MANAGING EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE

Aims

The programme is designed for managers and supervisors. It integrates best practice techniques in the management of teams, tasks and processes and uses case studies and syndicate exercises to enable participants to explore and trial a set of innovative techniques.

The programme enables delegates to:

  • Achieve high levels of performance from staff
  • Sustain continuous commitment and focused motivation from teams
  • Maximise resource exploitation whilst maintaining quality
  • Research and develop best practices
  • Focus themselves and their teams on high value activities
  • Build a set of effective key performance indicators

Duration: 3 days

DAY ONE - Focus on Processes

Session 1

Identifying core processes and value-adding processes within the department and the organisation

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 2

Techniques to research, manage, sell & embed process re-design, within the organisation

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 3

Identifying, communicating and coaching best practices

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, video material & syndicate exercises

Session 4

Learning from failure: how to evaluate business failure and communicate the required changes and to coach the necessary learning objectives

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, video material & role plays

End of Day One

Managing Excellent Performance, continued…

DAY TWO - Focus on the Team

Session 5

Building a self-motivating team

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, role plays & syndicate exercises

Session 6

Delivering team and individual empowerment to enhance performance

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, video material & syndicate exercises

Session 7

Performance measurement, and evaluation of the team

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 8

Developing an appropriate team-management style

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, psychometric exercises & syndicate exercises

End of Day Two

DAY THREE - Focus on Tasks

Session 9

Using analytical tools to assess tasks in terms of value delivered: differentiated by customer satisfaction, profitability and best use of resources

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 10

Evaluating the cost implications of key processes

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 11

Building key performance indicators from activity analysis

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, case studies & syndicate exercises

Session 12

Action-planning and problem-solving, integrating the analytical techniques presented on the course

Delivered by: Presentation, discussion, individual & syndicate exercises

End of course