Management Training Seminars

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 courses. 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 classes please contact us.

As a part of our management training courses, 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:
Management Skills Training - Hard Work is Bad Management

Peter is sitting at his desk, it's 10.00pm. His friends are out playing a game of netball, he had to cancel his place, there was just too much work...

Mary is on another flight. She arrived home Friday afternoon and spent the weekend getting ready for the next flight. She’s broken out in blemishes on her face...

There are countless stories of hard work that has resulted from bad management. Situations that could have been avoided if people had been better at management. Let’s see how.

To be brief:

Hard work is bad management.

Hard work is doing something you don't enjoy that takes too much time.

Mismanagement comes from small perspectives.

There are three things we all need to manage well - Self, Relationship and Work.

Managing self is health.

Managing relationship is appreciation.

Managing work is prioritization, delegation and systematization.

Another word for manage is care.

To care is to manage.

Sometimes not doing what others want is the best care.

What you appreciate grows because people become as you treat them.

The best way to grow yourself is to appreciate others.

There are two sides to everything. The wise person knows both.

The leader knows both and focuses on the positive.

Finally, most people deliberately sabotage their own management.

Most people are not in love with what they are with and what they do.

But most important, most people want to change themselves, rather than be themselves.

To appreciate someone, you must not want to change them.

There are three things we need to manage in our lives:

Self

Other

Work

If we mismanage any of these, they become hard work. We define hard work as not enjoyable or too time consuming.

If we mismanage our relationship, for example, then we will have to spend allot of time in our relationship trying to fix it. But if we manage our relationship well, then the time we spend in our relationship will be enjoyable, positive and beautiful. If we mismanage our work, then it will consume more and more time. Finally, when there is no more time it can consume, mismanaged work will consume our energy and then our bank account.

If we mismanage our self, we will self obsess. Self obsessing means we become obsessed with ourselves. Then we become addicted. Addicted to food, sympathy, sleep, drugs, computers. Self obsession means we think we are very important. More important than other people. So we don't care about others, we care about ourselves. Then we are mismanaging ourselves, we are only deluding ourselves.

Good management means CARE. To care is to manage. If you care for your work, you will care for customers, clients, suppliers, staff. If you mismanage you will not care, you will only want to do the right thing because it makes money. Good management means care drives profit, instead of profit drives care.

Good management in relationship means care. And because caring for others is really caring for self. (same topic) those who care for their relationship end up managing themselves well too. A person who cares about others will not feed them badly, not feed them excess of drinks and more. This is care. Sometimes care looks like it doesn't care. It looks cold or hard because it doesn't give a child what it wants. But care means to do the most healthy thing, not fulfill others expectation.

Bad management results in breakdown.

Nervous breakdown means bad management of the mind.

Health breakdown means bad management of mind and body.

Relationship breakdown means bad management of love.

Business breakdown means bad management of money.

Sales breakdown means bad management of customers.

Tired at night means bad management of work.

Hard work is the result of bad management. Something that is managed well does not require hard work. In fact, good management means that work is not work at all. It is a passion. Passion builds energy, work consumes it.

Most, if not all bad management comes from a small perspective on things. If our perspective is narrow, we will manage for the present, in the moment. This is very bad management. We must manage for the future. Things become as you treat them. Sometimes we have to give up something today so we can have profit tomorrow. Sometimes we have to tolerate something today that will grow into tomorrow. Bad management comes from the lack of awareness of cumulative decisions.

Some people think what happens today is the result of yesterdays thinking. But this is wrong. What happens today is the cumulative result of your whole life of thinking. What happens in your relationships today is the cumulative result of little things that have happened along the way. Little chips eventually carve marble. So in relationship, little quips, eventually carve the relationship. Bad management is negative quips. Good management is positive quips.

There are two sides to everything. This is the first law of nature. The wise person knows it. They don't mismanage by having such a small perspective that there is only one side to a coin. Some people think they can find a perfect partner, and this is true, unless that perfect partner is only a good and not a bad person. Little perspectives on business, others, and self are aimed at narrowing the permissible limits. They look for half, and dismiss the other.

This is bad management. But good management appreciates. Good management appreciates both the good news and the bad news. Good management is not deluded into thinking it can find a situation where there is no challenge. No, good management sees both sides to anything and everything.

What you appreciate grows. Good management is to appreciate things. Make them bigger. You make people bigger by appreciating them. You make businesses bigger by appreciating it's assets. You make relationships bigger by appreciating how much you can do together as a couple (rather than as two individuals) and you make yourself bigger by appreciating life, and the gifts you have.

You depreciate all of the above by trying to change it.

Good management means to get more done in less time. If you are spending more time to get more results, this is bad management. We all rise to our level of incompetence. Spending too much time at work, at home, on self, in order to get more results is the opposite to creativity. It is an old fashioned idea that if you work harder things get better. And when picks and shovels were the only tools, there may have been a grain of truth. Now, creativity means, How do I do more in the same time, or even more in less time.

The final word. Most people deliberately mismanage things. Consciously, we mismanage our time because if we had more time we wouldn't know what to do with it or, we would have to spend it doing something we don't like. Many, many, many people spend excessive hours at work because they hate their home life. And many people spend way too much time alone because they hate their relationship or their job. Many people are single because they self obsess with themselves and their own company. But love does not flourish in ones. One bird is not love. It is extinction.

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Subject: Management Skills Training

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