A highly interactive training course on

Management Skills and Techniques

Effective Goal Setting, Planning & Task Management
Coventry Academy -  Management Skills and Techniques
5
Days

Course Schedules

 London
 20-31 Jan 2025
 $11,900
 Istanbul
 07-18 Jul 2025
 $11,900
 Dubai
 20-31 Oct 2025
 $11,900

Training course overview

This comprehensive 10-day Coventry Academy training course is designed to revolutionize your approach to self-management, time management, task prioritization, and team leadership. By enhancing these skills, individuals and teams will become more efficient and motivated, significantly boosting productivity across all business functions.

In today's competitive landscape, organizations are increasingly seeking innovative methods to plan, execute, and achieve results effectively. This course equips participants with practical methodologies and cutting-edge personal development strategies aimed at elevating both individual and team performance to new heights of accomplishment and job satisfaction.

What are the goals?

By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Understand and develop the skills necessary to plan, set smart goals and reach deadlines without stress
  • Utilise a variety of methods to improve decision making, problem solving and creative thinking
  • Identify tasks that can be eliminated, prioritised, or delegated and become a master time and task manager
  • Analyse situations that hinder performance and identify techniques to overcome them
  • Develop the Interpersonal and emotional intelligence to create better team work and relationships

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

  • Anyone who desires to learn practical management techniques that will assist them in making good decisions, setting personal and team goals and develop personal and team plans
  • Line and functional Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors in organisations of all sizes
  • Intermediate and advanced level Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors within all sectors, private and public, profit and not-for-profit
  • Professionals who needs to become more effective and efficient in time management and planning

Course Outline

Module 1: Effective Time, Task & Work Planning

Day One: Getting Organised with Your Time, Tasks and Office Systems
  • Assess your productivity and identify areas for improvement
  • Activity logs, effective to-do lists and action programs
  • Managing your workflow, files, emails and office effectively
  • Prioritising events using the urgent/important matrix
  • Using leverage to get a greater return from your effort
Day Two: Achieving Results through Planning, Prioritizing and Delegation
  • Multiple applications for Mind mapping, and creating your first one
  • Utilising Gantt charts for sequencing events in project work
  • Effective scheduling – planning to make the best use of your time
  • Goal setting and meeting multiple deadlines
  • Assessing your delegating skills and improving effectiveness
Day Three: Overcoming Challenges in Time, Task, Work Planning
  • Managing interruptions and minimizing distractions
  • Dealing with late, disorganized or difficult people
  • Managing conflicting priorities and last-minute changes
  • Understand procrastination and develop strategies to overcome it
  • Running productive team meetings and making group decisions
Day Four: Achieving Results through Collaboration
  • Leading teams and improving their effectiveness
  • Develop vital, effective communication skills
  • Applying Emotional Intelligence to improve relationships
  • The art of concise clear conversations
  • Listening and giving feedback
Day Five: Successful Self-Management
  • How to energise and motivate yourself
  • Managing your stress and achieving work-life balance
  • Improving your concentration and focus
  • Increasing self-discipline, breaking bad habits and negative behaviours
  • The effective habits of a good time task manager

Module 2: Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making

Day Six: Create Goals That Actually Get Done
  • Macro and Micro Thinking: Getting clear about your purpose, vision, mission, values, goals and tasks and activities
  • The power of visioning and visualisation in setting and achieving goals
  • Harnessing the power of the subconscious mind, beliefs, attitudes and habits in goal setting
  • SMART Goals, HARD Goals or BHAG Goals, which one is right for you and your team
  • Strategic, Tactical and Operational Goal Setting in the Organisation
  • Management by Objectives – the pros and cons
Day Seven: Achieving Results through the Power of Planning
  • The many benefits of planning
  • Using mind-mapping for creative and logical thinking and project planning
  • Best practices and technologies for project planning and communication
  • Traditional planning vs new workplace planning
  • Single use plans, standing plans, contingency and crisis plans
  • Daily, short-term, midterm and long-term planning
 Day Eight: Getting things Done – Time and Task Management
  • Working smarter rather than harder through leveraging your time
  • Curing ‘last-minute-itis’ and creating good daily work habits
  • Prioritising, organizing and scheduling your work
  • Time Management secrets to adopt and time wasters to avoid
  • The 10 natural laws of successful time management
  • Best time management tools and technologies available
Day Nine: Decision Making – Tools, Techniques and Psychology
  • The art and science of good decisions
  • Personality types and how they decide – strengths and weaknesses
  • Best traits of an effective decision maker
  • Decision making pitfalls and how to avoid them
  • Logical and intuitive decision-making tools
  • Creativity and problem-solving tools
Day Ten: Leadership and Communication at Work
  • Empowered delegation – balancing task and team
  • Leadership styles for the new work place
  • Leading a team through times of change
  • Inspiring others – the art of persuasive presentations
  • Communication and emotional intelligence at work
  • Summary and action planning from the week’s course

The certificate

  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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