Leadership Training: Getting Back to Management Training Basics

The Leadership Training Institute offers workshops that teach participants to confidently use proven methods of management leadership to lead people and help them plan, organize and control their work assignments. Workshop participants will also learn to use resources made available to them more effectively.

On-Site Workshops: can be tailored to the needs of client organization and delivered on-site at time and location of client choice.

Workshop Objectives:

At the 90-day post-workshop assessment, participants will have:

Demonstrated (on the job) an understanding that the intuitive style of leadership (self-centered, directive) will only work in special circumstances and will have made noticeable improvement in working themselves toward a management leadership style (participatory, empowering)

Spent more time "leading and managing" and less time "doing"

Used the action planning process to plan and implement at least one important initiative that has a positive impact on business results

Used the decision-making technique on the job to arrive at sound decisions that have or will have a positive impact on business results

Demonstrated greater ability to function in teamwork situations

Developed and successfully used a system of control by exception

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Getting Back to Management Training Basics

A few months ago I wrote about companies and users thinking they need a software system for everything under the sun. I continue to be amazed at how many managers and businesses think they cannot take on certain projects or even perform their jobs to the fullest, without software. What did companies do 30, 40, or 50 years ago? Did we just tell our management we can't do certain things because they are too complex or we don't have the proper tools? That's doubtful. Granted, the business challenges we face today may be more involved than they were years ago, but business is business and the fundamentals require the fundamentals in our employees.

Generally when I hear someone say "we can't do that right now, because we don't have a system", I think to myself, "how is a system going to ensure we are doing the right things in the right fashion?" It won't. What a system will do is help you track data, automate and streamline operations. Understandably, systems will generally provide a more in-depth and comprehensive review of data and the ability to review data under differing scenarios. The interpretation of that data, true management and ensuring things are done correctly is an output of the system. An input is good judgment, experience, education and our overall knowledge. I don't think anything can replace good old fashioned management by involvement, aka. management by walking around. This again does not require a system.

In tough economic times and with increasing pressures on all of us, it is easy to lose sight of the management principles that really work. In such an electronic era, we can quickly get wrapped up in typing versus talking, but most complicated business management matters I know have not been solved without conventional communication. We can be quick to look at our sinking budgets as an obstacle to our professional success, or we can use what has worked for years and use our mental power to solve problems, be creative, be involved and engaged with our teams and organizations.

In both good and bad economic times, nothing can be truer than the adage: "where there's a will there's a way."

Source: Ann Drinkwater link

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