Managing & Motivating Towards Excellence: Skills, Competencies, Traits & Techniques
Course Code: MN16
Course Objective
- Gain insights into their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership styles
- Be able to understand the emotional makeup of their teams, colleagues and customers
- Have begun to develop leadership competencies and skills to motivate employees
- Understand and begin to practice innovative leadership
- Have built a foundation for continuous Improvement
- Be able to harness their employees’ emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace
- Understand and practice key people skills to motivate towards excellence
Target Audience
This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.
Course Outline
DAY 1
The Manager as a Strategist
- The changing reality of organizational life
- New challenges and roles of the surviving manager
- Stakeholder analysis
- The challenges of motivating employees
- Strategic performance drivers of an effective organization
- The difference between leading and managing
- Creating a compelling strategic vision
- The power of living the values
DAY 2
The Manager as a Coach
- Personal leadership styles
- Creating a personal legacy
- Case study – Leadership: The Art of Possibilities
- The value of good relationships
- The impact of expectations on performance
- Engaging employees on setting stretch goals
- Effective coaching meetings
- Creating individualized learning plans
DAY 3
The Manager as the Project Team Facilitator
- Meetings: the #1 time waster
- Reducing meeting times by 50% and more
- The role of the facilitator
- The 5 types of meetings
- Creating an agenda that focuses process and content
- Dealing with dysfunctional meeting behaviours
- Encouraging creativity and innovation
- Ensuring that accountability is clear and actions are followed up
DAY 4
The Manager as Team Leader
- Teamwork best practices
- Creating a high-performance team
- Empowerment and its link to performance
- Team decision making: when and how to achieve a consensus
- Performance measurement
- The 4 stages of team development
- Team-building techniques
- Conflict resolution
- Recognition and reward
DAY 5
The Manager as Change Agent
- The challenge of personal change
- Six typical reaction to change
- The top attributes of change agents
- Influencing upward
- Six sources of power
- The importance of humility
- The secrets of assertiveness
- When to seek help
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