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:
Time Management Workshop Tips for Managers

Time management is much better described as 'self-management', and there are hundreds of ways to implement strategies that will work best for you.

We all have our favorites and yet sometimes, we need to ensure that we take that step away and look from a different angle as well as the one we are used to.

Here are 8 tips that are amongst the best for making much more of the finite time you have:-

1. Check e-mails just twice a day

Set a time in the morning and one in the afternoon and leave it alone apart from that.

Note, tell other people who send e-mails to you that this is how you work (setting up an e-mail signature works well for this).

2. Put all your phone call time together

By having one set time to make your phone calls, you are focused and efficient in the use of this time.

Not only this, but it's off your mind and you know it's done, which helps you concentrate on the other work you have to do.

3. Leave messages for others to call you back

If the person you are calling isn't there, then have them call you back. It saves you time and costs as well.

If it's important enough to them, they will, if it's more vital to you, then it can slot into your list for the next day.

If you think it's that important to break with this routine, just ask yourself if that is really true!

4. Handle paperwork once - now/delegate, later, file/bin

Three easy options that will enable you to remain focused on a clear and organized office and desk.

Make a special period of time each day that all the 'Laters' are dealt with. BTW, delegation is vital when used constructively!

5. Have a open door/closed door policy

If you ever get bothered by people bursting in on you and causing interruptions, then this one is for you.

It's great to have an office door where people can pop in and chat - it's all part of relationship building - and if it gets out of hand you need to set a boundary.

If your office door is open, it's OK for people to pop in and be accessible. If it's closed, it isn't OK. Simple as that!

6. Do tricky activities first
Each of us have parts of our managerial work that they find the biggest challenge.

Make time at the start of the day after you've said 'Good Morning' to everyone (which you always do, right..?), to deal with pieces of work that you don't really relish.

Discipline; paperwork; meetings; planning; even dismissing someone are all possibilities that spring to my mind.

7. Choose carefully what you do and don't do

There are a lot of people in the world who take on much more than they really ought to. It could be they are intimidated into it; it might be they are nice people and like to help out.

Whatever the reason, we all need to focus on where a line is drawn so that we are able to deliver quality performance in what we decided to do.

So, watch for things getting pushed on you for the wrong reasons and then, politely, decline.

8. Stop doing things that are not productive

We all get into habits that make our day go by. Most times these are good, value-creating activities that are very worthwhile. It's a great action step to challenge this in yourself from time to time.

Set time aside every so often (every 6 months maybe), to check what your day contains and what is of little value.

Tip - also check on the tasks that others do on your orders and see if they are worthwhile.
Small changes in the ways that you do things can make huge impacts on what you are able to achieve. Be brave; ask yourself 'why' sometimes and above all, be gentle with yourself whilst you demand the very best too!

 

Martin Haworth: link

Subject: Management Workshop

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