Management Skills for New Managers

Workshop Sessions on Leadership and Team Management

Module 1: Understanding Leadership

• Defining Leadership

• Characteristics of a Leader

• Principles of Leadership

• Situational Leadership – Telling, Selling, Participating, Delegating

Module 2: Getting Started

• Understanding your Why

• Creating a personal Mission Statement

• Setting your goals

• Creating a long term plan

• Influencing others: the art of persuasion

Module 3: Building your Leadership Skills

• Learning to communicate

• Taking responsibility for failure

• Lobbying for change

• Being an inspirational role model

• Seeing room for improvement in yourself and others

• Giving feedback

Module 4; Building a Team

• Enabling others to act

• Encouraging growth in others

• Building mutual respect

• Importance of Trust

• Being inclusive

• Sharing rewards

• Celebrating achievements

• Handling dissent and insubordination

Pedagogy

Each module will be of 4 hours duration and the pedagogy will includes classroom sessions, exercises, case studies and role play. The sessions will be conducted online on Zoom.

How do you survive office politics?

Bill Driscoll, senior district president, technology staffing services for Accountemps, said office politics are a natural part of workplace dynamics, and there are situations where it can't be avoided.

There are skills employees can develop to survive and move ahead. Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal influence and true sincerity can help professionals achieve their goals. Networking creates new, diverse partnerships that can add resources when teams face an issue. For instance, when faced with a particular problem, a colleague may have specialized knowledge or skills that can help the team move forward. Underlying it all, though, is true sincerity. Everyone in the workplace can spot insincerity. Leaders, however, who are truly invested and supportive of team members generate dynamic support for the organization