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In-Person, Online streaming
Duration:
5 Days
Introduction to the course
This Competent Manager training course will provide you with the essential tools and skills necessary to manage your team as a professional and competent manager. During this highly interactive and fun course, you will discover many aspects of how modern managers need to interact with those around them. It is a unique opportunity to learn, practice and hone a wide range of tried and tested and cutting edge techniques for managing people. This Management & Leadership training course on The Competent Manager will build your confidence, ensuring the very best from your team performance, managing in a way that will motivate and inspire those around you to achieve greater productivity and results. Attending will aid you in your quest to become a competent manager.
In this KC Academy training course, you will:
- Identify the key skills and competencies required by a professional and competent manager
- Learn the essential skills to lead and develop your team
- Enhance your communications in all areas of the workplace
- Discover effective ways of managing performance for you and your team
- Build strategies for negotiating, influencing and persuading those you work with
Course details
By the end of this Competent Manager training course, you will be able to:
- Develop and understand the crucial skills and competencies required to become a competent manager
- Explore and create a better understanding of different approaches to management, whilst enhancing your own leadership style
- Learn how to manage performance of teams and individuals
- Manage and develop teams high performance teams
- Challenge and improve the necessary skills of the competent manager to negotiate, influence and persuade
- Create a compelling and exciting continuous professional development plan to enhance your career
This training course on The Competent Manager is carefully designed to address all styles of learning and to engage participants fully. Lectures, videos and discussions are either preceded or followed by powerful individual or group exercises. These exercises provide opportunities for personal participation in real situations, where delegates will be able to examine their own working practices and experiment with new ones, within the safe environment of the training room. Delegates will also learn from the experiences of other delegates who come from a variety of multi-disciplinary departments and organizations. This process makes training fun filled, fast-paced, challenging and empowering.
- Highly trained and motivated managers who will be able to raise performance standards and morale of their staff and colleagues
- Improved leadership, supervisory and management skills
- Improved productivity of the workforce
- Improved inter-team working
- More effective, efficient and successful teams and individuals
- Improved staff performance through continual personal development
As a direct result of attending this training course, you will:
- Be able to identify the appropriate management model to improve individual and team performances
- Be able to create and monitor a continual personal development plan for yourself and your staff
- Have the necessary skills to be able to establish clear and concise goals for the organization, department and employees
- Be confident to plan and manage coaching sessions effectively
- Gain a greater understanding of highly effective management tools
- Develop the ability to motivate and develop your staff
This training course on The Competent Manager is designed for the following:
- Professionals in all functional areas of the organization
- Professionals who are operating at a first line or middle management level and wish to consolidate their management experience
- Anyone who is aspiring for a management position
Daily Agenda
DAY 1:
Training Course Introduction and Objectives
- What are The Key Roles of Competent Managers?
- Essential Skills and Competencies required for The Role
- Understanding How Management has to Adapt to Culture
- The New Business Reality and Its Impact on Managers
- Building A Professional Development Plan
- Creating Business Culture within Our Teams
- Embedding Positive Behavioral Standards
- Risk, Reward and Motivation
DAY 2:
Establishing the Difference Between Management and Leadership
- Alternative Approaches to Management
- What is Your Own Leadership and Management Style?
- The Impact Your Leadership and Management Style has on Other People
- The Crucial Link between Personality Styles and Assigning Responsibility
- Understanding The Mind-set of Your Staff
- The Art of Running Effective Team Meetings
- The Dreaded Performance Improvement Meetings
- Time Management: Using Your Time More Effectively
DAY 3:
Understanding The Performance Management Cycle
- Identifying and Agreeing Individual and Team Objectives
- Essential Skills to Ensure Excellent Performance
- Monitoring Performance Ethically
- Professional Ways to Review Performance and Offer Feedback
- Effective Questioning Models
- Silent Coaching to Improve Individual Performance
- Listening: A Manager’s Greatest Weapon
- Motivation: Modelling from Others via The Four Quadrant Technique
DAY 4:
Identifying Stages of Team Development
- Understanding The Difference between A Group and A Team
- Belbin Team Roles and Their Contribution to A Successful Team
- Identifying and Preparing For Effective Team Development
- How to Present Our Ideas to The Team
- Communication Tools For Managers
- Creating A Culture of Recognition
- The Recognition Formula
DAY 5:
Negotiation Styles and When They Might be Appropriate
- Influencing Your Line Manager, Colleagues and Customer
- The Power of Persuasion: Identifying Appropriate Opportunities and Strategies
- Negotiation Secrets to Help Win
- Letting The Other Person Save Face: The Ethics of Negotiation
- Elite Negotiators – case studies from around the globe
- Continuing Development Schedule – Why is it important?
- Readers are Leaders
Frequently Asked Questions
There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.
You should have an up-to-date web browser such as: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. For more detailed information, please see the guides for supported browsers and basic computer specifications. Our Online Courses can be accessed on a mobile or tablet device, although we strongly encourage you to have access to a desktop or laptop computer and reliable internet connection for certain course components. Former students have told us it is easiest to read discussion threads and complete written assignments on a laptop or desktop computer.
Registration is available on our website. Just follow these simple steps: Click the “Apply Now” button in the top right corner of your screen. Select “Online Courses.” Choose your course(s). You will be asked for basic contact information and your credit card payment. We require full payment at the time of registration and all tuition is billed in US dollars. Be sure to check with your bank or credit card company, as your financial institution may charge a foreign transaction fee.
Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.
It is recommended that you begin your course promptly. If you do need to start the course a few days late, contact your instructor as soon as possible after the course has opened to discuss your options. Registration closes on the Friday after the course begins.
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