Epm 2010 Pre Course Work
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The document provides an overview of a training course titled "Effective People Management". The summary is: 1) The course aims to help managers build strong relationships with direct reports and confidently perform people management responsibilities. 2) Key topics include the critical role of managers, communication skills, leadership styles, motivation, and delegation. 3) Participants will apply the skills through exploring real employee situations and receiving coaching from others in trios.
![conflict I may have with another person is related to different communications styles.
We'll then explore how we might use our less favorite styles to enhance our relationships
with the team.
Leadership Styles
These styles, from the work of Hersey and Blanchard, are fundamental skills for a
manager as they explore the importance of diagnosis, and apply a more rigorous approach
to helping and supporting the growth and development of employees. The model says
that if an employee is not performing to standard, it will be because s/he either does not
have the competency, or s/he does not have the commitment level necessary to do the
task. (Buckingham and Coffman ask 2 similar questions, “is the poor performance
trainable? [and] is the poor performance caused by the manager tripping the wrong
[motivation] trigger?”) The manager's response to competency questions will be quite
different than their response to commitment questions. By applying a more rigorous
approach to diagnosis the manager can then be more confident that his or her intervention
will be more effective. And in the end, the more effective the intervention, the more
likely the relationship between the employee and manager will remain strong, and the
more likely that the employee will develop appropriate skills and behaviours.
As at the end of each of these modules, participants are given time to build an action plan
and to consider what they have learned that will help with the particular employee
situation they have brought with them.
Motivation
The next module explores how humans are motivated and how important the role of the
manager is in creating an environment where an employee is more likely to be motivated.
Our focus is on how the relationships we have and how a commitment to the learning and
growth of an employee contributes to their intrinsic motivation.
Delegation
In our final skill set exploration, we look at the steps required for effective delegation, so
that you can be that much more confident that what you have asked to be done is in fact
done. And again, it is likely that a strong working relationship will mean a more
effective transfer of information and expertise in the delegation process.
Effective People Management; Hands on Application
Each participant will then spend 15-20 minutes with 2 others, acting as coaches to
explore the particular situation they brought with them, to seek possible solutions and
direction. The work, done in trios is recognized by most participants as the most
important part of the 2 days, as they make some final adjustments to their action plans for
back at the office.
The course then wraps with any final questions, comments and commitment to some next
steps.
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Epm 2010 Pre Course Work
- 1. Effective People Management Pre-Course Work Welcome to Effective People Management; The Science of Management. Please take the time to read this package thoroughly and come prepared to the class. “We had discovered that the manager – not pay, benefits, perks, or a charismatic corporate leader – was the critical player in building a strong workplace. The manager was the key….An employee may join Disney or GE or Time Warner because she is lured by their generous benefits package and their reputation for valuing employees. But it is her relationship with her immediate manager that will determine how long she stays and how productive she is while she is there.” Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman At the end of our work together you’ll be able to, 1. Build and maintain the all important relationships with your direct reports and, 2. Perform your people management responsibilities more confidently and effectively. To support you, we will • Support you in identifying your strengths and skills • Give you feedback on your interpersonal and management styles • Provide foundation skills in managing people • Provide space for practice • Supply a framework so you can better manage – Communication – Culture – Change – Problem solving/conflict resolution – Stress We will answer questions like: 1. How can I ensure the job is done right without either interfering or micro- managing? 2. How can I involve people in key decisions without losing control? 3. How do I constructively address under or non- performance? 1
- 2. 4. How do I develop the potential of others? 5. How do I provide effective feedback? To get the most out of our work together you’re invited to; • Share and listen to each others’ skills and experience • Build a plan to implement what is important to you. Course Outline Introductions/Agenda and Objectives After the introductions and agenda setting at the start of Day 1, we work as a group to identify the objectives for the group, based on your personal objectives. By listing these objectives, we can then stay focused on learnings that are most important for you. The Role of the Manager The next phase explores the Role of the Manager and it is here that we will first specifically look at the work of Buckingham and Coffman, (and others like Beck and Yeager, and Whitworth et al). The key to employee productivity and retention is in the strength of the relationship between the employee and his/her immediate supervisor. We also link the Service Profit Chain (Heskett, Sasser & Schlessinger) to the course, concluding that the role of the manager is to inspire/lead/challenge/provoke/teach/coach/mentor the employee focused