Course Overview

• This program provides an introduction to finance and accounting and it assumes no prior knowledge of either.
• The program is designed to train the participants from every non-financial area of the company.
• Those attending will leave with a clear understanding of essential finance and accounting terminology and methods through practical examples which will reinforce the principles and techniques outlined.

Objectives

Participants on this program will:

• Develop the skills and knowledge required in support of their personal development and roles within their organisations
• Appreciate the importance of the accounting and finance function with regard to its links with every part of the organisation, and its suppliers, customers, shareholders, lenders, and society in general
• Develop a clear understanding of finance and accounting terminology thereby allowing them to make a valuable contribution to the workplace in meetings or in a supportive role
• Develop a clear understanding of accounting methods including:

• Accounting principles & practices
• Preparation of financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements)
• Basic analysis & interpretation of financial statements
• Budgeting & costing for the company

Who Should Attend?

The program is primarily aimed at everyone who does not currently work in the accounting or financial functions to enable them to manage their responsibilities better to include:

• Operations
• Marketing
• Planning
• Engineering
• Maintenance
• Etc.

Personal Impact

You will develop a clear understanding of the essentials of finance and accounting, which will enable you to:

• Improve your role in the workplace
• Increase your awareness of the major issues facing your company
• Enable you to further your professional skills.
• Enable you to liaise effectively with line managers and other departments
• Improve your status in the organisation as those around you realise and appreciate your knowledge and understanding

Organisational Impact

The organisation will gain from staff, which as a result of participation will:

• Contribute more effectively
• Assist others more effectively and efficiently
• Appreciate the importance of finance within the organisation
• Be motivated to add value to their role for the good of the organisation

 Competencies Emphasized

The program will focus on the following areas through the clear use of terminology and concepts as well as case studies:

• Accounting principles & practices
• Preparation of financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements)
• Basic analysis & interpretation of financial statements
• Budgeting & costing for the company

Program Summary

The overall aim of the program is for those attending to leave with a clear understanding of all the essential finance and accounting terminology and concepts to enable them to perform more effectively and efficiently within the workplace.

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In today’s demanding and rapidly changing environment taking time out for lengthy periods of study is a luxury that many individuals or organisations can ill afford. The Executive Mini-MBA is a concentrated way to focus on the core elements of an MBA; leadership and strategy in times of significant change, finance, critical thinking and performance excellence. It will provide real insights into current techniques and strategic thinking to re-energise your thinking and inject new vigour into your management style.

The program will include a full personality profile, Quest, which will provide feedback on personality, leadership style, team styles and conflict management styles.

Who Should Attend

The programme’s design is suitable for leaders from any function or business sector. It offers a rare opportunity to learn with colleagues whose experience will be drawn from a wide array of different sectors, including:

• People who need a rapid executive summary of some of the latest thinking and concepts
• Executives who want to improve their general management capability and explore what the high performers of today’s commercial world are thinking and doing and how their companies are succeeding
• Time challenged senior executives who cannot afford the time demands of full or part time MBA type programmes
• People who want to invest in their own intellectual capital and asset base
• Executives who want to secure some valuable thinking time about their business away from the day-to-day crises and pressures
• Executives who want to develop a wider business outlook and break out of any narrow functional perspectives

Why you should invest in this programme?

Focusing on key areas that determine real business results and rewards, this programme is full of practical tips, tools and techniques – all underpinned with tried-and-tested business principles.

Five intensive days of executive development will:

1 CHALLENGE your thinking around your current business model
2 FOCUS on the financials of your business and understand how to directly impact the bottom line
3 MAKE a direct impact on the changes essential for the success of your organisation
4 POSITION yourself as a leader in your business
5 ASSIST you to get the best out of yourself, your team and colleagues
6 PROVIDE an opportunity to think about the compass as opposed to the clock

Style of working

• Interactive, engaging, thought provoking, informative, fun
• Provides real-life examples of corporate practice and management skills
• Presenters share business and consulting experience
• Provides a series of helpful frameworks and tools
• Team-based learning to benefit from the experiences of other attendees in an open learning environment
• Real life corporate examples from a diversity of businesses including: Astra Zenica, BP, MacDonalds, Schlumberger, Starbucks, Unilever.

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Course Overview

Many individual contributors have a wealth of experience at handling day to day management issues and are now ready for a bigger challenge. Research has shown that this transition from individual contributor to leader is a challenge for all individuals. This program is about exploring and mastering skills that will confidently take you to the next level of competence.

