Communication, Negotiation, Project Management, Presentations, Time Management, Management, Finance, Interviewing and Writing Courses, Workshops and Classes

Management Development Program

1 to 12 days

Pam Jaeger

This program can be customized to meet your company's needs by selecting from 1-12 one-day modules.

The instructor, Ms. Pam Jaeger, is certified to administer a variety of learning tools, including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Profilor, a 360-degree feedback instrument. She has completed extensive training with Synectics, a leader in creativity and innovation processes, and she is editor of Adventure in Business: An I.M.M.E.R.S.I.O.N. Approach to Training and Consulting. Ms. Jaeger has also worked with over 1000 limited English speaking clients to develop workplace specific English language skills. She holds a BA in Psychology from Wheaton College and a MA in Education from Boston University.

Module 1: The Role of the Manager
  • Brainstorm challenges and opportunities facing Frontline Managers
  • Identify critical qualities and skills needed to meet your challenges and opportunities
  • Explore the relationship between leading and managing others to grow an organization
  • Examine Personnel Decisions International’s management skills model
  • Focus on personal development and draft a Career Development Plan

    Module 2: Understanding Your Management Style
  • Increase understanding of personal behavioral tendencies/communication styles and how your behavior affects others
  • Develop awareness of different behavioral styles and increase ability to appropriately adapt behavior to motivate and meet the needs of other people
  • Increase personal awareness of how you react to conflict situations
  • Seek to honor diversity, and build trust and collaboration

    Module 3: The Manager as Communicator
  • Identify barriers to effective communication and information sharing
  • Approach communication as a 2-way process
  • Headline ideas to send clear messages
  • Demonstrate active listening
  • Practice how to give and receive feedback
  • Practice how to manage conflict and confrontation

    Module 4: The Manager as Team Leader
  • Examine a model of team development
  • Identify components of a team launch
  • Establish a common vision and aligned goals
  • Define roles and responsibilities
  • Identify internal customers
  • Evaluate performance
  • Provide recognition

    Module 5: Customer Service and Delegation Skills
    Customer Focus
  • Describe your company’s customer focused mission
  • Identify your customers and their expectations
  • Describe “moments of truth” you could provide to delight your customer
  • Demonstrate tools and techniques necessary to provide quality customer service
  • Delegation Skills
  • Identify the steps of delegating
  • Choose which tasks to delegate
  • Complete a RACI chart
  • Identify how to delegate across levels of empowerment
  • Commit to check in with employees on performance

    Module 6: Meeting Facilitation and Creative Problem Solving
  • Plan for a focused meeting
  • Demonstrate techniques for encouraging participation, creativity, and diverse points of view
  • Manage the meeting process and facilitate innovative problem solving
  • Increase understanding of how the way you interact with others affects innovation and teamwork
  • Establish clear action plans

    Module 7: Presentation Skills
  • Organize presentations to facilitate audience interest and understanding
  • Deliver presentations utilizing effective verbal communication
  • Establish platform presence with effective non-verbal communication
  • Spontaneously adjust your presentation based on audience reaction and be willing to alter the original plan, if necessary
  • Select and utilize visual aids that truly enhance the quality of the presentation.
  • Enjoy presenting!

    Module 8: Performance Planning and Goal Setting
  • Adapt an organizational view of performance management
  • Approach performance management as an on-going, continuous process
  • Examine how the company’s strategic plan translates to your functional area
  • Develop “SMART” performance goals that cascade from company and functional goals and are aligned with internal customer needs

    Module 9: Career Development Planning
  • Complete a professional skills and/or competency inventory
  • Analyze skills in light of performance goals and inventory assessment
  • Use resource materials to generate ideas for development planning
  • Write a Career Development Plan

    Module 10: Performance Coaching
  • Describe coaching as a style, skill, and planned event
  • Analyze behavioral issues as a specific function of performance
  • Demonstrate 4-step performance coaching process
  • Clearly state behavior targeted for coaching
  • Use active listening to gain an understanding of the other person
  • Concentrate on resolving areas of disagreement, conflict, or confusion
  • Mutually develop and agree upon action plans

    Module 11: Conducting the Performance Review
  • Examine the performance review process
  • Measure results against performance goals, CDP and current skill assessment
  • Identify the overall rating
  • Practice the annual review discussion
  • Identify situations that require corrective action and manage the action plan appropriately

    Module 12: Behavioral Interviewing
  • Examine the interview process
  • Understand the value of a behavior-based interview and the impact of turnover
  • Write behavior-based interview questions
  • Screen resumes and portfolios to extract meaningful data
  • Practice interviewing




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