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Highly Effective Management (PDHEM)

Length 2 days

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Why study this course

This Highly Effective Management Training Course will focus on management challenges and offer managers opportunities to develop key skills that can be put into practice on a daily basis.

All managers need a framework in which to operate. Managers need to know the most effective techniques for guiding teams, mentoring individuals, and validating the results. Without solid methods, managers will revert back to using a one-size-fits-all approach to management that may impact on employee morale, productivity, and retention.

This course is delivered in partnership with PD Training.

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Define 'management'
Explain the ethics and social responsibility of management
Manage business information
Explore managerial decision making
Define control processes (what, why, how)
Master organisational strategy and how to create a sustainable, competitive advantage
Foster innovation and change in the workplace
Explore organisational design and structures
Leverage organisational strategies to facilitate change
Create structures and processes to manage teams
Gain insight into organisational motivation and leadership
Implement motivation and leadership strategies

PD Training at Lumify Work

PD Training is Australia's leading provider of professional development training, cutting edge psychometric profiling and HR services. They help companies provide training and development to their staff that is on-target, fun, retained, and achieves their goals.
Lumify Work partners with PD Training to offer an extensive range of Professional Development training and short courses, through a network of over 400 specialist trainers.

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Who is the course for?

This is a practical class that is suitable for all audiences, and provides participants with tools they can apply on-the-job (and in other contexts) the very next day.

Course subjects

Lesson 1: Introduction to Management

What is management?
What do managers do?
What does it take to be a manager?
Why does management matter?

Lesson 2: Ethics and Social Responsibility

What is ethical workplace behaviour?
What is unethical workplace behaviour?
How to make ethical decisions
What is social responsibility?

Lesson 3: Managing Information

Why information matters
Strategic importance of information
Characteristics and costs of useful Information
Getting and sharing Information

Lesson 4: Decision-Making

What is rational decision-making?
Steps to rational decision-making
Limits to rational decision-making
Improving decision-making

Lesson 5: Control

Basics of control
The control process
Is control necessary or possible?
How and what to control
Control methods

Lesson 6: Organisational Strategy

Basics of Organisational Strategy
Sustainable competitive advantage
Strategy-making process
Corporate, industry, firm level strategies

Lesson 7: Innovation and Change

Organisational innovation
Why innovation matters
Managing innovation
Organisational change
Why change occurs and why it matters
Principles of Managing change

Lesson 8: Organisational Structures and Process

Departmentalisation
Organisational authority
Job design
Designing organisational process

Lesson 9: Managing Teams

Kinds of teams
The good and the bad of using teams
Work team characteristics
Enhancing work team effectiveness

Lesson 10: Motivation and Leadership

Basics of motivation
Equity theory
Expectancy theory
What is leadership?
Situational leadership
Strategic leadership

Prerequisites

None

THIRD PARTY REGISTRATION

Lumify Work offers training through our partnership with PD Training. This arrangement requires Lumify Work to provide your details to PD Training for course and/or exam registration purposes.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.