Module 1 - What is Management and its Relationship with People
On day one the course will cover leadership styles and their impact on people’s feelings, and real corporate cases on these, including case study and role plays
Key Topics
- People Management
- Leadership/management styles – 3 different decision-making styles
- Impact of the above to dealing with people and issues: case exercise & discussion
- How to Build passion and commitment toward a common goal
- Decision making and results!
Module 2 - How to Tie the Entrepreneurial Spirit to Management and Leadership
On day two the course will cover practical tools to identify opportunities and reduce risk exposure in a globalised arena
Key Topics
- Business acumen and Entrepreneurial spirit
- Definition of an entrepreneur
- Famous corporate cases: successes and flops
- Identification of opportunities
- Global thinking: linking Risk management with PESTEL factors (Political-Economical-Social-Technological-Environmental-Legal). Each with explanation and case sharing
Module 3 - What are System and Creative Thinking?
On day three the course will cover how to manage complexity and chaos via system thinking, and practical tools to be creative
Key Topics
- System Thinking
- Definition: what is it?
- How to use system thinking to handle problems and challenges
- Look at the complexity of key issues, problems and opportunities to affect actions (e.g., leverage opportunities and resolve issues).
- Think out of the box
- Case discussion: Interview logic and analytical thinking
- Differences between critical, analytical & creative thinking
- Example of “out of box” case
- Creative Techniques (to share a few techniques with case for each technique)
Module 4 - How to Influence People and Manage Change
On day four the course will cover specific skills in power and influence, and role plays, in addition to techniques on managing change.
Key Topics
- Influencing Skills
- A look at Organizational politics: power and influence (definition and examples)
- Major influencing techniques (5 techniques) and how to apply
- Pros and cons of each
- Managing Change
- Why people resist change and what do with it?
- How to develop a long-range course of action or set of goals to align with the organization’s vision
- Linking to Talent Management: ensuring that people with the right skills and motivations to meet business needs
Module 5 - Managing Team, Stakeholders and Behavioral Modification
On day five the course will cover tools and techniques related to team selection and understanding, and managing stakeholders and behaviors.
Key Topics
- Building Relationship and Stakeholder management
- Team working
- Stakeholder Analysis and management to deal with issues
- Ability To Motivate
- What is motivation? What makes people move or tick?
- A look at Motivation “on the street”: spare the theories like Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Skinner, etc…
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