This management skills course is for anyone new to a management role or anyone needing to develop their current management skills. This course, whilst practical and enjoyable, is designed to give participants the skills and confidence to manage staff professionally. By the end of our course delegates will: understand the role and skills of the manager, leadership, motivation and goals, teams and delegation, time management, development of staff and coaching skills and cultural diversity, grievances, discipline and influencing.
The management skills course tutor will help delegates attending our management skills course understand their own strengths and weaknesses as managers. As a result of attending this course delegates will be capable of maximising the productivity and well being of their staff members. In fact, once people learn the correct management skills, they will automatically use them again and again as they work so well.
All our trainers are professionally qualified with years of experience delivering tailored training for some of Ireland’s most respected organisations such as SME’S, large multinationals, Government Departments, Charities, County Councils and so on. Protrain courses are tailored to reflect the real world your staff work in so your input is critical to make certain we customise the course to your needs and make this management skills course a true success.
“Turfgrass Consultancy had two days of Management Skills training with Protrain and we were extremely satisfied with the delivery, presentation, content and personalization of the training. We felt Protrain really listened to what we needed to improve on as a business and used excellent examples within the delivery of the program to illustrate the each point. Many Thanks for an insightful and enjoyable two days”.
John Clarkin, Managing Director
Turfgrass Consultancy
 Course Objectives
At the end of this  course, participants will understand the essential elements required to produce results now, by building on:
- Character, competence and trust in the midst of turbulence
- Vision, communication and innovation in the face of change
- Listening, leadership and decision making whatever the circumstances
Management Skills Course Content
- General communication skills to build good working relationships
- Directive & non-directive communication
- Hearing, listening, attending, questioning & challenging techniques
- Non verbal communication
- Perception, bias, developing trust, change management  & decision making
- Personality development and respecting differences
- Motivation
- Positive assertiveness
- Objective setting & prioritising
- Competency based interviewing
- Performance & training needs analysis
- Managing conflict & argument in difficult situations
- Team development & team working
- Belbin self inventory profiling
- Leadership
- Emotional intelligence & transactional analysis
- Time management
- Delegation skills
- Business writing & presentation skills
- Managing good meetings
- Stress management
Course Duration
2 days per training group onsite
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