The Profession of Management: The Core Management Disciplines

Description:
This four-day management workshop focuses on a systematic approach to the core disciplines of management: Leading, Planning, Organizing, and Controlling. Using an integrated framework of both hard and soft management skills, participants learn the fundamental concepts and how to apply the necessary tools of successful management.

Participants become more effective managers by:

• Understanding a logical, interactive management system for leading, planning, organizing, and controlling for optimal results.
• Establishing strategic and tactical plans that lead to better unit performance.
• Strengthening leadership skills for improved performance execution.
• Establishing unit standards that measure performance outcomes.
• Implementing sound organizational structure concepts that assure successful plan achievement.

As a result of this workshop, participants will have:

• A written mission that accurately reflects their area of responsibility.
• Measures that will tell whether or not they are achieving their mission.
• Activities defined that give the greatest return for their efforts.
• A plan for aligning key stakeholders around the organization’s mission.
• An action plan to implement important change.
• A resolution for one critical issue they are currently facing.

Program Outline:

I.  The Management System

• Management Workshop Objectives
• A Management System
• Work and Results
• Five-Way Management
• The Management System Wheel
• Management Work Classification

II.  Management Leadership

• General Principles of Management Leadership
• Stages of a Manager’s Development
• Evolution of a Management Leader
• Management vs. Technical Work
• Summary: The Role of the Management Leader

III.  Decision-Making & Problem-Solving

• Types of Decisions
• Summary of Decision-Making & Problem-Solving

IV.  Planning

• Principles of Planning
• Forecasting
• Accountability Charters
• Mission
• Mission Standards
• Key Strategies
• Key Work
• Key Work Standards
• The Technique for Action Planning
• Specific Objective
• Specific Standards
• Tasking
• Scheduling
• Policies
• Procedures and Processes
• Summary Planning

VI.  Organizing

• Organization Function
• Grouping Work
• Assigning Work
• Integrating Work
• Summary Organizing

VII.  Leading

• Activities of Leading
• Motivation
• Communication
• The Technique for Decision-Making (Review)
• Selecting People
• Developing People
• Performance Appraisal
• Summary Leading

VIII.  Controlling

• Activities of Controlling
• Performance Standards
• Measuring Performance
• Evaluating Performance
• Correcting Performance
• Summary Controlling

Target Audience:
This workshop is designed for midlevel managers with responsibility for implementing and optimizing new management practices that deal with management systems, management planning, management organization and management performance standards.

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