Management Training
Change the way you manage individuals, teams, and performances. Participants will make the shift from firefighting, ad-hoc 'command and control' to developing a proactive, collaborative culture.

This program focuses on your skills as a manager to motivate and coach each of your individual employees. You will make the shift from firefighting, ad-hoc 'command and control', to developing a proactive, collaborative culture. One based in challenging dialogue, aligning employee values and ambitions with those of the company.
For who?
Leading individuals, teams & performances
After completing the training
- You can lead as a manager using constructive interpersonal communication.
- Improve control of oneself, others, and the business.
- Manage and excel during turbulent times by priority-setting and re-alignment.
- Reinforce employee engagement and development. You can empower, delegate, give feedback, help in goal setting, and coach for observable impact.
- Improve your productivity, be better prepared, inspire, handle challenging meetings, and take ownership of actions.
- Develop a healthy flow of initiatives, solicitation, and involvement.
- Build a sustainable culture by aligning employee values and ambitions with those of the company.
Program
1
- Exemplarity and the principles of human capital development
- Key stakeholder analysis: my positioning towards myself, others, and my environment
- Perception and reality: the way we spontaneously interact with others
- A constructive attitude is the starting point for a fair judgment
- The power of influence and awareness: the 3 laws
- Delegation, empowerment, and accountability
- Communicating a difficult decision
2
- Learning from experience– results of the first day’s training
- Balancing styles between involving and directing
- Setting objectives and expectations
- Understanding people and performance, the art of questioning and listening
- Control and handling of different performance situations
- Growing people: the evolution method in the context of coaching and development meetings
3
- Check the progress of my learning goals – managing performance
- Understanding deep motivation drivers, using ascending questions
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Change: stages of discovery, the mourning curve, accompanying transition, and resistance
- Conveying an impactful change message to a group
- Embrace the "Yes, and..." attitude
4
- Check the progress of my learning goals – coaching and developing people
- Saying No is saying Yes to something else
- Dealing with challenging situations and group negotiations
- Realignment: handling deviations to preserve company values and employee alignment
- Handling conflict
5
- Check the progress of my learning goals – managing the roadblocks to change
- Working session and managing creativity – roles and attitudes
- Venturing initiatives: presenting a project or recommendation upward
- The manager-coach: identify the problem, and gain acceptance so the solution can emerge
- My brand and further development
Learning Tools

- The most important point to profit from the learning journey: apply your learnings!
- Action plans are defined already in the training room to allow the participant to evaluate his progress against his own standards in daily life

- During sessions with their peers only, people coach each other on concrete situations
- Leverage collective intelligence to solve problems
- Alternatively practice on how to listen, ask questions and give feedback.

- In a one-to-one meeting, the participant and their manager discuss and define the goals to be reached with this training
- Only if the participant knows what the manager and the employer is expecting from him, they can work towards the expected results

- Lively, interactive training days are the backbone of the learning journey.
- Positive confrontation and feedback stimulate to change the behavior.
- Interaction within the group allows to learn from peers in a safe yet challenging environment

- Smart and easily accessible reminders of key lessons learned.
- Customisation possible.

- Online survey which gives participants a clear view on the impact of their own behaviors.
- Gets stakeholders around the participant involved in the learning journey.
- Creates favorable conditions to give and receive feedback.
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