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PDHEM: Highly Effective Management

Guaranteed to Run Scheduled Fully Booked

Location

Christchurch

Wellington

Jun 2021

Aug 2021

Nov 2021

Code: PDHEM

Length: 2 Days

Overview

This Highly Effective Management Training Course will focus on management challenges and offer managers opportunities to develop key skills that can be put into practice on a daily basis.

Delivery format(s)

On-Site

Classroom

OBJECTIVES

All managers need a framework in which to operate. Managers need to know the most effective techniques for guiding teams, mentoring individuals, and validating the results. Without solid methods, managers will revert back to using a one-size-fits-all approach to management that may impact on employee morale, productivity and retention.

This Highly Effective Management Training Course will focus on management challenges and offer managers opportunities to develop key skills that can be put into practice on a daily basis.

This course is delivered in partnership with PD Training.

PREREQUISITES

None.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Define 'management'
Explain the Ethics & Social Responsibility of Management
Manage business information
Explore managerial decision making
Define control processes (what, why, how)
Master Organisational Strategy & how to create a sustainable, competitive advantage
Foster innovation & change in the workplace
Explore organisational design & structures
Leverage organisational strategies to facilitate change
Create structures & processes to manage teams
Gain insight into organisational motivation & leadership
Implement motivation & leadership strategies

COURSE OUTLINE

Lesson 1 - Introduction to Management What is Management? What do Managers do? What does it take to be a Manager? Why does management matter?	Lesson 2 - Ethics and Social Responsibility What is ethical workplace behaviour? What is unethical workplace behaviour? How to make ethical decisions What is social responsibility?
Lesson 3 - Managing Information Why information matters Strategic importance of information Characteristics and costs of useful Information Getting and sharing Information	Lesson 4 - Decision-Making What is rational decision-making? Steps to rational decision-making Limits to rational decision-making Improving decision-making
Lesson 5 - Control Basics of control The control process Is control necessary or possible? How and what to control Control methods	Lesson 6 - Organisational Strategy Basics of Organisational Strategy Sustainable competitive advantage Strategy-making process Corporate, industry, firm level strategies
Lesson 7 - Innovation and Change Organisational innovation Why innovation matters Managing innovation Organisational change Why change occurs and why it matters Principles of Managing change	Lesson 8 - Organisational Structures and Process Departmentalisation Organisational authority Job design Designing organisational process
Lesson 9 - Managing Teams Kinds of teams The good and the bad of using teams Work team characteristics Enhancing work team effectiveness	Lesson 10 - Motivation and Leadership Basics of motivation Equity theory Expectancy theory What is leadership? Situational leadership Strategic leadership

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