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Management Skills for Experienced Managers

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Lead, manage and motivate individuals and teams within a strategic context
  • Enable effective decision making in challenging situations
  • Extend alliances across the organization
  • Proactively manage change to achieve desired results
  • Focus on individual and team strengths to enhance capability and performance
  • Navigate organizational politics to get things done

Course Benefits

Because organizations must constantly change and improve results, they rely more on managers who have the vision and skills to keep their teams motivated and productive. In this course, you gain practical knowledge, skills and political savvy to become more effective at implementing strategy, addressing business challenges, decision making, leadership and motivation.

Who Should Attend

Experienced managers and middle managers who wish to enhance their ability to drive results across the organization and take their leadership skills to the next level. Management experience at the level of Course 290, "Management Skills," or Course 222, "Leadership Skills: Success Through Teamwork," is assumed.

Course Workshop

In an immersive environment, you participate in a thought-provoking case study, as well as individual and group activities, to apply management tools, techniques and strategies. Activities include the following:
  • Assessing your leadership strengths
  • Translating business strategy into a tactical plan
  • Developing a performance dashboard
  • Profiling your decision-making style
  • Building connections and networks
  • Applying a strategic change model
  • Highlighting individual and team strengths
  • Storytelling to appreciate generational differences
  • Debating the pros and cons of organizational politics
  • Customizing a road map for personal and organizational growth

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Upcoming Dates

Dec 10 - 12, 2008
 Toronto
Dec 10 - 12, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Jan 7 - 9, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Los Angeles
Feb 11 - 13, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 New York
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 25 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Apr 1 - 3, 2009
 Ottawa
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
May 20 - 22, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
May 27 - 29, 2009
 New York
Jun 3 - 5, 2009
 Los Angeles
Jun 17 - 19, 2009
 Toronto

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Management Skills for Experienced Managers

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 909 Content
 

The Role of an Experienced Manager

  • The scope of the middle management role
  • The voice of experience
  • Assessing your strengths
  • Building credibility and trust
  • Managing for results

Linking Strategy to Action

Implementing a strategic direction

  • Seeing the big picture
  • Identifying what impacts your strategy
  • Establishing and maintaining internal alignment

Translating strategy into measurable outcomes

  • Ensuring people get and stay focused on the right results
  • Building momentum using measures and milestones
  • Communicating results up and down the hierarchy

Making Tough Decisions

What makes a decision challenging

  • Dealing with the unknown
  • Problems and dilemmas
  • Recognizing cognitive and personal biases
  • Exercising good judgment when making ethical decisions

Decision-making styles

  • Identifying your own style
  • Flexing your style to gain buy-in

Implementing a decision-making model

  • Employing a step-by-step process
  • Generating and prioritizing options
  • Weighing decision criteria
  • Minimizing the potential for conflict
  • Making appropriate tradeoffs

Expanding Your Influence Across Your Organization

Eliminating "silo" thinking

  • Defining your circle of influence
  • Gaining support and commitment from others

The power of networking

  • Broadening your network through personal and professional connections
  • Creating alliances to effect positive action
  • Identifying pivotal links across the organization

Fostering Change from the Middle

The challenge of change

  • Why change is difficult
  • Helping people see the need for change
  • Inspiring action from your team

Making change happen

  • Acting as an agent of change
  • Implementing approaches that deliver effective change
  • Transforming resistance into cooperative productivity

Engaging and Mobilizing Others

Leveraging team performance for strategic results

  • Supporting improved individual and team performance
  • Eliminating performance barriers
  • Encouraging ownership and accountability in your management team
  • Effectively integrating new team members
  • Fostering teamwork in first-line managers

Harnessing individual strengths

  • Motivating others through a shared vision
  • Aligning individual purpose with organizational goals
  • Promoting individual talents and skills

Orchestrating cross-generational understanding

  • Respecting different values and approaches
  • Deciphering and interpreting style differences
  • Storytelling as a communication tool

Politics with Integrity

Organizational culture

  • Demystifying your organization's culture
  • Appreciating political dynamics
  • Recognizing the politics in internal processes and relationships
  • Valuing different perspectives

Politics: the art of getting things done

  • Politics and ethics
  • Assessing the political landscape
  • Developing your power base
  • Inspiring others in your network to take action
  • Promoting a culture of trust
 
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Management Skills for Experienced Managers Tuition

 
Course: 909   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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