PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP™ – Middle Management

DESCRIPTION

The Professional Management Leadership™ workshop provides an in-depth understanding of the professional role of the management leader including his/her accountability for planning, organising, leading, and controlling the work in his/her area of responsibility. It is delivered utilising instructor-led presentations, group discussion, individual and group exercises, case studies, and reading. An emphasis is placed on post workshop application and skill transference.

FORMAT

The Professional Management Leadership™ workshop is a four-day interactive, instructor-led, learning experience. This can be followed by an optional 12-week on-the-job business improvement project and assessment.

TARGET GROUP

This workshop is intended for middle management, as well as business owners. It is ideal for participants with previous management experience and a basic understanding of management concepts.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understanding a logical, interactive management system for optimal results as well as the role and key activities of Professional Management Leadership.
• Learn how effective Management Leaders LEAD through and with others towards common goals
• Learn how to manage performance effectively through applying key PLANNING and CONTROLLING
• Learn how to ORGANISE resources and activities so that people can take effective action.
• Apply effective problem-solving and develop action plans to implement solutions that have a direct bottom-line impact.
• Implement an on-the-job business improvement project applying the principles and techniques learned (optional).

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

• Section 1: Management Leadership
• Section 2: Management as a System
• Section 3: Leading
• Section 4:Planning
• Section 5: Organising
• Section 6: Controlling
• Section 7: Managing Performance
• Section 8: Management Toolbox
• Section 9: Applying the Management System

BENEFITS

Increased management leadership effectiveness

Through understanding the logical and interactive Allen Management System™, participants know ‘what’ and ‘how’ to perform Management Work for optimal results.

Speaking a common management language

Using a common Management System ensures that managers talk the same management language and therefore are more effective as a management team.

Increased awareness on effective management leadership behaviours

Understanding the difference between unconscious and conscious behaviours, and the impact of these behaviours on team members and bottom-line results, increases participants’ self-awareness that could potentially drive changes in their management leadership style.

Sharpen planning, organising, leading and controlling skills

This workshop helps participants to contextualise and refine their management knowledge as well as their ability to plan, organise, lead and control resources through core processes towards the achievement of specific measurable results.

Managing performance effectively

Our system’s approach to effectively managing performance provides participants with an easily understandable model and practical templates. By the end of the workshop, participants’ will have completed a first-draft performance contract comprising all six elements of an effective Performance Management system.

Increased problem-solving skills

A key focus of this workshop is on the ability to analyse issues effectively in order to identify the underlying root cause before action plans are developed. Ensuring that real problems rather than symptoms are solved saves money and increases the impact on business operations.

Managing performance effectively

Our system’s approach to effectively managing performance provides participants with an easily understandable model and practical templates. By the end of the workshop, participants’ will have completed a first-draft performance contract comprising all six elements of an effective Performance Management system.

Increased problem-solving skills

A key focus of this workshop is on the ability to analyse issues effectively in order to identify the underlying root cause before action plans are developed. Ensuring that real problems rather than symptoms are solved saves money and increases the impact on business operations.

Practical Application

Our approach ensures concepts; principles and techniques are applied through the use of practical exercises, tools, templates and an on-the-job business improvement project. The before- and after-picture results of the project are also measured in order to high-light the impact the participant had on bottom-line business results through this development process.

MATERIALS

Each participant will receive:

The Professional Management Leadership™ manual, workbook, hand-outs as well as a flash-drive with all essential documents and summaries.

Professional Management Leadership™ is accredited through the Services SETA on a NQF Level 5 with 12 credits.

Fullray is an accredited provider of all Louis Allen™ management leadership development programs within Sub-Saharan Africa.