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Essentials of Management: For New Managers

Get the key skills you need to manage and motivate, to delegate and to become a great all-round manager.

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The Key Issues

You are a great team player and you do a great job in your role. But now you are being promoted to management and for the first time you need to manage a team. That is not always easy. How do you motivate people, give them feedback, and make sure the strategy gets done?

Becoming a great manager

Delegation strategies

Coaching
skills

Key Competences​

Communication skills

Motivating your team

Performance management

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager with up to 3 years experience and you have a team of 3 or more people. You need to improve your management skills and become a great all-round manager.
  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc.
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

This programme is practical, hands-on and business focused. You learn by using role plays, exercises and tips.

Learn how to use clear goal setting and professional feedback to manage your team on a daily basis.

Use different management styles with your team to make sure the strategy gets implemented.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand your management roles and responsibilities
  • Improve communication with your team & set expectations for you and your direct reports
  • Adapt your management style to meet the needs of individual team members
  • Communicate organizational goals that get results
  • Apply delegation strategies to increase productivity and motivation
  • Use effective coaching techniques to maximize your team’s performance
  • Recognize different types of work conversations
  • Define the goals of performance management
  • Understanding and using the conversational triangle in your management role
  • Practice delegation discussion in role plays
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Essentials of Management: Management Skills for New Managers focuses on the key skills you need in your new role. You learn how to manage performance, coach your team and delegate.

Six Programme Modules

1 | Defining Your Role as a Manager

  • Discovering the qualities and abilities required for effective management
  • Identifying the roles and responsibilities managers perform
  • Exploring the contextual issues and challenges that new managers face today

2 | Continuous Performance Management

  • Defining the goal of performance management
  • Identifying the process and challenges
  • Practicing the skills of performance management

3 | Communication: Conducting Effective Work Conversations

  • Describe the importance of communication to effective management.
  • Recognizing the qualities of effective communication.
  • Understanding the process of communication and the barriers that can derail it.
  • Recognizing different types of work conversations.
  • Identifying the two key conversation skills.
  • Understanding and utilizing the conversational triangle

4 | Coaching for Performance

  • Identifying the importance of and requirements for coaching
  • Learning the micro-skills of effective coaching
  • Confronting problem behaviours in a tactful manner
  • Using the AMA Guide to manage a coaching discussion
  • Differentiating between coaching and disciplining

5 | Building a Motivational Climate

  • Recognizing the manager’s role in employee motivation
  • Exploring important elements of the motivational process
  • Utilizing managerial practices for building a motivational climate

6 | Delegating for Growth and Development

  • Describing the types of delegation that managers can engage in
  • Identify the importance of, and the barriers to, effective delegation
  • Assessing your current delegation practices and their challenges
  • Recognizing what can and can’t be delegated
  • Identifying the phases of effective delegation
  • Practicing delegation discussion
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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