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.

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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:
Management Workshop - What Makes Good Management Good?

"How do I motivate my team?" That's the question I'm most often asked by frustrated management. They want some instant fix, a 'magic bullet' that improves team motivation overnight. But as we all know, life isn't like that.

I understand and appreciate why this question is being asked. I was a manager for fifteen years, I've felt the pain, and I understand the challenges management faces every day with their people.

The answer is - "You don't motivate your team, you create an environment where they motivate themselves."

Effective motivation is intrinsic, it has to come 'from within'. There is no instant fix; it's an ongoing day to day process of small actions that build a highly motivated team. It's like pushing a heavy boulder, you need some initial effort to get the process going, but once you've done that, it takes a lot less effort to keep it moving.

There is no point in a football manager having a shouting session in the locker room at half time; at best, that's only a short-term fix.

So how does good management create this motivational environment?

I've spent years studying successful sports and business management, trying to establish what makes the good guys good. I also thought about the management that I worked for, and the ones I respected. And I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that these management and coaches know:

How to do all the business parts of the job

How to do all the human parts of the job

A manager can have a certain level of success if they're good at the business part of the job, but not so good at the human part. Some management can go through their whole career by being competent in all the business and technical aspects of the job.

But to be a really successful manager, and build a self-motivating team, you need to be good at the human part of the job.

Now you're probably starting to feel a bit uncomfortable about all this 'human, touchy feely' stuff, and you're not alone, many management feel the same way. They're terrified of being seen as a soft touch. But if you want to be successful; get over it guys n' gals!

Let me give you some examples of what has been said about successful football management.

I read a newspaper report about the Manchester United soccer player, Wayne Rooney and his relationship with his manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
In Rooney's words - "Sir Alex is a hard manager and a tough manager, but he also gets on well with the players. The players can talk to him and that's important. That's all you need in a manager, to know you can trust him and turn to him when you have problems."

Jose Mourinho, the new manager of Real Madrid, is the World's highest paid football manager. In an interview for Men's Health magazine, he was asked what quality was most important in contributing to his success as a manager. "I think its love," he replied. "Love comes first, and because of love, other things arrive. I think without my love for my wife and for my kids, I wouldn't be the manager I am. I think life is about that."

Mourinho's love extends beyond his family: his love applies to his players as well; Mourinho speaks of them like favorite sons. He has undoubted love for them, as they, quite obviously, have for him.

Now I know what you're thinking - do I have to tell the people in my team that I love them, should I buy those presents? Somehow I don't think so!
However you do need to:

Spend some quality time with each of them

Listen to them and really get to know them

Coach them on the job, and help them find solutions to job related or personal problems

Find ways to make their job more interesting

Show that you appreciate them and have some fun

Let them know what's happening in the organization

Trust and believe in them, don't keep 'supervising'

You have to do, say or demonstrate behavior to your team members that lets them know you care about them.

That's what makes the good management workshop good, and if you want to join them, the question is: -

Are you tough enough to care?

Alan Fairweather: link

Subject: Management Workshop

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