Corporate training | Help for the new manager on the block!

Supporting those transitioning into a management role

Today’s economic realities mean many professional and technical staff end up having to juggle people management alongside their professional or operational role.  Without the right people skills and techniques, they find themselves knee-deep in people management problems.  It probably saps their energies.  It gets in the way of their professional role, organisational success and service provision or income generation.  Even if they are officially promoted into a management position, they may actually become a reluctant manager and, without training and support, will easily gravitate back to an operational comfort zone.  So a corporate training course, designed specifically to fit your busienss culture and priorities can go a long way to reducing the pain and overcoming the people management challenges.

Highlights of our ‘Help for the new manager’ corporate training course

• Overcoming the 3 top challenges of being a manager
• Acquiring the skills and confidence to deal with management situations
• Improving personal effectiveness
• Developing soft/tactical skills to deal appropriately with staff, peers, and clients
• Performance managing the team

Benefits

People get promoted most often on the basis of doing a great job. They’ve succeeded because of their expertise in their profession, systems, products and processes. So now they find themselves a manager responsible for other people. They probably don’t have much experience of doing this and they haven’t been trained. They may even be causing more problems than they are solving.  If they are not supported everyone will lose out. This intensive corporate training programme gives them the skills and confidence they need and as a result reduces the frustrations of managing people!

Key takeaways from our corporate training programme for new or reluctant managers:

• How to manage the task, the team and the individual
• Knowing the difference between operating and managing
• Choosing from different management styles
• Improving communication skills , enhancing charisma and impact
• Establishing priorities,  delegating and not just allocating
• How to motivate people
• Making appraisal work and managing performance
• Setting SMARTER objectives, devising personal development plans
• How to run Team Briefings