Course : Taking on the role of manager: tools and methods

Taking on the role of manager: tools and methods






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Practical course in person or remote class

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  4d - 28h00
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Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understand the manager's role, missions and stance
Organise activities: set objectives and manage results
Facilitate individual and group time
Familiarise yourself with the communication techniques in a management situation
Practice giving and receiving feedback
Understand labour law applied to management situations

Practical details
Hands-on work
Active and participatory teaching methods. Theory and practice with cases applied to the participants’ background and experiences. A one-month recess is planned between the course's two modules.
Teaching methods
In addition to this training, ORSYS provides Atlas members with Mobile Learning modules. These will be available 7 days before the training and for 30 days after the training.

Course schedule

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.


Dates and locations
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Remote class