Management Skills for Senior Executives

Course Content

Making the Change to Senior Management

• The challenges and opportunities facing new senior managers
• Taking the organisational perspective
• Changes in the business environment
• Your Organisation and the Business Environment
• Your role in relation to your organisation’s objectives as a whole
• Working with and understanding the power and influence of stakeholders
• Dealing with uncertainty and complexity

• Working and influencing across the organisation
• Long term business planning - taking a longer term perspective
• Developing a broader outlook - changing mindset

• Adapting and developing new skills to manage process changes
• How to transform business processes for sustained competitive advantage
• Understanding the fundamental differences between radical transformation and continuous improvement
• The key principles and concepts of process transformation

• A strategic view of performance management
• Managing performance and setting objectives in relation to the organisation as a whole

• Managing other managers: the new skills this role demands
• Adapting existing leadership skills into a more empowered and creative approach to leadership
• Creating an effective people management strategy
• Directing versus managing people
• Acquiring or refreshing your coaching skills to bring out the best in others