Stepping Up To Management

Course review:

Developing management abilities is vital to the growth of any organisation and it is essential that new supervisors and managers acquire a foundation of relevant skills upon which to build their career. Companies need managers that will motivate and drive their teams.

This highly-interactive 1-day course Stepping Up to Management will help to put new managers on the right track and lay the foundations for a successful advancement into management.

Built around four inter-related 90 minute bite-sized training sessions, this fast-moving Stepping Up To Management 1-day course will cover the areas of:

Introduction To Management...Learn how to be an effective manager from day one...

- What managers (are supposed) to do
- Action centred leadership
- Typical mistakes of new managers
- Stepping up - 3 top skills for success
- Identifying personal actions

Developing Management Style...Learn how to extend your approach to managing others...

- What's it like being managed by you?
- Your task-people orientation
- Identifying your management style
- Recognising when to use different styles
- M.B.W.A. - managing by walking around

Planning & Organising...Learn how to develop and implement effective plans...

- Planning - measure twice, cut once!
- Key stages in effective planning
- Useful planning tools and techniques
- Monitoring and contingency planning
- Planning exercise

Delegation...Learn how to develop your delegation skills and technique...

- Self-assessment: how am I doing?
- Delegation - benefits and pitfalls
- The 5 key steps
- The 4 levels of delegation
- Opportunities - what to delegate?