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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.

  • 5 months
  • 5 days
  • Dutch, English, French

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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Location
Hoofddorp
NH Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Kruisweg 495
2132 NA Hoofddorp
Netherlands

Training days
Oct 17, 2024
Nov 14, 2024
Dec 12, 2024
Jan 16, 2025
Feb 13, 2025

Language
Dutch

Price
EUR 5599 (excl. VAT)
Location
Rotterdam
nhow Rotterdam
Wilhelminakade 137
3072 AP Rotterdam
Netherlands

Training days
Oct 17, 2024
Nov 21, 2024
Dec 19, 2024
Jan 23, 2025
Feb 13, 2025

Language
Dutch

Price
EUR 5599 (excl. VAT)
Location
Hoofddorp
NH Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Kruisweg 495
2132 NA Hoofddorp
Netherlands

Training days
Nov 19, 2024
Dec 17, 2024
Jan 14, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025

Language
English

Price
EUR 5599 (excl. VAT)