Generating ideas - activating creativity for new products and new revenue sources
- Harnessing the ideas of the team
- Techniques for igniting innovation
- Using pressure positively to engage hearts and minds
- Managing challenges and dealing with problems
- Using online networking tools
- What is the message you need to communicate?
- Planning communication
- Getting the story straight
- Delivering emotive news
- Being open, honest and sincere
- Processing the information needed
- Planning time for your people
- Working smart
- Managing the pressure and your own anxiety
- Developing your own survival plan
- Managing emotions
- Feeling positive
- Leadership style options
- Involving everyone
- Make everyone a marketer
- Keeping people feeling good and confi dent
- Involving the team
- Help people feel secure
- Creating stability in a crisis
- Managing performance and keeping productivity at optimum levels
- Managing diffi cult people and dealing with emotion and negativity
- Managing redundancy and outplacement
- Keeping the atmosphere enjoyable
- Handling politics
- Managing people through change and adversity
- The importance of confi dent delivery
- Planning the messages
- Structure of the presentation and developing key themes
- Delivery style
- The Kepner Fourie 'thinking' processes for solving complex problems
- Using divergent and convergent thinking
- Identifying the problem
- How to gather the information needed
- How to analyse the information
- Make a conclusion
- Attraction Strategy - you USPs (unique sales proposition)
- Effective selection & recruitment processes
- Retention & development - a holistic approach
- How to develop an integrated talent management process
- Retention & development of high performers
- Strategies to keep the best people on board
- Succession planning
- Dealing with losing key people
This course is scheduled in central london but can also be held inhouse
Managing & Leading in Challenging Times