What is the difference between leadership and management? By looking at the John Kotter Leadership model, we candefine Leadership and Management in the following ways:

The leader makes a new future happen by creating the vision, encouraging people to align with the change and make the change happen. It is a particularly challenging activity as it requires creating a new future – as Robert Quinn says – building the bridge as you walk on it. The manager works on the detail of the day to day work to ensure results are delivered. Every supervisor has to combine these two strands of capability depending on their focus in the moment.

To assist in this process, we need insights into what drives individual behaviour and how the culture works for or against change. The program then examines team dynamics in the context of the culture and looks at functional and dysfunctional behaviour and how dysfunctional behaviour can be reshaped. The whole complex area of motivation, reward and getting the best from the team is explored in detail.

Finally participants spend some time making action plans for what they want to change when they get back to their own environment.

Benefits of Attending

By the end of this program participants will have learned to make the transition from individual contributor to first line leader by:

• Acquiring a range of leadership styles and being equipped to make an informed choice as to which one is most appropriate in different situations
• Understanding what drives individual behaviour
• Analysing the culture of their organisation and recognising its strengths and weaknesses
• Exploring team dynamics and discovering their own preferred team roles
• Having a range of tools to motivate and reward performance
• Becoming aware of the techniques of influencing and how they are best used to persuade different styles of decision makers
• Becoming aware of the techniques of influencing and how they are best used to persuade different styles of decision makers
• Having a framework for implementing successful change programmes backed up by compelling communications
• Ensuring that they have the core skills of management in place
• Preparing an action plan

Organizational Impact

Employees who attend this program will be motivated and confident to move up to the next level. They will have the competence to avoid common pitfalls at more senior levels through their ability to deliver more results with fewer resources. They will be equipped to make a significant contribution to moving their organisation in desired directions and steer their teams through complex scenarios.

Personal Impact

Participants will leave the program with new insights into their preferred leadership style and a range of other styles that will be more appropriate in certain situations. Accordingly they will improve the prospect that those whom they lead will want to follow them even through complex change. They will also have refined their ability to influence senior management peers and subordinates.

Training Methodology

While underpinned with robust theory, the program is highly interactive with case studies, role plays and self revealing questionnaires. Learning will be enhanced through active involvement in exercises followed by review. Opportunities for self assessment will be provided and feedback on individual and group performance will be encouraged. Participants will work on their own individual team issues during the program. Articles, relevant to the program, will be included as support material.

Who should attend?

• Those who want to make the transition from competent professional to inspirational leader
• Those who have some experience at supervisor / professional level and are ready to take on a wider role
• Those who need a deeper understanding of what drives individual behaviour and group dynamics
• Those who need to hone their influencing skills to get results that matter
• Those about to embark on leading a change program within their organisation

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Course Overview

This course provides strategies, tools, techniques and tips to set priorities and manage the pressures of meeting important and urgent commitments in your life. The course does not incorporate a standard time management tool or a one-size-fits-all model. Instead, it provides a Manager’s Toolkit for you to use in developing a personalised time-management system, tailored to your needs and habits.

How does this course differ from traditional time management training?

Participants develop a clear sense of purpose, set goals and learn to structure their priorities in order to meet their commitments and achieve their goals through their own efforts and through others.

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone who wants to focus on the important things in their professional and personal lives will find this course beneficial. Managers and supervisors at all levels will be able to create a personal time-management system that works for them.
This course is important for individuals who are not working effectively due to interruptions, excessive meetings, changing priorities, appointments, schedules and deadlines. The tools and techniques presented will help as you build the necessary foundation to further your career.

By the end of this course you will be able to…

• Recognise the value of effective time management to yourself, your team and your organisation.
• Clarify your own and your team’s objectives, key areas of responsibility and priorities.
• Identify and overcome the primary causes of poor time management for yourself and your team.
• Identify time wasters and personal preferences that affect performance in the workplace.
• Prioritise your tasks and cope more effectively with day-to-day demands and pressures.
• Learn to plan ahead and use your time more effectively to increase personal and team productivity.
• Make effective decisions
• Delegate tasks effectively
• Manage meetings to deliver positive outcomes

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Course Overview

Do difficult people exist at work? Certainly we come across difficult behaviours that result both in individual poor performance and in a negative impact on the team. These behaviours come in every variety and no workplace is without them. I have even heard it said that every department has 20 % high performers and 20% poor performers, as if, this was an acceptable situation.

