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:
Six Management Workshop Steps Towards Effective Project Management

No matter what your line of business, one of the key factors in the smooth running of a planned project is through the effective use of project management techniques. Without it a project can easily begin to slip in terms of time, deadlines, costs and organization. By getting your project management strategy right you will save time and money, get it wrong and your whole project could very easily descend into chaos.

1 Make sure your project is driven by business benefits

It is important to firstly define the business benefits that you want to achieve from the project in hand. Make sure you clearly outline your objectives and that these are communicated to all involved. It's also important that you filter out any unwanted proposals as soon as possible to avoid clouding the more important issues in hand.

2. Constantly valuate the project benefits throughout the projects lifecycle

As the project evolves it is important to continuously assess and re-evaluate the marketing, operational and technical viability of the project. This needs to continue throughout the course of its lifecycle. If it's found that a project is beginning to run away with itself and is no longer viable then there are issues that need to be addressed. Do this sooner rather than later and if need be, don't be afraid to terminate the project.

3. Identify and Involve Stakeholders

When a project starts it's important to identify who the stakeholders are. A stakeholder is someone who is directly or indirectly affected by the project. Be sure to involve the stakeholders at all stages including the beginning. By doing this and spending the time to understand the internal and external requirements of the customer you will reduce the scope for error later on in the projects development. As always with project management, ensure there is an effective communication strategy is put in place in order that all those involved are keeping up to date with progress. This will also provide people with an opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions.

4. Use effective Project Management Techniques

It's vital that throughout good project management techniques and control mechanisms are put in place. This is a crucial area but is often one that many managers are poorly equipped to deal with or understand.

The core control techniques that are needed are:-

Planning,

Management risk,

Management scope change,

Managing schedules,

Management costs

Conducting reviews.

An effective project manager will help provide guidance, training and support for all management staff related to the project. This needs to include senior managers who act as sponsors.

5. Don't cut corners

While everyone involved in a project is keen to get things moving, it's important that you avoid the temptation to take short cuts or skip stages especially early on in the project. Decisions made here can have far reaching consequences so good management and planning early on can save time and money later.

6. Formally close a project and learn from your mistakes

Once a project has been successfully completed you need to formally close it. This process provides an opportunity for you to learn lessons from the experience and improve processes for the future. After a sufficient amount of time has passed conduct a post implementation review to establish whether the benefits that were initially set out were achieved, whether the solution that was delivered met the needs of the business for both the customer and their clients.

This is also a good time to celebrate the completion of the project and offer recognition to those who contributed to it.

 

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Subject: Management Workshop

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