Workshops & Masterclasses
Workshops and masterclasses can be a highly effective method of development and can cover a wide range of topics.
Workshops and masterclasses are often delivered as standard open courses or if you wish many providers will create a tailored/customised workshop to your specific requirements. This allows for a highly flexible method of developing the managers and leaders in your organisation.
You can look at the workshops and masterclasses available for managers by taking a look through our training database or if you require a customised workshop you can take a look at our professional development information. If you need any assistance obtaining the right kind of workshop or masterclass for your organisation you can contact us.
Below you can find indicative examples of the types of courses that are available to your business.
Creating the Vision and Strategy
Indicative programme contents:
- What is vision?
- Why have a vision?
- Difference between vision and mission statement
- Creating a vision for your organisation
- Communicationg the vision
- Implementing change
- Creating buy-in from everyone
- Overcoming barriers
- Monitoring and keeping on track Back to Top of Page
Developing Strategic Planning
Indicative programme contents:
- What is a plan?
- Why and when to plan?
- Planning styles
- The corporate or strategic plan
- Business planning
- The planning process
- How to prepare a plan
- Who to involve in planning
- Measuring performance
- Planning for people
- Planning competitive advantage
- Using plans Back to Top of Page
Managing People Creating the Right Environment
Indicative programme contents:
- Motivating individuals and teams
- Recruitment and selection
- Coaching and mentoring
- Developing future talent
- The manager as facilitator
- Managing yourself
- Investing in people
- Communications and consultation
- Communicating with people
- When and how to delegate Back to Top of Page
Managing Marketing
Indicative programme contents:
- Developing products and market testing
- Brand and image
- The quality versus price ratio
- Involving everyone in the process
- Marketing plans
- Your product cycle
- Getting feedback to improver performance
- Checking your product flow
- The key messages of production
- Setting goals and continuous improvement
- Speeding up entry and exit strategies Back to Top of Page
Managing Stakeholders
Indicative programme contents:
Customers
- Measuring customer satisfaction
- Developing a customer culture
- Searching for opportunites through our customers
- Increasing customer loyalty and long term relationships
Suppliers
- The right supplier base
- Selection and evaluation
- Supply chain management
Partnerships and Strategic Alliances
- Why create alliances or have partners?
- Structuring the partnerships
- Selecting the partner
- Creating the relationship Back to Top of Page
Managing Finance
Indicative programme contents:
- Finance as a planning tool
- The finance process
- Profit and low accounts
- Cash flow
- Budget forecasting
- Monitoring the important things
- Risk management Back to Top of Page
Recruitment
Indicative programme contents:
- What are the requirements for the organisation, the job and the jobholder?
- Equal opportunities and discrimination
- Attracting candidates
- The selection process
- Making the offer and contracts of employment
- Induction - starting as you mean to go on
- Evaluating the recruitment process
- Exit interviews Back to Top of Page
Performance Management
Indicative programme contents:
- What is performance management?
- Objective setting
- Evaluating and monitoring
- Appraisals
- Procedures
- Training and development
- Recognition and reward Back to Top of Page
Teams
Indicative programme contents:
- Team structures
- What is a high performance team?
- Evaluating and the value of high performance and cross functional teams
- Getting the best from teams
- The team process
- Measuring team performance
- Handling team conflict
- Setting up teams in organisations Back to Top of Page
Communication
Indicative programme contents:
- Why and what should we communicate
- Key communication routes
- Using communication as a cultural tool
- One-to-one and group communication
- Improving communication Back to Top of Page
Workshops for Senior Managers (all 1 day workshops)
- Strategy
- Managing Team Performance for Growth and Profitability
- Corporate Finance
- Developing Managing Skills
- Managing Change
- Managing Finance and Key Performance Indicators
- Managing Human Resources
- Managing Operations
- Managing Projects
- Marketing Back to Top of Page
Workshops for Middle Managers (all 1 day workshops)
- Develop teams to Enhance Performance
- Managing Performance
- Developing Management Skills
- Enhancing Personal Performance
- Maintaining & Improving Health, Safety and Quality
- Managing Information and Change
- Managing Operations and Marketing
- Managing Resources
- Recruitment and Selection Back to Top of Page
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