Drive - Director & Senior Management Development

Senior Management Development

Five reasons for using this course
1. Do you feel that your management style sometimes fails to motivate others in a rapidly changing environment?
2. Do you struggle with balancing the demands of your work with other areas of your life?
3. Are you frustrated that the people around you are not fully on board with your vision of success?
4. Do you worry that without your continued vigilance, there are some important customer-centred activities that are slipping through the net?
5. Do you wish your people would take full responsibility for achieving results instead of looking to you for ongoing guidance and control?

If the answer is "yes" to any of the above questions you will find that the Drive course provides solutions to these and many other issues that exercise today's director and senior manager.
Those who have experienced Drive in the past have gained lasting benefits from improved performance in thinking, communicating and having an inspirational view of the future. The ultimate delivery is personal fulfilment and business profit.

Are you spending enough of your time on planning your company's future?
As a senior manager, I'm sure you'll agree that you are at your most effective when you have the time to strategise and plan for the future growth of your company. That's the key role you have as a senior manager!
But is your time being spent on planning your company's future at the moment? If it isn't, what else is diverting your attention from this key function? Here's a quick test. Just tick the boxes below if you are finding that you are:

Frustrated with your line managers, because they don't buy in to the same vision of the future that you have. "Firefighting" the same issues every day of the week.

Making decisions for your front line managers that they should be taking the responsibility for.

Frustrated that some front line managers are finding it hard to use the authority that you have given them.
Feeling that work dominates your whole life - and that your family and you are seeing less and less of each other.
In a position where you feel that you are the only person who feels the way you do, that there seems to be no other person that you can turn to for advice and empathy - because "
.... if you have ticked more than one box, maybe you'd like to find out how you can become more pro-active in dealing with and delegating the day to day running of your business.
You could start by talking to Jarrold Training.

Our Drive Senior Management Development Course involves weekly half-day sessions over an eight week period at our Norwich and Bury St. Edmunds training centres. Here, we coach senior managers to become highly skilled in the disciplines of personal and business planning, building motivation and staff effectiveness, facilitating the smooth introduction of change . Our coaching drastically improves the way senior managers think, act and communicate a positive view of the future .

Format
· Pre-course objective setting
· One morning a week for eight weeks
· Application and assignment-driven
· An executive coaching session
· Relevant business-related projects
· Regular peer group review time
· Post-course review and coaching(


)Areas covered
· Vision and long-term planning
· Practical creativity
· Safe and effective delegation
· Coaching for performance
· Enhanced customer satisfaction
· Improved utilisation of resources
· Motivated and focused teams and colleagues
· Decision making under pressure and on strategic issues
· Developing exceptional teamwork
· Leadership - the appropriate style