Managers’ Essential Tool Kit

Create Unstoppable Leaders using the Managers Essential Tool Kit!

Eliminate performance issues, defensiveness, complacency, wasted time and more!

 

MANAGERS’ ESSENTIAL TOOL KIT  – WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Most managers are promoted because of their technical competence. And then they get little help in adjusting to their new role. Some end up doing the job poorly – they become bad managers. Some start working real hard to get better. They throw everything they can at the job – their energy, emotions, logic, problem solving skills, technical skills, social skills – everything including the kitchen sink. And the cost of becoming a good manager gets really high. Dave knows the drill because he’s done it himself and helps out managers on the same exhausting path he was on. Being a good/great manager just doesn’t have to be that hard! With the right tool kit you can dramatically improve your skills as a manager without paying such a high personal price.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This workshop will teach participants to

  • Move direct reports from compliance to commitment
  • Establish measureable success criteria
  • Coach direct reports to enhance knowledge and skills
  • Motivate direct reports with diverse styles
  • Eliminate micro management and absent management
  • Empower direct reports
  • Build trusting relationships with direct reports
  • Communicate clearly with direct reports
  • Provide clear enabling feedback to direct reports
  • Source feedback from multiple sources to eliminate blind spots

 

COURSE OUTLINE

Session Objectives and Climate Setting

  • Establish participant objectives/challenges
  • Identify how to integrate tools into workplace
  • Build participant relationships

 

Relationship vs Goal Balance

  • Skills for quickly building trusting relationships
  • Prioritize goal and task behaviors
  • Identify and activate individual strengths

 

Motivate Different Types of People

  • Activate competitive strengths
  • Activate collaborative strengths
  • Activate curious strengths

 

Performance Management Coaching

  • Establish task and competency goals
  • Close gaps in skills, time, attitude, resources and knowledge
  • Create and implement action plans

 

Communication

  • Use active listening
  • Lead through questioning
  • Use dialogue and debate to drive consensus

 

Feedback

  • Use positive reinforcement
  • Transform criticism into constructive action
  • Communicate with highly sensitive people

 

Delegation

  • Stop micro managing
  • Stop doing the work yourself
  • Start preparing people for empowerment

 

Next Steps

  • Meet with your leader and gain commitment
  • Further reading and resources
  • Stop Start and Continue action plan

 

AUDIENCE & GROUP SIZE

Designed for all employees who desire results and who want to make a difference in their workplace, Managers Essential Tool Kit is a two-day workshop. We recommend a group size of 6 – 20 participants. This instructor-led, in-person/remote workshop will ensure participants receive hands-on training with real-life applications.

 

WORKSHOP MATERIALS

Each participant is provided a workbook with reference materials. Each participant also creates additional materials, personalized to his or her own workplace situation. The combination of these two elements creates a manual that is used throughout the year.

$1,249.00

All prices are per person and exclude HST (added at Checkout)