Leadership Tools for Managers

Leadership Tools for Managers Course Content:

Self-Management

• Use time management and prioritising processes.
• Develop and implement a plan for self-development.
• Manage stress, worry and improve learning ability.

Process Management

• Solve problems quickly and intelligently.
• Master goal-setting processes and deploy a plan of action.
• Apply the principles of influence and negotiation.

Change Management

• Encourage the environment to adapt to change.
• Plan, promote, implement and monitor change.
• Review the consequences of change.

Activity Management

• Meet the needs of internal and external customers.
• Plan, monitor and evaluate objectives and results.
• Recognise and deliver consistent quality.

Resource Management

• Measure, monitor and set indicators for performance.
• Reduce costs and operate within budget parameters.
• Organise people, materials, equipment, security and waste.

Team Management

• Build an effective team through development plans.
• Use the delegation and accountability process.
• Understand coaching, training, induction and assessment.

People Management

• Respond accordingly to individual motivational drivers.
• Influence, monitor and review performance and targets.
• Recruit, retain, discipline and resolve conflict.

Communication Management

• Overcome barriers and close the communication loop.
• Ensure the receipt and comprehension of messages.
• Plan, prepare and facilitate effective meetings.

Information Management

• Use qualitative and quantitative intelligence gathering.
• Use a decision-making model for problem solving.
• Produce, source and present information.

Application

• Leadership: master the tools that influence or manage conflict and change.
• First Line Management: discover the rudiments for managing people, systems and projects.
• Middle Management: refine our existing management skills and learn up-to-date strategies.
• Business Owners: stay ahead of our competition and take the business to the next level.

Methodology
The open-programme provides each delegate with time-phased learning for gradual skill development. This encompasses animated corporate training, experiential development, practical application of the tools in the working environment and one to one coaching. Accountability and monitoring are integral elements of the programme, which promote immediate results and measurable progress. The Leadership Tools for Managers modules also include unique and copyrighted human relations principles.
Many of the modules in Leadership Tools for Managers are derived from the definitive research by Murray Hiebert and Bruce Klatt and can be located in their book, Encyclopedia of Leadership; McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2004. A number of the worksheets, used in the manuals, on this programme have been reproduced, with permission, from this book.
Open Programme Composition

• four training days.
• pre-programme one to one coaching.
• post-programme one to one coaching.
• training manual.
• certificate in management development.
• lunch & refreshments.
• car parking.

In House Customised Solutions
All of our corporate open programmes can also be delivered as fully customised solutions. We will invest time in designing training and coaching that bridges the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. The modules, timing and style of delivery can be shaped to offer you a personalised edge. Your corporate logo and business name can even feature in the course manuals.
Once designed, the solutions can be delivered as an in-house programme or offsite on our premises during the business day or outside of office hours. You also have the option to take full advantage of the modular structure by time-phasing each session to enhance the gradual skill development. Team development is achieved incidentally through the delivery of our customised solutions.