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(16) CRITICAL SKILLS FOR MANAGERS

 

                                                KUALA LUMPUR    l    19-20 January 2009

                                                KUALA LUMPUR    l    18-19 May 2009

                                                KUALA LUMPUR    l    14-15 September 2009

 

Equip Yourself with Essential Managerial Skills to
Make You an Effective Manager!

This course will provide you with all the tools you need to make a successful leader. In just 2-days, you will better understand yourself and everyone around you and be able to improve the ways in which you manage your staff, your peers, your boss and your work environment.

The result: you will gain the practical know-how you need-and the confidence you want-to plan, organize, coach, motivate, delegate and communicate in order to be an effective manager.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Newly-appointed Managers and Managers without structured management training, and existing Managers who wish to enhance their managerial skills.

KEY BENEFITS OF YOUR ATTENDING

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Clearly articulate your role and responsibilities as a Manager

2. Capitalize on your employees' natural motivators for success

3. Determine the best ways to communicate throughout your organization

4. Uncover your strengths as a coach

5. Identify the benefits and procedures of effective delegation

 

SPECIAL BENEFIT!

Each participant will receive a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory of himself or herself. The MBTI report belongs to the individual and will not be divulged to anyone without the expressed permission of its owner.  

COURSE SCHEDULE
Note: This schedule is a guide and may be modified depending on the group dynamics and the needs of the participants.

Day 1:
Morning Session (9.00- 10.30am)
Introductions

Workshop Expectations

Role of a Manager as a Leader
· Essential qualities of a good manager
· Leadership and management
· Management process
· Productivity & managerial performance

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Morning Session (10.45am-12.30pm)
Leading Through Communication Skills
· Managers and communication
· Purpose & process of communication
· Overcoming barriers in communication
· Transactional analysis

Leadership & Authority
· Leadership and power
· Uses of authority
· Contingency theories of leadership
· Decentralization of authority

Lunch Break (12.30-1.30pm)

Afternoon Session (1.30-3.00pm)
Motivation Techniques for Your Employees
· Factors determining motivation
· Purpose & characteristics of motivation
· Process theories of motivation
· Motivation & performance

Evaluating Employee Performance
· Purpose of performance appraisal
· Essentials of good appraisal system
· Performance evaluation process
· Performance appraisal methods
· Characteristics of performance evaluation system

Tea Break (15 minutes)

Afternoon Session (3.15-4.30pm)
Discipline Your Employees & Grievances
· Essentials of good disciplinary system
· Handling negative behaviour
· Grievance procedure
· Review
· Lessons Learnt

Day 2
Morning Session (9.00-10.30am)
Review Day One

Conflict Management
· Prevention is better than cure
· Three possible responses to conflict
· 11 deadly sins of communication
· Body language and how to use it
· When conflict can be positive
· Apathy? Sympathy? or Empathy?
· Preserving dignity and self respect

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Morning Session (10.45am-12.30pm)
Creative Problem Solving
· Problem Solving Overview
· 5 steps of problem solving
· What is a problem?
· Analysis of causes and effects of problems
· The problem solving Process
· Investigating a problem
· Create optimal solution

Lunch Break (12.30-1.30pm)

Afternoon Session (1.30-3.00pm)
Team Management - Part 1
· Managing your team
· Creating a climate for success
· Team selection and supervision
· Valuing team members
· Managing team projects
· Facing team challenges

Tea Break (15 minutes)

Afternoon Session (3.15-4.30pm)
Team Management - Part 2

Team Accountability

Review

My Personal Plan of Action

EXPERT COURSE LEADERS

 

The course will be conducted by ONE of the following Instructors:

 

            Mr MICHAEL P A TAN - Click here for profile

            Mr JOHN CHIA - Click here for profile

COMMENTS FROM SOME PAST ATTENDEES…

Speaker has a great capability of delivering his presentation in a simplified manner. I learnt a lot and enjoyed myself during the course.

Priscilla Alfred, PR Manager,
Maltecorp (M) Sdn Bhd

Important skills for a new manager in the company.

Khor Chun Eng, Assistant Regional Head,
Healthtronics (M) Sdn Bhd

Refresher course is most suited for long service managers.

Mohd Zamri Bin Md Zin, Finance & Procurement Manager,
Trisystems Engineering Sdn Bhd

A very good course. Very expert and experienced speaker provided the theory and practical areas.

Mashitah Sabdin, Manager Programme Devt Dept, 

International Islamic College

 

COURSE FEES

RM1,795 per person

 

TEAM DISCOUNT (For organisations sending 3 or more participants)

RM1,595 per person

 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

1 week before each scheduled date.

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