Our Management Training Workshops

By introducing our Management Training workshops to your staff we help ease the negative effect of change on both managerial and supervisory personnel. The change in job responsibilities, the change in personnel, job duties, and the rising challenge of developing subordinates are specific goals of our learning systems workshops. We are highly successful at helping Managers and Supervisors learn and adapt to the necessary skills and proper behaviors to be successful at work as well as in their personal lives.

For more information on our management training workshops please contact us.

As a part of our management training workshops, Managers and Supervisors will learn how to:

• Minimize the chance of miscommunication by understanding what people are really saying, and why
• Deal with difficult people, manage tense situations, and resolve conflict
• Make use of proven active listening skills to improve your ability to gain helpful information
• Be able to facilitate, guide, and close discussions in one-on-one or group settings
• Improve understanding and communication by giving and receiving good feedback
• Use ideas submitted by a member of the team without causing other members to be defensive
• Develop a comprehensive team building strategy that improves productivity of the whole team
• Emphasize the value of working toward common goals without devaluing individual accomplishment
• Define and set up a method to track staff activities
• Be able to manage time and work assignments effectively
• Conduct team meetings that capture and hold the audience’s attention
• Interview and hire the right person for the right job
• Save time and work more effectively through the use of a clear time management plan
• Understand and comply with proper hiring and managing requirements
• Communicate effectively with both superiors, peers and subordinates
• Become effective coaches for their work team
• Conduct accurate and difficult performance appraisals

 

Management Training Tips:
Is Your Business Management Style Too Rigid?

I grew up during a time when dads were not expected to be involved with their families.  The message for them was to sacrifice everything related to home and to be the sole providers for their families.

Gender roles were at extreme poles.  Moms were moms, and dads were...well, unfortunately not allowed to be dads.

Fortunately, times have changed. The 21st century is a time where we are all trying to find the center in our lives.  

Women are trying to break in to higher levels of business management in the workplace and men are trying to break out.   The reality is that the old business management suit that men have worn for years doesn't fit them any longer.  Like women, men want fuller lives.  We may not be completely there yet, but we are certainly moving in the right direction.

But we often come up against the wrath of old thinking.  Rigid roles of the past are passe.  And yet, they do pop up in our heads too frequently.  Dads who choose to stop working at 4pm to rush home to coach their kid's baseball team have to confront this business management judgment.  As do fathers who chose to become stay-at-home dads.  Even worst, what about the guy that wants to reinvent himself and step away from a high-paying, high-stress job to pursue a "less practical" passion?

When I wrote my book, The Connected and Committed Leader, my hope was to help redefine business management in the workplace so that collectively, men and women could thrive. It is not about achieving balance, but finding a center in the extremes that no longer work for us. In other words, creating work that works in today's world.  Since my business management insights draw on the heart-driven aspects of parenting and apply them back to business, many people thought that my book was strictly geared towards women.  After all, how often do we speak of home when it comes to men?  Not often enough.  

However, in my work today with corporate and business management, I find men really connect to my insights in different ways than women.  Men are seeking permission to shed the business management armor and to be more human at work and at home.  Where as women are looking for validation that they can keep being themselves without the armor and still be successful in business management.

In truth, we are all tired of the old ways; the rigid hierarchies and the command and control models no longer work.  

Armin Brott, better known as "Mr. Dad" is an author of eight books trying to change how our society and the workplace look at men as dads. He believes that there is still too much societal expectation for men to be "tough" resulting in them becoming emotionally removed and unavailable.  As a result, families, workplaces and society as a whole suffer.  I agree completely.

Leadership at home and at work requires emotional presence.  If we don't allow men to bring this forth, how can business management and homes thrive and move beyond where we are today?  Men have to be able to shed some of that armor in order to be connected to those around them.  Ironically, when they do, they become even more influential and can make a bigger impact.   

Here are some things to think about:

Believe and Let Go

Control is not business management. Believing in others and guiding them to excellence, is.  When you control, you are controlled by the need to control. You are unable to connect when you attempt to control and fix everything.  When you let go, you can become the leader that is already within you.  Start first by believing in that leader within you and let go.  The first place to address these judgments and expectations that society has on you, is by addressing it first within yourself.  When you start to believe and let go, you give yourself this permission and in turn, help others around you to do the same.  

Be Receptive and Yield

The word receptivity is often attributed to women. Women receive, but men don't.  However, in order to lead, we must first receive.  To receive is to be in a position of guidance.  You can only guide others when you are open enough to receive them and their ideas.  When men start to receive they begin to loosen that burden they carry, and as a result, they become more available and connected to those around them.  This fosters a position of strength that enables growth in you and in others.  

Be Vulnerable and Give of Yourself

We all know that the stereotype exists that men don't like to ask for directions. Why?  Because that would mean that they are vulnerable.  Strength comes from stretching yourself to be more and more comfortable with vulnerability.  That stretch develops a resiliency that is necessary for leaders.  The best leaders are those that are vulnerable enough to know that they can be on the bottom of the heap tomorrow.  Those that believe that they are above-the-rest and can't and won't ever tumble... are in a position to break.  Think Bernie.  

In summary, when I conducted my research with business professionals and asked them about the leaders who influenced them the most in their lives, 90% said it was a parent. 

Laura Lopez: http://www.lauralopezblog.com/

Business Management

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