Senior Management Skills and Performance Management

Course Outline

Overview

Take your managerial skills to a higher level. Learn the art of upwardly influencing and making recommendations to impact the organization. You will learn advanced management processes to get the best out of your team. Through role plays, discussions and presentations, you will practise a range of management techniques.

The ability to consistently understand and interpret performance metrics into insight is fundamental to fast-moving modern business. Moreover, managing performance diagnostics by undertaking the appropriate range of interventions are critical. By attending this course, you will learn the complete performance management process and tailor it to your organization’s needs.

The course includes site visits to organizations relevant to the course so delegates can develop an understanding of how their contemporaries function in the real-world.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Agenda

Emotional Intelligence

• Evolution Theory and Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Guidance Scale
• Logic vs Emotional Drivers
• The Science Behind Behaviour

Inspiring and Motivating Others

• Evolution Theory and Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Guidance Scale
• Logic vs Emotional Drivers
• The Science Behind Behaviour

Presentation and Facilitation Skills

• Structuring Content and Structure
• Presenting Skills Techniques
• Dealing with Nerves
• Audience Handling Approaches and Storytelling

Site Visit

• Industrial visit to a relevant organization.
• An insight into the internal working of companies.
• An opportunity to learn through interaction with practising professionals.

Goal Setting and Personal Effectiveness

• SMART Objectives and Applied SWOT Model
• Self Assessment Audit
• Setting Agreeable Goals
• Achieving Measurable Targets

Conducting a Performance Appraisal

• SMART Objectives and Applied SWOT Model
• Self Assessment Audit
• Setting Agreeable Goals
• Achieving Measurable Targets

Coaching and Mentoring

• The History of Mentoring
• Coaching Skills
• The Coaching Spectrum
• Refining Talent Within the Organization

Site Visit

• Industrial visit to a relevant organization.
• An insight into the internal working of companies.
• An opportunity to learn through interaction with practising professionals.

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning

Target Audience

This course is suitable for:

• High Performance Employees moving into Management.
• Senior and Mid-level Managers.
• Line Managers
• Operations Managers
• Heads of Departments
• Business Analysts

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Implement motivational strategies to improve attitudes to work and performance.
• Place the importance of rational and emotive aspects in work performances and duties.
• Perfect the art of presentation and articulate meeting handling.
• Master the procedural aspect of goals-setting for employees for personal development and organizational goals.
• Design and lead the process for coaching and mentoring within the organization.
• Deliver KPI-led programmes and incentivise stakeholders to reach and surpass organizational goals.
• Develop a practical perspective into contemporary work practices in your field.
• Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.