Management Skills Training

HR rosie

We have a manager (with 10 years of service) who could benefit (greatly) from attending a management training seminar, preferably one that covers leadership styles and provides a self assessment of one's management style. As part of my research, I am soliciting feedback from Forum participants. Is there anyone out there who could recommend a program or seminar they have had success with? I am not concerned with location - if we have to spend $$ on airfare to get her the best possible training, it would be money well spent.

Thank you for your input.

Pricehcs

We recently engaged AMA for an onsite class "Leading with Emotional Intelligence." Very positive results from the participants. Your stated objectives are very similar to some of the curriculum we were specifically aiming for in this class... If this isn't your specific cup of tea, we have utilized AMA for various mgmt./leadership classes in the past with good success. Not the cheapest, but overall the bang to hype ratio is positive.

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#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o

pork1

HR Rosie: I have had great success with our own HRHero Training programs. I use for our company the "10 Danger Zones" for Supervisors as a center piece, to which I have augmented with an additional set of modules dealing with Leadership and the management of our employees under our policy and procedures manuals.

ML Smith can probaly help you out with a schedule of when and where they will be conducting a Leadership and personnel supervisory program near you.

PORK

POPEYE

Pork - Please let me know who signs the check, James, Anne, Tammy .........

awilliams

Thanks for the positive feedback on the Danger Zones series, Pork. We're very proud of it.

Currently, we don't offer anything specifically for management training, however we have been looking into expanding our product offerings. I'll keep all of you aware of the progress we make.

P.S. I'm the redhead in the green suit in the 10 Danger Zones videos! It's my acting debut.

Anne Williams
Attorney Editor
M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC

SMace

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-03-04 AT 08:40PM (CST)[/font][br][br]I think Myers Briggs training may be useful for this person. It will take more than one session, though. We are having some difficulty with our managers expecting their direct reports to adjust to their management style. We are having some good folks leave as a result. What I'm trying to get across to them is a good manager will change their style to fit their direct report. We shall see.

Keep in mind that one week of training will not "fix" this manager. It will take laying out what the expectations are and following up wwith them.

sonny

I agree with smace. While the Danger Zones are good, they will not provide you with the self assessment and leadership styles. I am also a big fan of the Myers Briggs.

pork1

I agree with both of you guys on the value of Myers Briggs, In my "ISFJ" mode, off the scale on all four areas of interest I make a great HR, but it wears me out to get up infront of students to TEACH, but with lots of study, prep, and practice of doing it, I can do it with success. Leadership is a God given talent waiting to be developed and few if any leaders have been taught to be "leaders". Leadership comes from the experience and personal knowledge gained by watching others and taking on the leadership traits that one sees, hears, and can do themselves, which then developes the God given talent. Some never make it! We had a manager last week to quit after 9 months because he just could not come up with a vision of "how to run the organization and then make it happen"!
The 10 Danger Zones of Supervison augmented with two Leadership modules that talks to and demonstrates to the trainees a good starting point from which to grow. Maslow, Hertzberg, Myers-Briggs, and personal experiences make up the Leadership module I use to put the trainee into a basic understanding of Leadership and management of people in our employer/employee world.

HRhero and its staff do not pay me, but I'll be glad to consult on my in place module to help the development of a management piece.

PORK

System

I agree with SMace in that you won't immediately change this manager; also that the Danger Zones are decent. Most managers need periodic and ongoing training such as 'invoking teamwork,' 'effective verbal communication,' etc. There may be a good mentor in your organizational chain somewhere who can influence and encourage this 'leader.'

As a note, I worked for an organization that made all of us (managers) read "Flight of the Buffalo" and "Atlas Shrugged" and watch "Patton" in an all day staff meeting, then analyze George Patton's weaknesses and the reason for his failure. You can take a bizarre approach like that - some of it sinks in.

Don D

Now I know why you can be so tough!!

AnneHa

Good grief, Sam! If you did that all in one day, you are my new HR hero!

Anne in Ohio

System

I took the 'Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics' course. No, I didnt' do it all in one day. Besides, I thought 'Stripes' (Bill Murray) was a better management/motivation tool.

Crout

I've heard the Air Force academy used to make "Catch-22" required reading for leadership training. I recently got a new copy...it's one of favorites.