Introduction
10 Tools for Highly Effective Managers
It is a Five-days program that aims to help managers and business owners to use a holistic approach to attend matters and improve their area of weaknesses, using an activity-oriented and experiential learning environment. The simulated management activities provide a perfect setting to encourage participation and active learning, Among the highlights of the workshop, was the boardroom experience using famous TV live series: ‘The Apprentice’ and ‘You are Fired’ to understand more on the strengths and weaknesses of each member of their team including themselves in a given project management scenario.
10 Tools for Highly Effective Managers
- How to Lead Your People
- How to Think Strategically
- How to Solve Problems & Make Effective Decisions
- How to Manage Time
- How to Stay Stressfree & Well
- How to Build Great Teams
- How to Communicate & Interpersonalise
- How to Delegate & Empower
- How to Encourage Innovation & Creativity
- How to Focus on Results through Your People
Course Objectives of 10 Tools for Highly Effective Managers
- Understand and develop skills necessary for new managers/supervisors
- Learn the importance of managing strategic thinking
- Learn how to set goals and plan effectively and efficiently
- Develop an ability to establish a customer focus in management
- Develop positive interpersonal techniques for better people relationships
- Improve their ability to make higher quality decisions
- Apply concepts of team building, team performance, and motivation
- Learn how to establish and maintain time management techniques
- Understand the role of stakeholders and learn techniques of stakeholder management
- Understand how to develop productive communication techniques
- Understand the importance of performance standards, goals and objectives
- Develop improvement plans to accomplish work and improve performance
Course Outlines of 10 Tools for Highly Effective Managers
Course Content of 10 Tools for Highly Effective Managers
Day 1
How To Lead Your People
- Definition of a Leader
- Definition of a Manager
- Difference between a Leader and a Manager
- •Tomorrow's Company versus Yesterday's Company
- The Leader of a Tomorrow's Company
- 6 Leadership Styles
- Attributes of Leaders
- Leadership Tension
How To Think Strategically
- Strategic Thinking Defined
- 4 Levels of Strategic Thinking
- The Strategy/Operations Relationship
- Strategic Thinking Leading to Strategic Management
- 3 Ws and 2 Hs
Day 2
How to Solve Problems & Make Effective Decisions
- 5 Key Steps in decision-making
- The ADADA Model
- Barriers to Effective Decision-Making
- The "Ishikawa" Model in Problem-Solving
- Man-Method-Material-Machine
- Basic Steps & Rules in Problem-Solving
How to Manage Time
- Recording Time
- Analyzing Time
- Planning Time
- Managing your Roles and not your Time
- The Yearly Planner
- The Weekly Worksheet
- The Daily Work Plan
- Checklist for effective use of time
How to Stay Stressfree & Well
- Two Types of Stress
- Signs & Symptoms of Stress
- How to Manage Stress
- Type 'A' and Type 'B' Personality
- Managing Your Health
Day 3
How to Build Great Teams
- Actively Building Relationships
- Encouraging and Stimulating Others
- Wide Range of Incentives
- Evaluating and Enhancing People's Capabilities
- Respect for views and actions of others
- Sensitively to the needs and feelings
- Using power and authority
- Setting objectives which are both achievable and challenging
- Commitment to a specific course of action
- Using a variety of techniques to promote morale and productivity
- Communicating a Vision
How to Communicate & Interpersonalise
- How should I communicate?
- Types of Non-Verbal Communication
- Communication Skills
- Presentation Skills: 6 Key Steps
- Do's and Dont's on Delivery
Day 4
How to Delegate & Empower
- The Difference between Delegation and Empowerment
- Why Delegation?
- Benefits of Delegation
- Reasons why people fail to delegate
- Activities included in Delegation
- A Process for Effective Delegation
- Why is Empowerment Important?
- Benefits of Empowerment
- How to empower employees?
- Guidelines for implementing and improving Empowerment
- Specific Techniques that can be used to Empower a Workforce
Day 5
How to Encourage Innovation & Creativity
- Can Creativity be Taught?
- Right Brain and Left Brain Thinking
- How Creative Are You?
- 8 Steps to Developing Creative Thinking Skills
- 10 Barriers to Creativity
- 12 Questions to Spur the Imagination
- 8 Steps towards stimulating a creative environment
How to Focus on Result through Your People
- Planning and Prioritizing
- Focus on Objectives
- Tackle Problems and Take Advantage of Opportunities
- Set Objectives in Uncertain and Complex Situations
- Focus Personal Attention on Specific Details
- Striving for Excellence
- Actively seek to do things better
- Use change as an opportunity for improvement
- Establish and Communicate High Expectations
- Set Goals that are demanding of self and others
- Benchmarking