Managerial Effectiveness Seminar

Executive, senior and middle managers as part of a development programme for the management team. This is a public seminar and attracts participants from a range of industries.

At the end of the five day intervention, participants should be able to:

• Better understand the role of the manager

• Be able to differentiate between task orientation and relationship orientation

• Distinguish between effective and less effective managerial styles

• Define and agree Effectiveness Areas – the outputs of the job

• Quantify and diagnose team and individual performance over time

• Compile individual and team performance scorecards

• Re-define job effectiveness descriptions for every position

• Compile and agree realistic personal change strategies to improve individual and team performances.

Note:

The seminar can also be condensed in to a three or four day intervention on an in-house basis for the staff of a single organisation (i.e. non-public)

The contents of such a workshop, whilst still focussing on the key elements of effective managerial styles and defining measureable positional outputs, can be tailored to specific client requirements (e.g. how to handle poor performers and/or conflict within a team).

This is Reddin’s well-known and attended flagship intervention that has operated for over 40 years.

During the seminar, delegates will spend 80% of their time working in teams of up to seven members from a variety of background in an intense interactive learning process. Prior to the seminar, participants receive a pack of materials to study and it is essential that the pre-work be completed beforehand. Such preparation for the MES takes between 20 to 30 hours;

The initial part of the seminar deals with team – based exercises and selected case studies to consolidate the 3 – D Managerial Effectiveness concepts, introducing the key elements of team building.

The latter half of the seminar concentrates on developing each individual participant’s application of the 3 – D Managerial Effectiveness concepts to their work situation. Participants clarify their own major job outputs (with their team members acting as consultants) and give / receive feedback on how individual management styles in the team have impacted on the team performance.

Finally, participants generate action logs for introducing personal change in the work environment.

Duration

5 days

The seminar commences at 17.30 on a Sunday evening and ends at 12 noon on Friday. Due to the intense nature of the seminar and late hours involved, participants are generally required to reside at the seminar venue for the duration of the seminar.

The seminar can be condensed to a 3 or 4 day non-residential in-house corporate workshop (i.e. for participants from a single organisation) as required.

• Improved job clarity by describing all jobs in “effectiveness” terms.

• Improved understanding of the four managerial styles that positively impact staff performance and when to apply them

• A focus thereafter on achieving agreed and measurable outputs for every position.

• An increase in individual and team levels of motivation, communication and effectiveness

• Objective measurements of team effectiveness and resultant improvement in team attitude, synergy and performance