Advanced Strategic Planning & Implementing Strategic Plans for Institutional Excellence
Course Code: MN05
Course Objective
- Know what real supervision is, and be able to explain to others what it is, and what it means
- Understand and practice basic supervisory skills
- Define the difference between the supervisory and the operational roles
- Explain how to set and monitor objectives
- Explain what motivates you and describe ways to motivate others effectively
- Manage performance for results
- Use different techniques to communicate effectively with your Team
Target Audience
- Managers
- Senior buyers
- Project Managers, Civil Engineers
- Construction Managers
- Contractors, Sub-Contractors
- Site Engineers, Senior Management
- government agencies
- Architects, Construction Professionals
- Anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.
- Purchasing, Supply Chain Managers and Project Managers.
Course Outline
Day 1: What is a Supervisor?
- Should you be a supervisor?
- Making the transition
- The difference between doing and supervising
- Highs and lows of the supervisory role
- What are the skills of an effective supervisor?
- Developing the skills
- Different ways to supervise others
- Supervisory styles
- Common mistakes you don’t want to make
Day 2: Managing Performance – Getting Results
- Characteristics of Performance Management
- Business Plan basics
- Assessing your current situation
- You and the business plan
- Getting productivity through people
- The importance of strategic Goal Setting
- Develop the 5 Success essentials
- Getting and managing results
- How to develop Pro-Active management
- Benefits and barriers to delegation
- How, when and to whom to delegate
- Getting it done right – instructing others
Day 3: Managing Performance – Problems and People
- What motivates me?
- What motivates others?
- What does Motivation do?
- Motivation creates energy
- The 3 Major steps of motivation
- Motivation in the workplace
- Herzberg’s Motivational Theory
- Tailoring motivation ideas to individual team members
- How to manage conflict
- Working with different types of personalities
- What to do when a problem arises
- Listening and questioning skills
Day 4: Managing Communication
- What is Communication?
- Three major levels of Communication
- The significance of Non-Verbal Communication
- Factors that affect your Communication
- Communication Chart
- Effective ways to Communicate
- Brain Communication impact
- Communication cycle
- Delivering clear, concise messages
- How to make an effective presentation
- 9 Effective Communication principles
- Positive Visual imaging
- Good / Bad relationships
- Planning a Team meeting
- How to be a decisive Decision maker
- Improving your ability to make decisions
- Verbal communication
- Barriers to communication
- Team communications
- Running a team meeting
- Choosing the right words
- Communicating in writing
Day 5: Building Powerful Influence
- What is personal empowerment?
- Sources of personal power
- Developing your Mind, Attitude, Appreciation & Character influence
- Mind Think power
- Know the impact of Teleological Thinking
- Replacement Principle
- Building your personal power
- Using your personal power
- Building trust and believability: walking your talk
- 10 Essential Qualities of a Top Supervisor
- Planning for your future – developing yourself
- How to stay Motivated
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