Successfully Managing People Seminar # 2295

Managing people effectively means you’ll resolve conflicts less painfully, delegate critical tasks more efficiently, energize your employees and transform resistance into support!

Adjusting your management and personal styles to complement the culture of your work group and your company as a whole can be the catalyst that motivates your teams to heightened productivity.

Utilizing extensive practice in the principles of emotional intelligence, Successfully Managing People underscores the importance of self-awareness in developing sensitivity to and better communication with others. You’ll leave this three-day seminar well versed in the most effective methods for managing people, including dealing with difficult people…winning cooperation and trust…and ensuring that your people’s values and your organization’s goals are in sync.

How You Will Benefit

• Motivate and direct  the employees you rely on—even when they don’t share your values
• Adjust your management and personal style to the needs of different situations
• Get more done by using the appropriate delegation techniques for any given situation
• Resolve conflict more effectively in a wide variety of situations
• Turn difficult people and poor performers into team players
• Win the cooperation and trust from everyone in your organization
• Increase your confidence, leadership skills and personal and professional satisfaction in your job by managing people successfully

What You Will Cover

The Experience of Being a Manager

• How to get people to want to do what they’re supposed to do
• Specific challenges you face when motivating others

Values

• Values and their impact on work life
• How values can have productive and nonproductive results
• Identify value conflicts in yourself and in others

Personal Styles

• Determine your own personal style profile
• Gain insight into the strengths and limitations of your profile
• Use behavioral clues to determine others’ personal styles
• How to work more effectively with other personal profiles

Motivation

• Employee motivation factors and their impact on behaviors and work settings
• How to tailor your motivational efforts to individual employees and different situations

Listening, Body Language, Giving Feedback and Dealing with Difficult People

• Use active listening to gain information and understand employees’ perspectives
• Effectively apply positive and corrective feedback
• Use appropriate values alignment when dealing with difficult employees

Conflict

• The dimensions of conflict resolution
• Identify your own preferred conflict-resolution styles for better conflict management
• Use different conflict resolution styles in different situations

Delegation

• Different delegation styles: how and when to use them
• Determine the appropriate delegation style for employees and situations

Understanding Organizational Culture and Subculture

• The impact of organizational culture and subculture and “cultural blinders”
• Explore the assumptions that impact your team’s thinking and actions
• Identify and build on the strengths of your team’s culture

Emotional Intelligence

• The components of emotional intelligence
• Gain an honest and accurate assessment of yourself
• Develop an improvement strategy

Ethical Leadership

• Identify your group’s values
• Your vision for ethical leadership

Action Planning

• Develop a specific plan for applying what you’ve learned back on the job
• Identify people who can support your action plans
  
  

Who Should Attend

Managers and individuals with management responsibilities whose success depends on managing people successfully through clear communication, a cooperative attitude and commitment to shared goals.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Accreditation and Continuing Education Units
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs
Nonmembers $2,095 / AMA Members $1,895 / GSA $1,623

Schedule

We have 64 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between July 30, 2008 and April 22, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form