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Manager's Toolkit

Manager's Toolkit - developing today's managers for the challenges of tomorrow

Manager's Toolkit courses

Self Management
Lasting improvements in your personal and managerial styles.

Plan and manage your future.

Take control, gain awareness of your preferred work style, utilise management skills to work towards achieving goals, use your self-knowledge for profitable interactions.

Thinking Strategically

Thinking Strategically - Seeing the bigger picture.

Tools to navigate through today's challenging issues.

Managers frequently lack the time to see the bigger picture, resulting in a tendency for reaction rather than action. This course is all about the bigger picture and what your organization should do about it.

Leading and Team Building

INSPIRE. MOTIVATE. ENERGISE. LEAD.

Tools to lead YOUR team and YOUR organization to success.

Effective teams improve organizational performance through high levels of quality, consistency and output. Effective managers manage others with confidence, credibility and certainty. Learn how to motivate, encourage and get the most from your team.

Finance for Non Financial Managers
Novice with numbers? Intimidated by the specialists?

Steer through the jargon and handle financial matters with confidence.

Take the fear out of finance using accessible financial management tools. Gain clarity on complex/difficult data. Be certain, be confident, be empowered when dealing with finance. Master finance and have greater say in the strategic direction of your organization.

Managing Innovation

For those who see the opportunities of tomorrow today.

In today's fast-moving business environment, successful organizations anticipate and create opportunities, are flexible and act quickly and effectively for better business decisions. Improve your business performance through innovation management tools. Gain clarity on strategically important ideas that add value to your competitive position. Overcome the barriers/limitation to the innovation process.

Influencing and Negotiation

Discover and strengthen your personal influencing and negotiation styles.

Be cool when planning, delivering and closing negotiations. Learn the skills, confidence and self-awareness required to successfully influence others - internally and externally - to achieve lasting results.

Change Initiation

Embrace change. Embrace growth. Embrace success.

Survival of the fittest - change and grow to outperform the rest.

Today's challenging times show us that there is no certainty in the future, tomorrow could bring anything. Only the flexible and adaptable will be ready to react sufficiently quickly to the changing needs of customers and the market place.

Essential Marketing

Engage with your customers. Present and future.

Right product? Right place? Right time? Right price? Now market.

Successful organizations understand their customers, provide them with what they want and need and make them aware of the uniqueness of their offer. How do you understand what makes your products/services special? How do you match this to your best potential customers...and have them return, time and again?

Strategic Account Management

Improve your interaction with key customers for improved business success.

Achieve win/win solutions for customers and yourself using tools, tactics and techniques from strategic account management. Manage strategic accounts effectively by adding value at every step of the process through the long term.

Coaching and Mentoring

Identify potential - Encourage development - Realize success.

The best managers empower and inspire individuals for better performance.

Unleash your organization's hidden potential; support and encourage individuals to do what they do better. Inspire motivate and develop your most valuable asset - your people.

Project Management

Delivering results on time and to budget.

Develop simple techniques to manage complex projects.

Learn to plan, organize, and manage resources effectively for the successful completion of specific projects. Utilise resources optimally to overcome the limitations of time and money.

To reserve a place on any of the courses please click on individual course titles, or go to the booking form to book all eleven courses.


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