Management Skills for New Managers

The Best Selling Programme for New Managers. Get all the key management skills that you need to be a great manager.

• Are you a new manager or you want to update your skills?
• Do you want to learn the key skills that every manager needs?
• How can you lead your projects and motivate your team to achieve your goals and get things done in time?
• How do you communicate to your different stakeholders?
• How can you grow in your role and your career?

Register to this intensive 3-day training for new managers focused on practical learning, designed and facilitated by business people that understand your challenges and will guide you to find effective solutions.

Your immediate takeway:

• Discover how to adjust your management style to the different memebers of your team
• Learn about motivation, delegation, coaching, communication, performance management and leadership
• Become aware of your personal weaknesses and learn to play to your strengths to your advantage.

This training programme for newly appointed managers combines proven-by-practice methods with new insights and ideas that will grow your management skills. You will gain a wider perspective of management practice through breakout sessions, exercises, and case applications.

How will you benefit?

After taking this programme, you will be able to:

• Fully understand your management roles and responsibilities
• Improve communication with your team and set expectations for yourself and your direct reports
• Adapt your leadership style to meet the needs of individual team members
• Communicate organizational goals that get results
• Apply delegation strategies to increase productivity and motivation
• Use effective coaching techniques to maximize your team’s performance
• Network and learn from a diverse group of peers from different functions, industries and countries
• Develop a personal action plan to implement back at work
• Learn and practice using real-world examples and role plays over 3 interactive days

What will you learn and practice?

This 3 day programme is highly interactive with exercises and role plays. Programme Highlights:

Your Role as Manager

• Identify qualities and abilities required for effective management
• Understand your role and responsibilities as manager
• Learn to transition from individual contributor to manager
• Know how to work effectively with a multigenerational workforce
• Understand the nuances when managing remote teams and across the matrix

Performance Management

• Identify the challenges to effective performance management
• Understand and conduct performance planning, facilitation and evaluation
• Practice the skill of setting goals, providing effective feedback and conducting alignment discussions

Effective Communication

• Recognize what effective communication really is
• Understand the communication process
• Know the barriers that can cause derailment and misunderstanding
• Identify the relative importance of face-to-face communication
• Get a firm grasp of the five building blocks of managerial communication
• Learn to match the right communication method with your communication goal
• Identify the challenges and practices when communicating virtually

Understanding and Appreciating Leadership: The Art of Influencing Others

• How to develop people, value differences and encourage honest communication
• Develop your leadership style to gain commitment from employees
• Match your leadership style to your developmental needs and task at hand

Coaching for Performance

• How does coaching develop, enhance and achieve goals
• Know the requirements and importance of coaching
• Practice coaching and correcting difficult and challenging behaviours
• Identify the differences between coaching and discipline

Creating a Motivational Climate

• Define motivation and your role in creating a motivational setting
• The cost of demotivation and disengagement
• Recognize important elements of the motivational process
• Create your own practice for building a motivational climate

Delegation for Growth and Development

• Understand the different types of delegation
• Know the benefits and challenges of delegation
• Recognize your comfort with delegation
• How to conduct an effective delegation conversation
• Practice your delegation skills