The Experienced Manager: Evaluating Your Management Career

On-site Training Only
 Length: 3 days 
 Number of Participants: Up to 25
 Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided


Course Description

This course is for managers with at least five years of management experience. This course provides experienced managers with an opportunity to take an introspective look at who they are, to explore where they are going in their life and career, and to learn how to find deeper meaning and satisfaction in their lives. This workshop will help managers assess their current career paths, leadership style, communication patterns in a diverse workplace, and mentoring and motivating skills with the latest application of current management practices supported by theory and research. Managers will practice new knowledge and skills in an experiential and fun learning environment.

Skills and Competencies

At the conclusion of the Workshop, the participant will be able to:

·         Take a constructive look at your career and assess your goals and direction

·         Construct a life plan with personal and professional objectives to guide your  management career

·         Recognize the differences in communication in a divers workforce and be able to communicate more effectively using new communication skills

·         Use the approach of facilitative leadership to work with departmental and cross­ functional groups

·         Employ mentoring as an approach to effective employee professional development  and learn how to avoid the mentor trap

·         Use job sculpting as a career development tool to define and create your ideal job

·         Review the best practices of the best companies in motivating employees and learn how to use these techniques in your workplace

·         Create a plan to better motivate your direct reports by understanding the needs and wants of your direct reports 

Day 1

The Mid-Career Balance Sheet

 1. Life Reflection Assessment

2. Introductions

3. Large group discussion

4. Participant Course Goals

5. Large Group Debrief

6. Course Overview and Time Sequence  

 7. Learning Journal Entry - individual activity

8. Career Profile Inventory

9. Small Group Activity

10. Large group discussion

11. Visioning Process for the Future

12. Large group discussion

13.The Personal Map of the Future

14. Large Group Debrief

15. Individual Assessment - Management Development

16. Debrief the Instrument  

17. Updating the Personal Map of the Future

18. Learning Journal Entry - individual activity

19. Summary of Day #1 Learning by creating a Course Learning Map

 

Day 2 

Performance Management – Facilitative Leadership

 1 . Introduction

2. Characteristics of Effective Leaders

3. Individual Assessment - Leading Edge Portrait Instrument

4. Debrief the LEP Instrument

5. Updating your Personal Map of the Future

6. Brainwriting on Facilitative Leadership  

            7. Lecturette on Components of Facilitation

            8. The Symbolic Approach

            9. Small Group Debrief

           10. Summary of Symbolic Approach - The Benefits

           11. Managing Risk - What am I afraid of?

           12. Large Group Debrief

           13. Learning Journal Entry - individual activity 

Communications in a Diverse Workplace

 1. Lecturette The Business Case for Diversity

2. Lecturette

3. Guided Discussion: Conversational Rituals

4. Identifying Conversational Rituals

5. Skill Practice 

Generations at Work 

1. Small group activity: Marketing Campaign

2.  Large group activity

3. Video: Managing Generation X

4. Summary of Day #2 Learning by creating a Course Mind Map

 

Day 3

Mentoring: Moving Beyond the Coaching Role  

            1. Definitions of key words activity 

            2. Small group activity 

            3. Assessment of Mentoring Skills

4. The Mentoring Trap


Job Sculpting and Growth Plans: A New Perspective on Delegation

  1. Lecturette: Job Sculpting and Growth Plans: A New 
     Perspective on Delegation

2. Individual Activity: Identify Life Interests

3. Large group discussion to debrief

4. Individual Activity: Job Sculpting Plan

5. Lecturette, on Growth Plans

6. Individual and Partner Activity: Growth Plan


Motivating at the Next Level  

1. Individual Activity: What motivates me?

2. Large group guided discussion to debrief

3. Lecturette on Evolutionary Psychology

4. Case study

5. Large group guided discussion debrief


Action Plan: Putting it All Together  

1. Individual Activity: Create a Personal Action Plan

2. Dyads Activity: Review Action Plan

3. Group Activity: Presentation of Certificates

4. Individual Activity: Course Evaluations

 

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