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Managing People & Time

Get the key skills in people management. Discover the most effective time management techniques to achieve your goals.

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The Key Issues

Managing people and projects today is more challenging than ever. Motivating diverse teams, resolving conflicts, and addressing delegation barriers require new approaches. At the same time, managers must balance multiple priorities, shift focus from managing time to managing themselves, and set clear expectations to reduce stress and frustration.

Personal
efficiency

Multitasking strategies

Time
management

Key Competences​

Motivation, delegation and giving feedback

People management skills

Emotional intelligence

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager with 3+ years experience. You need to get the key skills in people and time management to achieve your goals.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Pinpoint the things that make you waste too much of your time and learn how to avoid them.

Build your own effective disruptive innovation action plan.

Learn how to set clear expectations with colleagues, customers and your boss and avoid frustration.

Into the strengths and limitations of your profile.

Identify and build on the strengths of your team's culture.

Develop a specific personal plan for applying what you learn.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Motivate every member of your team—even if they are very different
  • Resolve conflict more effectively in a wide variety of situations
  • Get more done by using the best delegation techniques for each situation
  • Turn difficult people and poor performers into team players
  • Win the cooperation and trust from people in your organization
  • Increase your confidence, management skills, and personal and professional satisfaction in your job by managing people successfully
  • Set and accomplish realistic and achievable goals for your work
  • Create priorities and establish realistic boundaries
  • Recognize and deal with your time-wasting actions and tasks
  • Improve your concentration and efficiency overall
  • Use technology to help manage your time and results
  • Create and recharge your positive energy – that is very important for everyone

Programme Details

Managing People & Time is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays.

Sixteen Programme Modules

  • How to get people to want to do what they’re supposed to do
  • Specific challenges you face when motivating others
  • Values and their impact on work life
  • How values can have productive and nonproductive results
  • Identify value conflicts in yourself and in others
  • Determine your own personal style profile
  • Gain insight into the strengths and limitations of your profile
  • Use behavioural clues to determine others’ personal styles
  • How to work more effectively with other personal profiles
  • Employee motivation factors and their impact on behaviours and work settings
  • How to tailor your motivational efforts to individual employees and different situations
  • Use active listening to gain information and understand employees’ perspectives
  •  Effectively apply positive and corrective feedback
  • Use appropriate values alignment when dealing with difficult employees
  • The dimensions of conflict resolution
  • Identify your own preferred conflict-resolution styles for better conflict management
  • Use different conflict resolution styles in different situations
  • Different delegation styles: How and when to use them
  • Determine the appropriate delegation style for employees and situations
  • The impact of organizational culture and subculture and “cultural blinders”
  • Explore the assumptions that impact your team’s thinking and actions
  • Identify and build on the strengths of your team’s culture
  • The components of emotional intelligence
  • Gain an honest and accurate assessment of yourself
  • Develop an improvement strategy
  • Identify your group’s values
  • Your vision for ethical leadership
  • Develop a specific plan for applying what you’ve learned back on the job
  • Identify people who can support your action plans
  • Shift Focus from Managing Time to Managing Self
  • Identify Typical Time Wasters
  • Identify Personal Strengths and Development Opportunities to Control Time
  • Define Goals Based on Your Role
  • Establish Important and Valid Priorities
  • Create a Realistic and Productive Schedule
  • Use a Robust Planning Process to Analyse and Review Plans
  • Attend Meetings with Purpose and Add Value
  • Set Clear Expectations with Colleagues, Customers, and Your Boss
  • Manage Interruptions from Others
  •  Build both Productivity and Efficiency
  • Re-evaluate Multitasking Strategies
  • Overcome Procrastination
  • Manage Technological Distractions
  • Prioritize and Choose Activities to Balance Life and Work
  • Create Your Own “No” Script
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Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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