​MANAGE BETTER
  The unwritten rules that everyone expects you to know

In these uncertain times, organizations are dealing with massive change. This is affecting the whole organization and every individual within it. Inexperienced managers are not only trying to develop their skills as managers, figure out their role and grow into their new responsibilities, they are now also trying to deal with the stress of rapid change at a personal level and help others to do the same. All of this while trying to remain energized, motivated and productive, and help other to do the same. 

Every time someone leaves your organization because of an incompetent boss, it costs you 30% to 150% of their salary to replace them. And on top of that, there are costs in time, overall productivity and for unnecessary mistakes. How much are you spending each year because your inexperienced managers don’t have the skills, tools and support they need?

There are always many benefits to cultivating and developing managers within your organization. But many new mangers struggle in their role, costing the organization in time, overall productivity and unnecessary mistakes. Your organization will benefit from helping all inexperienced managers to accelerate their journey to becoming effective. Right now accelerated development and focus on the right things will be critical in having a successful journey through the next few months and beyond. 

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"Manage Better " offers a number of tools and development opportunities to help your managers  

• Increase their effectiveness working in a changing, and virtual, environment
• Develop a new level of skill in their ability to inspire, manage and support a team in a virtual environment
• Enhance their ability to communicate effectively remotely and in person
• Increase their personal resilience, and develop some tools to help others to do the same

 
They will also: 

• Become, not just better managers, but better employees
• Learn to think strategically, approach things logically, and manage more effectively through a combination of instruction and practical application
• Identify the three key elements for prioritizing work
• Learn the secret to giving effective feedback
• Develop awareness of their impact on others
• Discover two tricks to becoming a better influencer

​When your new manager attends “Manage Better”, they will benefit from my many years of coaching and working with other new managers. They will gain access to tools and a framework to help them improve their effectiveness and become more confident. You can provide the opportunity for your inexperienced manager to take advantage of these tools through an on-line course that requires their time on-line for less than 2 hours/week. This course is an investment in people and in the organization – an investment in effective management that will pay back many times over.

What we will cover:

Module 1: Develop a “manager mindset”; which includes developing self-awareness, and fully understanding the role of manager

Module 2: Focus on self-management, building personal resilience, and responses to change, managing time and energy and boundary setting

Module 3: Communication: what works, what doesn't, personal strengths and triggers, how to leverage the former and mitigate the latter

Module 4: Develop and get the most from the team in both a face-to-face and virtual environments well as ways to manage and support others and help them in times of rapid change

Module 5: Managing expectations - yours and others

Module 6: Building influence, building key relationships, and thinking strategically

Module 7: Pulling it all together - juggling all the balls and staying sane; including learning to prioritize, and when and how to say “no”. 

During the course participants will:

• Learn to think strategically, approach things logically, and manage more effectively through a combination of instruction and practical application
• Create a compendium of tools, resources and reflections to use in the future
• Be involved with a learning partner who will help anchor accountability and enhance learning, sharing learnings and insights, ask questions and exchange ideas

• In addition, there is an opportunity to engage 1-on-1 in coaching with me to customize the participant's  experience, and allow them to apply the learning directly to the areas where it will benefit them the most

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Contact me at sheila.norris@sympatico.ca for more information and to set up a course for your new managers
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