Executive and Manager Training
Getting your management team on the same page is challenging. Do they know how to communicate vision, values and strategy? Are the effectively managing change, handling conflict, and developing your people?
We can work with you to ensure a cohesive management team to help propel your organization to the next level.
Our course options.
Each module below can be delivered alone or combined with others to create an integrated custom program that is tailored to your needs. We involve you in determining the exact objectives you are trying to achieve, the learning points that you want covered, and work with you to create the scenarios and exercises to ensure that we have captured your work culture and environment. Your training program will include a reference manual that follows the training delivery, an participant workbook to capture notes and exercise results, quick reference guides (where applicable), and any optionally purchased publications and assessments you choose to use.
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Once you have hired that new employee – now what? Retaining new talent is one of the biggest issues employers face today – through the world! New employees, and even existing employees, need a plan for development within your organization that sets you apart from other employers. Creating a mutually agreed-upon development path, and then monitoring its execution will go a long way to keeping talent within your organization.
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Times are changing and this workforce now comprises workers from 5 different generations. Managers must meet the challenge of managing the different perspectives and work styles effectively to remain competitive in the industry.
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You may be building a team from scratch, or working with an existing team, but how do you build them into a highly functional team? Using the 6 characteristics of effective teams, build a solid foundation for your team and use it to keep your track highly functional.
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Change is inevitable. Every organization experiences change – even more so with today’s economic climate and challenges. Equip your management team to deal effectively with change and create an environment that embraces the advantages change can bring.
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Making a good team great takes superior coaching and feedback skills. The results of your effective coaching will advance the skills of your team members, everyone gaining from the experience.
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Performance appraisals are not only stressful for the person being assessed, but also the manager who needs to prepare, document and deliver the appraisal. Learn how to effectively evaluate your staff and apply consistent rating techniques across your organization. Complete your appraisal with an effective performance appraisal meeting, complete with coaching and development plans for the future.
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Do you rely on “creative” people to come up with those creative and innovative solutions? Do you wish you were one of them? You might not consider yourself creative or innovative, but there are ways to work towards creative and innovative solutions for you and your team.
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Employers put a strong emphasis on technical skills, but why can technically brilliant people still fail at collaborating on teams and managing others? Emotional Intelligence is the ability to manage ones’ emotional brain to handle difficult situations.
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Getting your message across is even more critical when you are presenting to the executive level in your organization. Make the most out of your time, and gain buy in from your audience.
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How connected are your managers to the financial workings of your organization? Do they understand how your organization makes money, and when it is made – where the money goes? And more importantly, do they know the impact they personally can have on the success, or challenges for your organization from a financial perspective?
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Finding candidates that are suitable to your open positions is only the first step. Interviewing them effectively to determine fit and potential is a whole different matter. Make the most out of the brief time you spend with job candidates to determine how they will fit into your organization and whether they will be successful should you offer them the position.
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As one moves from the management to executive level within an organization, the skills to master relationships whether one-on-one, within a team, or throughout the organization, particularly with the executive level, become paramount. This program will focus on this relationship building and other key management theories to make the middle manager successful. Participants will develop personal action plans to enable them to put their learnings into place back on the job.
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Leadership for Middle Managers takes management to the next level. This program deals with the strategic element of management and elevating the managers’ skills to that level. Included in this program are leadership techniques specifically for middle and director level managers.
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Managers need to know what tools to use, and when to use them, when managing poor performers. Their goal is to ensure poor performers understand how they are doing, and work with them to get them back on track. Managers also need to understand when poor performance becomes a discipline problem and how to act accordingly.
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Many organizations rely on a decentralized workforce to achieve their day-to-day responsibilities. When these decentralized functions span large geographic areas, project teams may include team members who are seldom, even never, co-located with their team members. Managing the virtual team has some distinct challenges.
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Managers spend a lot of time working with their performers to get them on track – but do they devote enough time for their top performers? And, if they don’t, what happens to top performers? Managers need to learn techniques to manage their top performers and keep them on top.
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Once you’ve established a great team, you need to keep them motivated to maintain the peak performance you require. But what motivates people? Explore intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and techniques to use them.
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Learn from the research of Myers-Briggs into personality type indicators and leverage these techniques into effective working relationships. Understand your own personality and those of your coworkers, and how these personalities affect how you work, and how you interact with those around you.
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Negotiations take planning and practice to result in a situation where both parties are satisfied. Learn how the techniques to master negotiations applicable to your work environment, and other aspects of your life.
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Negotiations take planning and practice to result in a situation where both parties are satisfied. Learn how the techniques to master negotiations applicable to your work environment, and other aspects of your life.
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Working hard is not the same as working smart. A great manager knows the difference and can focus on the important tasks at hand. Understanding the difference between important and urgent, and making the right choice when setting priorities enables managers to effectively manage priorities and get results.
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There will always be problems. Since that is a given, a great manager will need to be creative and effective at problem solving. This course will show you the barriers to problem solving that you can avoid, and approaches to creating effective solutions. This is a great course for a team to attend.
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You have invested in developing a quality process, documented it, trained your employees and you still have quality issues. Is your process, or is it the culture of quality that has not taken root in your organization. This program focuses on building a culture of quality with support from your quality process.
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Help your managers understand what it takes to create a high-functioning team and what it takes to get it back on track after a downturn.
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Most organizations that deal with dangerous processes or equipment will promote Safety First, but issues still arise and accidents happen. How do you convince people to not just follow the rules, but to adopt a culture of safety? This program explores building and spreading a culture of safety to supplement your safety program.
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Effective Managers know that they need to alter their management style to match the requirements of their employees. To be most effective, managers need to know what type of management their employees need in each situation. Situational Leadership provides leaders with a simple, but effective, leadership model.
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Effective leadership is one of the most important characteristics in any successful organization. We will discuss the difference between leadership and management and the characteristics of effective leaders. We will see the 5 practices of exemplary leadership as defined by Kouses and Posner and create action plans for back at work.
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What separates great managers from great leaders is their ability to think strategically. Strategic planning takes into account goals within the organization, from unit goals through to corporate strategic goals. Being able to plan strategically to achieve these goals positions you to do it right the first time.
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Who will fill your shoes when you move up in your organization? What plans have you made to fill critical positions in your organization? Do your employees know where they are going within the organization? Developing successors is a critical management planning and development tool.
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Technical professionals are different. Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists, Project Managers and Technical Team Leaders’ responsibilities do not follow the typical hierarchical nature of organizations. Technical education and experience, and logical thought processes need to be enhanced with people skills to effectively manage and develop staff. This course focuses on their specific needs.