1
Position yourself: role, missions, responsibilities and stance
- Identify a manager’s key missions: responsibilities, expected qualities and behaviours.
- Recognise a team's different development phases and the expected managerial attitudes.
- Adopt situational management.
- Map your team.
- Adopt assertive behaviour.
Hands-on work
Digital word cloud on the topic: roles and missions of a manager. Reflection on the managerial attitudes expected at each stage in a team’s life. Self diagnostics. Case study: what is the most appropriate management style? Discussion.
2
Organising ideas, scoping, structuring
- Take into account power relations, and identify opponents, contributors, etc.
- Define, structure and reassure: set out operating rules and give meaning.
- Set clear and motivating objectives.
- Manage the results.
Hands-on work
Digital survey on the theme: SMART goal. Exercise on the theme: setting a SMART goal. Digital word cloud on the theme: managing results. Discussion.
3
Communicating and involving
- Understand the communication process: sender, message, receiver.
- Focus on the other person and assess the situation: active listening.
- Learn to question concrete actions. Open and closed questions.
- Ensure that the other person is well understood and eliminate listening interferences: reformulation.
- Give priority to constructive formulations and the right words.
- Use the right non-verbal language and pay attention to the other person to better interact.
- Convince and bounce back following objections.
- Action plan: participants communicate their objectives for the next two days to the trainer.
Hands-on work
Word cloud on the theme: key success factors for effective communication. Fun exercise on active listening. Role play on questioning and the art of convincing and bouncing back following objections. Discussion in sub-groups on preferred formulations and the right words.
4
Facilitate individual time effectively
- Lead a delegation: from preparation to assessment.
- Make any mistake a source of improvement.
- Give and receive feedback constructively.
- Know how to reprimand using the DEPAR tool.
- Know how to congratulate.
- Know how to remobilise.
- Conduct the annual appraisal interview.
Hands-on work
Case study on delegation. Role play with a personalised analysis on the themes: handling errors; remobilising. Experiments on the themes: constructive criticism; reprimanding. Feedback and group discussion.
5
Facilitating group time effectively
- Set up the conditions for a successful meeting.
- Reprimand deviations.
Hands-on work
Digital word cloud on the theme: conditions for a successful meeting. Role play with a personalised analysis on the theme: Reprimanding deviations. Discussion.
6
Understand labour law applied to management situations
- The different employment contracts and contractual clauses.
- Know the duties of employees and managers.
- Legal duration, overtime and flat rates.
- Absences.
- The various penalties.
Exercise
Quiz. Discussion.