The Experienced
Manager:
Evaluating Your Management Career
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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