Management Skills Training

Course Outline

In this Management Skills Training course, you will learn the fundamental management skills and leadership competencies, including how to: 

  • Motivate and empower your teammates with passion 
  • Facilitate effective communication 
  • Delegate tasks clearly 
  • Develop a proactive customer-focused approach  
  • Enhance your leadership abilities through emotional intelligence 

Management Skills Training Benefits

  • Apply core management behaviors and techniques to deliver optimal results

  • Enhance leadership ability by developing emotional intelligence

  • Communicate with, motivate, and empower your team

  • Delegate work to individuals and teams

  • Develop a management vision for success

  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

Management Skills Training Outline

Module 1: Setting the Stage for Great Management

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Define customer success 
  • Establish a sense of direction based on customer and organizational vision 
  • Adopt a continuous improvement mindset 
  • Empower people for high performance 
  • Identify stakeholder needs 
  • Map the stakeholder environment 
  • Identify mutual and conflicting expectations 
  • Establish success criteria for your team 

Module 2: Applying a Model for Management Excellence

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Make the transition from expert to manager 
  • Manage people with more experience and skill 
  • Develop a management role model 
  • Adapt the model to your managerial situation

Module 3: Managing with Emotional Intelligence (EI)

In this module, you will learn how to:  

  • Develop three key interpersonal skills 
  • Work with others by applying integral interpersonal skills 
  • Respond appropriately in important situations 
  • Use emotional intelligence (EI) to lead by example

Module 4: Motivating Individuals for Performance

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Avoid the top demotivators 
  • Leverage motivators that work for everyone 
  • Maximize your impact on motivation 
  • Match motivators to individual expectations 
  • Identify people's basic needs 
  • Recognize and respond to generational differences 
  • Develop and apply a motivational strategy

Module 5: The Art of Delegation

In this module, you will learn how to:  

  • Create a spirit of partnership 
  • Set common goals for your team  
  • Apply a proven step-by-step process for delegation 
  • Determine individual strengths 
  • Build on natural talents 
  • Collaborate effectively for successful outcomes

Module 6: Achieving Goals Through People

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Set group norms for yourself and your team 
  • Establish shared purpose and mutual accountability 
  • Create an environment conducive to collaboration 
  • Enhance communication through a three-layer goal clarification model

Module 7: A Proactive Approach to Managing Performance

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Encourage others to achieve their potential 
  • Utilize continuous appraisal techniques 
  • Integrate coaching and appraisal to build performance 
  • Intervene effectively when performance goes off track 
  • Reinforce and redirect behaviors with constructive feedback

Module 8: Finding and Applying Your Management Style

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Craft your personal approach to management 
  • Create momentum and flexibility in your team 
  • Take action to implement your personal goals 
  • Challenge organizational constraints
Course Dates - North America
Course Dates - Europe
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