on the employee's learning and growth, and to do that within a healthy and growing relationship. The rest of the two days then helps managers with some of the technical skills and knowledge involved in building and enhancing strong relationships and the coaching/mentoring/provoking/inspiring skills required to enhance employee learning and growth. Communications Skills Foundational to any relationship, especially a relationship based on learning and growth are communications skills. In this module, we explore some of these skills, (written, verbal and non verbal skills, active listening, open/closed questions, giving and receiving feedback, and preliminary conflict management), using exercises, lecture, case study and dialogue. Again our focus is on practice using these skills to build and enhance relationships with the team and to support the learning and growth of the individual employee. Communication Styles Related to communication skills, is the important element from the work of Carl Jung that each of us will have a dominant communication style. Using a basic psychometric tool, each participant will get a report identifying his/her dominant, back up, tertiary and least favored communications style. Using exercises and dialogue, we'll then explore how these styles work together, or not, within a team, recognizing that indeed some of the 2
- 3. conflict I may have with another person is related to different communications styles. We'll then explore how we might use our less favorite styles to enhance our relationships with the team. Leadership Styles These styles, from the work of Hersey and Blanchard, are fundamental skills for a manager as they explore the importance of diagnosis, and apply a more rigorous approach to helping and supporting the growth and development of employees. The model says that if an employee is not performing to standard, it will be because s/he either does not have the competency, or s/he does not have the commitment level necessary to do the task. (Buckingham and Coffman ask 2 similar questions, “is the poor performance trainable? [and] is the poor performance caused by the manager tripping the wrong [motivation] trigger?”) The manager's response to competency questions will be quite different than their response to commitment questions. By applying a more rigorous approach to diagnosis the manager can then be more confident that his or her intervention will be more effective. And in the end, the more effective the intervention, the more likely the relationship between the employee and manager will remain strong, and the more likely that the employee will develop appropriate skills and behaviours. As at the end of each of these modules, participants are given time to build an action plan and to consider what they have learned that will help with the particular employee situation they have brought with them. Motivation The next module explores how humans are motivated and how important the role of the manager is in creating an environment where an employee is more likely to be motivated. Our focus is on how the relationships we have and how a commitment to the learning and growth of an employee contributes to their intrinsic motivation. Delegation In our final skill set exploration, we look at the steps required for effective delegation, so that you can be that much more confident that what you have asked to be done is in fact done. And again, it is likely that a strong working relationship will mean a more effective transfer of information and expertise in the delegation process. Effective People Management; Hands on Application Each participant will then spend 15-20 minutes with 2 others, acting as coaches to explore the particular situation they brought with them, to seek possible solutions and direction. The work, done in trios is recognized by most participants as the most important part of the 2 days, as they make some final adjustments to their action plans for back at the office. The course then wraps with any final questions, comments and commitment to some next steps. 3
- 4. Pre-course Preparation 1. After reviewing the course content, list those desired outcomes that would make you feel that your time had been worthwhile: 2. Thinking about best performers in your work group, what are the factors/behaviours (be specific) that make them the best. 3. Identify a task, as a manager, you would like to delegate to an employee. Be prepared to discuss and use this example during the program. 4. List and describe a current employee situation (performance, behaviour, quality of work, absenteeism etc.) about which you are concerned and would like to work through in the classroom: 5.List and describe a current employee situation (performance, behaviour, quality of work, etc.) where the employee is surpassing nearly all or all of your expectations, and you’d like to work through their success in the classroom. 4
- 5. Effective People Management Bibliography Beck, John D. W. and Neil M. Yeager, The Leader’s Window 2nd ed. Palo Alto: Davies Black, (2001) Buckingham, Marcus and Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules New York: Simon & Shuster, (1999) Daloz, Laurent A. Parks, Keen, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Parks, Sharon Daoz, Common Fire; Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World, Boston, Beacon Press (1996) Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Leonard A. Schlesinger, The Service Profit Chain, New York: The Free Press, (1997) Heifetz, Ronald, A., Linsky, Marty, Leadership on the Line, Boston: Harvard Business School, (2002) Hessebein, Frances, Goldsmith, Marshall, eds. The Leader of the Future 2, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (2006) http://www.kenblanchard.com/ Parks, Sharon Daloz, Leadership Can Be Taught, Boston, Harvard Business School, (2005) http://www.situational.com/ Whitworth, Laura, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, and Philip Sandahl Co- Active Coaching, 2nd ed. Boston: Davies-Black, 2007 5