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Manager's Toolkit

Manager's Toolkit - developing today's managers for the challenges of tomorrow

Technological advances, dynamic markets, new forms of competition, globalisation, economic downturns and climate change bring with them challenging pressures and opportunities for managers who have the tools to capitalise on them. Manager's Toolkit gives you the means to utilise these new opportunities and overcome the associated challenges.

Who is it for?

• Experienced managers in the private, public and voluntary sectors.
  
• Specialist managers who would like a broader management outlook.
  
• Busy managers who do not have the time or inclination to commit to an accredited programme.
  
• Individuals who want to learn and apply practical management and people skills.

The Manager - How you benefit?

• Managers have the time and space for critical reflection.
  
• Managers have the opportunity to use their experience and intuition in a risk free setting.
  
• Managers benefit by networking with fellow managers from a wide range of sectors.
  
• Managers leave with greater self belief and self confidence.
  
• Managers are taken out of their comfort zone for creative and innovative thinking
  
• Opens up your career horizons with a wider management outlook
  
• New skills in different behavioural and functional areas.

The Employer - How you benefit?

• Build skills and confidence for well rounded managers.
  
• Practical modules maximize the learning impact and help embed knowledge in the organization.
  
• Choose the modules that work best for the individual and the organization.
  
• Creating more effective managers with greater self belief and self confidence.
  

Why is Manager's Toolkit different?

• Flexible Programme - with Manager's Toolkit you can choose to attend any combination of the eleven modules. The choice is yours and determined by business need. If all eleven modules are completed you will receive a certificate.
  
• All courses encourage practical application of content and skills learned. After each course managers can consolidate, relate and evaluate learning back in the workplace.
• Leadership - Functional learning on its own is not enough to be a good manager - interpersonal skills can be the crucial difference between a successful organization and one that fails. We will use your experience and develop your capabilities to bridge the gap between your personal development and effectiveness as a leader. Manager's Toolkit helps you build people who will build your business.

Manager's Toolkit
Essential Information
Course: Manager's Toolkit - developing today's managers for the challenges of tomorrow
Fee: £635 per two day course (Fees include tuition, course material and catering)
Duration: 2 days
Dates: see Book a place

Manager's Toolkit courses

Self Management

Plan and manage your future.

Take control, gain awareness of your preferred work style, utilise management skills to work towards achieving goals, use your self-knowledge for profitable interactions.

Thinking Strategically

Thinking Strategically - Seeing the bigger picture.

Tools to navigate through today's challenging issues.

Managers frequently lack the time to see the bigger picture, resulting in a tendency for reaction rather than action. This course is all about the bigger picture and what your organization should do about it.

Leading and Team Building

INSPIRE. MOTIVATE. ENERGISE. LEAD.

Tools to lead YOUR team and YOUR organization to success.

Effective teams improve organizational performance through high levels of quality, consistency and output. Effective managers manage others with confidence, credibility and certainty. Learn how to motivate, encourage and get the most from your team.

Finance for Non Financial Managers

Steer through the jargon and handle financial matters with confidence.

Take the fear out of finance using accessible financial management tools. Gain clarity on complex/difficult data. Be certain, be confident, be empowered when dealing with finance. Master finance and have greater say in the strategic direction of your organization.

Managing Innovation

For those who see the opportunities of tomorrow today.

In today's fast-moving business environment, successful organizations anticipate and create opportunities, are flexible and act quickly and effectively for better business decisions. Improve your business performance through innovation management tools. Gain clarity on strategically important ideas that add value to your competitive position. Overcome the barriers/limitation to the innovation process.

Influencing and Negotiation

Discover and strengthen your personal influencing and negotiation styles.

Be cool when planning, delivering and closing negotiations. Learn the skills, confidence and self-awareness required to successfully influence others - internally and externally - to achieve lasting results.

Change Initiation

Embrace change. Embrace growth. Embrace success.

Survival of the fittest - change and grow to outperform the rest.

Today's challenging times show us that there is no certainty in the future, tomorrow could bring anything. Only the flexible and adaptable will be ready to react sufficiently quickly to the changing needs of customers and the market place.

Essential Marketing

Engage with your customers. Present and future.

Right product? Right place? Right time? Right price? Now market.

Successful organizations understand their customers, provide them with what they want and need and make them aware of the uniqueness of their offer. How do you understand what makes your products/services special? How do you match this to your best potential customers...and have them return, time and again?

Strategic Account Management

Improve your interaction with key customers for improved business success.

Achieve win/win solutions for customers and yourself using tools, tactics and techniques from strategic account management. Manage strategic accounts effectively by adding value at every step of the process through the long term.

Coaching and Mentoring

Identify potential - Encourage development - Realize success.

The best managers empower and inspire individuals for better performance.

Unleash your organization's hidden potential; support and encourage individuals to do what they do better. Inspire motivate and develop your most valuable asset - your people.

Project Management

Delivering results on time and to budget.

Develop simple techniques to manage complex projects.

Learn to plan, organize, and manage resources effectively for the successful completion of specific projects. Utilise resources optimally to overcome the limitations of time and money.

To reserve a place on any of the courses please click on individual course titles, or go to the booking form to book all eleven courses.

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