Self Development: Self Improvement for Managers

Course Overview

Today we work in an increasingly pressurised environment where your personal effectiveness is called upon constantly. The key is taking command of your own behaviours, emotions and work practices to ensure you use the right skills when needed most. This course helps you step back and plan realistic ways to maintain and improve your performance level.

Audience

A foundation programme for all managers and supervisors who are committed to maximising their personal effectiveness at work.

Skills Gained

• How pressure and stress affects your performance at work
• Understand and develop mechanisms for coping with stress reactions
• How to develop longer term strategies to develop personal effectiveness

Course Outline

• Personal effectiveness: Identifying the key characteristics of effective people. Understanding the barriers to personal effectiveness
• Stress and performance: Understanding what stress is and how it happens. How to deal with stress as it occurs: Short term stress busting tips
• Taking control: Identifying and understanding the impact of your preferred work style:
• Type A/B questionnaire. Identifying actions to make your style work for you. How to focus on things you can influence
• Developing effectiveness: How to develop and manage activities which take up a lot of time. Goals and objectives - balancing professional and personal goals. Support networks: the benefits of a good network and how to map yours. The impact of personal health: how to improve your energy levels.
• Action planning: What have you learned? What needs to be different for you? How do you make it happen?

Self Development: Self Improvement for Managers / SPE