Our Management Training Seminars

By introducing our Management Training Seminars 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 seminars. 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.

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As a part of our management training seminars, 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:
Careful Project Planning - Effective Project Management Seminar

Employees with large paychecks often have the reputation of getting large jobs done. They are able to separate big and important jobs from less important ones. And they are able to focus their attention on them right through the end. The key skills these people have are planning and prioritization.

Proper planning and prioritization are also foundations of another skill that allows successful people do large jobs on time. This skill is project management. This is another prized skill for employees who want to take on larger tasks to earn a larger paycheck.

If you're already in that position and you're finding it hard to do the nitty-gritty work along with the actual management of your projects, you may be lacking the foundation skills to successfully manage projects. In the article, Increasing You’re Making Money Capacity: Reinventing Work Habits, helpful strategies to increase your productivity is discussed. Once you reinvent you work habits, project management will come naturally.

Careful project planning is an important foundation to successfully managing a project. The first and most important part of planning is determining the project management objectives.

1. Defining the Project

Following the words of Stephen R. Covey, "Begin with the end in mind," start seeing your project's results in the best case scenario. Think and describe the details of perfect results for your project. Write down in detail the perfect results of your project. This will be your guideline to form the project objectives. This will also be your measure of success after completing the project.

2. Divide the Project into Parts

A project can oftentimes be complex. Your aim is to simplify it to make it more manageable. To simplify the approach on the project, think of it as a collection of different activities, with specific target dates, and individual results leading to the project objectives. Once you perceive a project like this, it’s easier to chop it down into basic activities. Write down all the basic activities involved in the project. You will need your project management team to help you list down all the activities.

3. Organize the Activity List by Sequence and Priority

Now that project has been divided into its basic activities, sequentially arrange them. Determine which activities should be first, second, third, and so on. Also, look for activities which can be executed simultaneously with other activities to save time. Another thing to consider is the time required to finish each activity, and the time given to finish the whole project. This is important to see delays early on. Stack the activities neatly and in logical sequence, then add up the time required to finish the project. If it is beyond the time given to finish the project, go back to the activities where time can be shortened.

4. Assign Responsibilities

Now that activities are ordered into a logical sequence, and the time required for each are defined, responsibilities should now be assigned. Ask each person assigned the resources needed to meet the deadlines you've set for each activity. Make sure to arrange the resources in advance for each activity so it will be available when they are in execution.

5. Monitor Progress

Include project management team meetings after each critical activity in the project management planning. Project management team meetings will inform everybody of the status of the whole project, and give them a sense of importance of the activities assigned to your project management teammates. Also, agree on a feedback system between you and your project management teammates so you are informed of the progress in each step of the project. This will also keep you aware if the project is proceeding in a good or bad manner.

6. Inspect What You Expect

In the beginning of the project planning, you visualized the best case scenario for the results of the project. Towards the end of the planning stage, brainstorm with your project management team on the possible problems that could occur within each activity. List these down for each activity. Agree within your project management team if these are valid, and prepare solutions for problems that would cause the most significant delay to the activity. Cumulative delays to each step of the project would add up to a significant delay to the project. It is always wise to be prepared for any situation.

7. Act on the Plan

The actual management of the project will come from preparations you've made in steps 5 and 6. If everyone in your project management team is clear with their responsibilities, managing your project or projects, while doing some nitty-gritty work on the side, should be easier and less stressful.

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