People come in every conceivable variety. Some talk constantly and never listen. Others must always have the last word. Some coworkers fail to keep commitments. Others criticise anything that does not match their specific views. Coworkers compete with you for power, privilege and the spotlight. Ultimately, these individuals cannot deliver the results that are expected of them and department outcomes are not met or are met only by others taking on more responsibility.

However, we all work within a system and sometimes we, ourselves, might cause or encourage poor behaviours. Self awareness will help us to recognise how we impact on others, how we help them to be effective and how in not taking quick action, we might encourage even more of the difficult behaviours.

Whatever the situation, you must address it. No matter the type of difficult situation with which you find yourself, dealing with it is essential. This program seeks to help you face up to the challenging situation and have a variety of strategies for dealing with them.

At the end of the program, participants will:

• Recognise how they operate in the workplace
• Understand their social style and how to communicate more effectively with others
• Know how to build rapport, listen and ask questions
• Use transactional analysis to understand their interactions with others
• Expand their use of influencing styles
• Use the GROW model as one technique to build useful conversations
• Have access to a number of feedback approaches
• Be confident in giving assertive feedback

Course Overview:

The Harvard Professor, Linda Hill, stated that learning how to lead is a process of learning and unlearning. If you’re a really successful star producer, you have to unlearn to create the space to learn how to transform your professional identity. It’s a very deep kind of learning—a different mindset, a different set of values. Many people reported ‘I never knew a promotion would be so painful’ because of that unlearning process.

It’s so much harder to assess your impact through others, so becoming a manager is not only about the acquisition of competencies, but really the acquisition of a new professional identity to be able to do the work you need to do when you’re working with other people, as opposed to doing the work yourself.  This Program helps the participants to face this transition and define new ways of working that will allow them to be effective leaders in their organisation.

This program seeks to assist recently appointed leaders and supervisors to transition into the leadership role. This is the most significant and challenging transition – from subject matter expert to delivering results through a team.

During this two day program participants:

• Understand the transformation process to leader
• Ensure all your people care about and understand their impact on the customer experience
• Understand their personal impact on others and flex their communication and behavioural styles and approaches to improve working relationships
• Empower, support, coach and challenge your people to grow and perform at their best
• Articulate and role model your personal leadership “brand” and values while valuing others’ strengths and differences
• Communicate openly and transparently, continually monitoring your impact and adapting your behaviour

 The Delegates

• Recently appointed Team leaders
• Team leaders keen to further their management skills
• Department or Functional managers
• Project managers
• Leaders who wish to re-establish organisational purpose and direction

 Leadership Challenge

It is essential that each participant brings a leadership challenge to work on during the program – e.g. developing a vision, making critical change

 The Benefits: Typical results at work include:

• A leader who concentrates on the important issues and aligns their team with what really needs to be done
• Effective communication that will instigate changes to be made in the organisation
• Improved motivation
• Enhanced team working
• A proactive approach towards change

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Course Overview

Most of us need to influence other people whether our boss to get their agreement to a holiday or a child to get them to eat their vegetables. The best influencers have good interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to get other people to want to give their support. The best negotiators are subtle, fair and know what to give away, when to make demands and how to compensate when there are difficulties.

Knowing what you want and discovering what others want are the keys to effective negotiation. The Influencing and Persuading Skills course will help you build skills and confidence to negotiate with others and develop persuading and influencing skills. By focusing specifically on the use of language and language patterns participants will learn a range of tools and techniques to enhance their communication skills in situations where they need to negotiate, persuade and influence effectively

During this program participants:

• To create resourceful inner states and how to use them consciously in achieving their outcomes.
• To formulate worthwhile goals and understand how to go about achieving them.
• Fully understand your primary influence and persuasion style and how it impacts others.
• Develop a strategy that will assist when communicating with others to achieve your ideal outcome.
• Use enhanced persuasion skills to act as an opinion shaper amongst your colleagues.
• Develop a practical toolkit that will aid handling difficult people and situations.
• Understand and apply the core principles of negotiation

The Delegates

• Team, Department or Functional managers who seek to improve their      ability to influence and persuade
• Project leaders who negotiate with stakeholders
• Operational personnel who interact with customers and colleagues
• Any professionals who interact with clients and customers

The Benefits: Typical results at work include:

• Being more influential with everyone around you
• Effective communication that will encourage change for self and      others
• Quicker agreements or clarity that an agreement is not possible

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ILM Certified

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