​Whether you're a fresh-faced graduate, aspiring manager, or new manager, it's essential your core business skills are firmly in place if you want to establish yourself as a successful manager.

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Spread over 6 half-day sessions, you can ensure that you have the foundational business firmly in-place before tackling the challenges in management.

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Already have the foundations in place, take a look at "The Successful Manager" and "Managing for Great Performance"

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Session 1: Self Understanding
Focus: self-awareness in the workplace

• Personality Types (Colours Personality Profile completed in preparation)

• Self-awareness

• Growth - "Comfort Zone" vs "Learning Zone"

• Resilience

Session 2: Communication
Focus: Clarity and candour and effective meetings

• Who we communicate with

  • Our team

  • Our peers

  • Our managers

  • Stakeholders

• Communication methods - strengths and weaknesses​

• The hidden messages of communication

• How to receive feedback effectively

• Upwards communication

Session 3: Creativity & Decision Making
Focus: Developing creative thinking and effective decision making

• The big blocker - fear of failure

• Embracing mistakes and learning from them

• Generating ideas

  • Brainstorming that works​

  • Other tips

• Making good decisions

  • Decision Making Styles

  • ​Type 1 vs Type 2 decisions

  • The importance of reversibility

  • Confidence to decide

  • Numbers and decisions

Session 4: Negotiation
Focus: learn negotiating skills that will help you and the business get what you want

• Communication re-cap 

• What do we negotiate?

• Key skills

  • Knowing your bounds and being the "reluctant" party

  • ​Anchoring

  • Questioning and funnelling

  • The power of silence

  • The power of not being able to decide

  • Having one last nibble

• Win-Win vs Split-the-difference​

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Session 5: Personal Productivity
Focus: focus on maximising your effectiveness and avoiding procrastination

• Why personal productivity really matters

• Poor time management and your mental health

• Eisenhower matrix and why we mix up "important" and "urgent"

• Time management techniques

  • Lists

  • Time-blocking

• Tackling Procrastination 

  • What's the real cause?

  • Focusing on your future self

Session 6: Presentation Skills
Focus: Confront the fear and learn how to tell a story that engages your audience

• What scares us about presentations?

• Let's just chat - confidence in communication

• Telling the story - beginning, middle and the end

• Having a go - PechaKucha 20x20 Presentations (in teams)