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Management Essentials

2 days

Pam Jaeger, Andrew Oravets

Supervisors, first-line and middle managers will find this two-day workshop relevant and useful. Participants leave with a clear understanding of leadership; the strengths and weaknesses of their personal style; and key skills, such as how to set direction for a group, reinforce productive behavior, and deal confidently with performance problems.


Knowing Yourself
  • Leadership Self-Assessment
  • Clarifying the strengths and liabilities of your operating style
  • Exploiting your strengths, managing your weaknesses
  • Embodying your core management values on the job

  • Understanding Others
  • Recognizing the strengths of your group
  • Adjusting your style and demonstrating flexibility to get a better hearing
  • Increasing your decision-making effectiveness

  • Setting Direction
  • Selecting a group strategy: efficiency, responsiveness, initiation?
  • Creating a group mission
  • Setting goals, priorities, and expectations
  • Creating a climate of accountability
  • Getting results – the art of making effective requests

  • Positioning Your Team for Success
  • Aligning with your boss
  • Identifying key internal and external customers
  • Negotiating roles with other groups
  • Overcoming the challenges of culture and distance

  • Coaching – Key to Getting Results with Others
  • Assuming a coaching mentality
  • Choosing a delegation strategy for each situation
  • Staying in touch – conducting 1:1 update conferences
  • Rewarding and developing high performers and top talent

  • Dealing with Performance Issues
  • Describing problems while avoiding blame
  • Dealing with resistance
  • Dealing with performance issues

  • On-going Development
  • Your action plan for increasing your contribution to your company





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