Introduction

This seminar offers a chance to step back from daily managerial pressures and focus on broader strategic and organizational goals. Participants will gain tools to analyze forces shaping their organization, develop a strategic vision, and manage performance effectively. Learn to interpret organizational culture, build trust and influence, and delegate with confidence. This program equips you with the skills to set meaningful long-term objectives for personal and organizational success.

Objectives

• Describe the effect of the external and competitive environment on their organization

• Select appropriate methods for measuring and managing performance

• Describe their organization’s culture and climate and their effects on performance

• Link human resource management to strategic objectives

• Consider a range of approaches to delegation

• Select appropriate strategies for influencing and motivating others

Methodology

The seminar will combine presentations with facilitated discussions, interactive practical exercises, small-group activities, and case studies. The course is delivered in a highly interactive style and will be supported by case studies and video to enhance the learning experience

Organizational Impact 

• Have a clear understanding of management essentials

• Be better able to coach and improve productivity

• Better understand their own strengths and weaknesses

• Be more confident to take bold decisions

• Have a better knowledge of dealing upwards in an organization

• Return with renewed energy and passion to manage their team

Personal Impact 

• Reflect on your own management style so that you can improve

• Learn how to win people to your way of thinking

• Learn how to deal with difficult and lazy employees

• Learn how to take control of your time

• Learn how to manage upwards as well as with your team

• Learn how to motivate and create a culture of responsibility

Outlines

Day 1: Strategic Orientation

• Strategic context: the external environment

• The new business reality

• Predictable trends in business

• Competitive forces

• Stakeholder analysis

• Strategic resources and constraints

• Creating a compelling strategic vision

• Creativity and change

Day 2: Managing Resources and Performance

• Aligning vision, aims, and objectives

• Performance measurement

• From measurement to improvement

• Coaching process to correct poor performance

• Coaching to challenge

• Self-coaching and the power to change

• Coaching and influencing upwards

• Risk and its management

Day 3: Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

• Organizational form

• Culture, climate, values, and norms

• Team and group dynamics

• Assigning responsibilities

• Deputize to free up time

• Fundamentals of human resource management

• Appraisal and reward

• Learning and development

Day 4: Key Management Competencies: Prioritisation, Time Management, and Delegation

• Balancing the important and the urgent

• Setting personal goals

• Creating time from nothing

• Batching and how it can win back time

• Income-producing activities

• Getting things done through other people

• Delegation and empowerment

• Management case study

Day 5: Linking Management to Leadership: Influence, Motivation, and Trust

• Negotiation and persuasion: the pillars of influence

• The secret six in business negotiation

• The nature of motivation

• The trust bank account

• Ethics

• Personal leadership style

• Leadership in action: group exercise

• Balancing work and home life