Training and development of managerial skills
Training and development of managerial skills has been a new product line within the offer of Outward Bound - Česká cesta since 2005.
It is based on the need to provide the clients with a tangible output from the completed course based on their specific needs, in form of acquired managerial skills.
Motto:
We will discover your weakness, so that nobody else could discover it.
We regard the training form only as a means to achieve the set objectives. We therefore combine the two main directions we can encounter on our market in the area of corporate education. We effectively connect the many years of our experience with outdoor programmes, based on the active involvement and individual experience of the participants, with the tools and approaches from the indoor environment.
This product area is based on a repeated training of selected skills.
The participants are offered the necessary tools and theoretical models, which they subsequently master within the offered activities.
The primary objective is to transfer the acquired abilities and skills into the actual working environment.
Within this product line, we are the first in the Czech Republic for work with the method Theatre in Management.
target audience
The training courses are intended for individuals, working groups and teams, which need to acquire specific managerial skills to use them in the actual working environment.
In the training course, you will gain insight into the overall context relating to a particular skill. We will offer you the theoretical background, functional models and tools to be used in practice. Within the repeated training, you will connect the theory with the practice, and transform it into a specific skill.
The training is suitable for those, who
- have an idea about the skills they need to strengthen and improve
- would like to use self-reflection to learn, in which areas they can do better, in order to improve in these areas
- are ready to actively participate in the training, and are willing to work on themselves; to look for and test new approaches leading to development of their skills.
types of courses we conduct:
- one-time training programmes focused on partial managerial skills selected based on the client’s specific needs
- long-term project of management development consisting of a series of courses for the same group of participants, in which we gradually develop partial managerial skills, in order to eventually use and verify them in solving of complex tasks and actual projects
To determine the content focus of the training (either a standalone one, or as a part of a larger series), the basic managerial skills are first divided by their principal topic: people (who) – objectives (what) – processes (how)
Basic managerial skills focused on leadership:
who: people, with whom we work, and thanks to whom we attain the set goals (superiors, subordinates, business partners, clients, etc.) Key tools:
- personality typology: use of different approaches resulting from the personality disposition of people in their mutual communication
- motivation: leadership with respect to the motivation of people, provision of the necessary stimuli, adjustment of tasks to people, so that the performance of tasks alone motivated the people
- positions and roles: the position within the team, team roles and team cooperation, effective assignment of people to specific roles based on their personality potential
Basic managerial skills focused on setting of objectives:
what: what must be achieved, what should be the outcome of the work Key tools:
- problem analysis: taking account of all the available information in setting of objectives, looking for and choosing the solutions
- setting of objective: definition of the primary objective, so that it met the necessary criteria, and it would be possible to retrospectively determine, whether the objective was or was not achieved; definition of secondary objectives necessary to achieve the primary objective
- planning: drafting of the time schedule and the logical sequence of individual steps, determination of critical points, preparation of emergency solutions in case of collision at critical points
Basic managerial skills focused on process control:
how: in which way and using what instruments we achieve the set objectives with the others Key tools:
- communication: verbal and non-verbal communication, exchange of information, receiving and providing feedback, conducting work meetings, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, business skills
- process control: assignment of tasks, situational management, ability to respond to changes, making quick decisions, and adopting decisions in a group, delegation
- effectiveness: analysis of the potential of available resources, process setup to use the available resources efficiently
- continuous control: determination and use of controls, correction of running processes in case of a diversion from the original plan
- working with time: ability to estimate the time allocated to individual phases of problem solving, continuous monitoring of time, and adjustment of the processes in progress to the set deadline
