The Practical MBA - Managing By Your Actions (2 day course)
Training Description
A manager's effectiveness depends on the manager! This 2 day course provides a unique opportunity for a manager, or aspiring supervisor / manager, to step back and critically review how they manage and lead others. The review is very interactive and the course content very practical. Each delegate will receive feedback on the way they manage, which is done in a supportive, confidential and safe environment. Each delegate will prepare a personal action plan, which is both challenged and supported by other delegates.The Course Suits
All those managers who are striving to improve management performance and effectiveness.Training Benefits
- An awareness of their communication style.
- A realisation that team empowerment is about actions not words.
- A method to assess the likely cause of low commitment from others.
- A more sensitive way for dealing with people.
- The opportunity to check their current work / life balance.
- A range of techniques that will improve understanding of both people and problems.
- Personal feedback on their style of managing others.
- A practical action plan.
Course Timetable
Day 109:30 - 10:00 Coffee, introductions and personal objectives
10:00 - 10:30 My style of communication
(Questionnaire)
10:30 - 11:15 Giving and receiving feedback applied to first impressions
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Team exercise
12:00 - 13:00 Empowerment is about action not words (Delegate led session)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 Team exercise.
14:45 - 15:15 Gaining commitment from others.
15:15 - 16:15 Personal motivation using the work / life balance approach.
16:15 - 16:30 Review of day.
Day 2
09:30 - 09:45 Progress against personal objectives
09:45 - 10:30 Team exercise
10:30 - 11:15 How well do we really understand people? (Group skill level measured)
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Techniques to deepen understanding
12:00 - 13:00 Practice using delegate examples
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Team exercise
14:30 - 15:30 “Closing the gap”
(Personal feedback session)
15:30 - 15:45 Personal action plans
15:45 - 16:00 Support and challenge groups
16:00 - 16:30 “Live issues” discussion
(Overcoming implementation problems)
16:30 Summary & Action Plans Agreed
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The Practical MBA - Managing By Your Actions (2 day course) training course available to book:
Description:
A completely updated and rewritten edition of this classic best-selling book. This is a succinct distillation of the skills that people need to develop to be consistently successful in business. Most people cannot afford to give up two years to study for an MBA. This practical, pithy book presents all the essential theory, practice and techniques taught to MBA students and is ideal for the busy practising executive. The book is divided into three main parts: personal development, management skills and business development.
The authors:
- Barrie Pearson is Executive Chairman of Livingstone Group Guarantee plc, based in London. He provides practical help and advice to clients ranging from multinational groups to private companies, in the areas of corporate strategy, acquisitions, disposals, buy-outs and corporate finance.
- Neil Thomas is former Chairman of Hawksmere Group Limited, seminar and training specialists.
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