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Management Skills for Experienced Managers
Course: 909
Type: RealityPlus
Duration: 3 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Lead, manage and motivate individuals and teams within a strategic context
- Enable effective decision making in challenging situations
- Extend alliances across the organization
- Proactively manage change to achieve desired results
- Focus on individual and team strengths to enhance capability and performance
- Navigate organizational politics to get things done
Course Benefits Because organizations must constantly change and improve results, they rely more on managers who have the vision and skills to keep their teams motivated and productive. In this course, you gain practical knowledge, skills and political savvy to become more effective at implementing strategy, addressing business challenges, decision making, leadership and motivation.Who Should Attend Experienced managers and middle managers who wish to enhance their ability to drive results across the organization and take their leadership skills to the next level. Management experience at the level of Course 290, "Management Skills," or Course 222, "Leadership Skills: Success Through Teamwork," is assumed.In an immersive environment, you participate in a thought-provoking case study, as well as individual and group activities, to apply management tools, techniques and strategies. Activities include the following:
- Assessing your leadership strengths
- Translating business strategy into a tactical plan
- Developing a performance dashboard
- Profiling your decision-making style
- Building connections and networks
- Applying a strategic change model
- Highlighting individual and team strengths
- Storytelling to appreciate generational differences
- Debating the pros and cons of organizational politics
- Customizing a road map for personal and organizational growth
Course 909 Content
- The scope of the middle management role
- The voice of experience
- Assessing your strengths
- Building credibility and trust
- Managing for results
- Seeing the big picture
- Identifying what impacts your strategy
- Establishing and maintaining internal alignment
- Ensuring people get and stay focused on the right results
- Building momentum using measures and milestones
- Communicating results up and down the hierarchy
- Dealing with the unknown
- Problems and dilemmas
- Recognizing cognitive and personal biases
- Exercising good judgment when making ethical decisions
- Identifying your own style
- Flexing your style to gain buy-in
- Employing a step-by-step process
- Generating and prioritizing options
- Weighing decision criteria
- Minimizing the potential for conflict
- Making appropriate tradeoffs
- Defining your circle of influence
- Gaining support and commitment from others
- Broadening your network through personal and professional connections
- Creating alliances to effect positive action
- Identifying pivotal links across the organization
- Why change is difficult
- Helping people see the need for change
- Inspiring action from your team
- Acting as an agent of change
- Implementing approaches that deliver effective change
- Transforming resistance into cooperative productivity
- Supporting improved individual and team performance
- Eliminating performance barriers
- Encouraging ownership and accountability in your management team
- Effectively integrating new team members
- Fostering teamwork in first-line managers
- Motivating others through a shared vision
- Aligning individual purpose with organizational goals
- Promoting individual talents and skills
- Respecting different values and approaches
- Deciphering and interpreting style differences
- Storytelling as a communication tool
- Demystifying your organization's culture
- Appreciating political dynamics
- Recognizing the politics in internal processes and relationships
- Valuing different perspectives
- Politics and ethics
- Assessing the political landscape
- Developing your power base
- Inspiring others in your network to take action
- Promoting a culture of trust
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