Leadership & Management

It’s easy to forget the “manager” part of your “project manager” title amongst all the activity during a project. However, it is crucial that you hone your management skills as they are an important part of your success as a project manager. There are also some advanced project management techniques that you can master to help bring your projects to the next level. These are the two areas that we will focus on in this one-day workshop.

This workshop presumes that you have a thorough understanding of project management, including topics such as preparing a statement of work, setting project goals, scheduling, budgeting, managing project risks, and executing a project.

Benefits:

• Think critically when choosing a project team
• Make the best of an assigned project team
• Help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning machine
• Maximize productivity at team meetings
• Reward and motivate your team
• Develop and execute a communication plan
• Communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively
• Identify problem team members and strategies for working with them

Course Content:

• Choosing the Project Team
• Scheduling your Project
• Building a winning Team
• Team Meetings
• Nine ways to reward your team
• Developing a communication plan
• Communicating with sponsors and executives
• Dealing with problem team members

Our Guarantee: 

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion

Duration 

2 Day Work-Shop

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For further information, fill in a course enquiry form, call us on +353 (046) 9249618 or e-mail info@midasgroup.ie – To register for this course, download the attached Booking Form and post /fax or call the registration line on +353 (046) 9252937

This 2 day workshop is a tool for your leadership development. It is designed to help you create and accomplish your personal best, and to help you lead others to get extraordinary things done. At its core, leadership means setting goals, lighting a path, and persuading others to follow. But the responsibility entails much more. By accepting the challenge to lead, you come to realize that the only limits are those you place on yourself.

Benefits:

• Identify your leadership profile and explore how you can use this knowledge to create your own future
• Assess your leadership competencies and learn how you can develop your strengths
• Identify those additional skills and tools that can make you a better leader
• Develop your ability to influence and communicate with others
• Become a better problem-solver and decision-maker
• Discover how you can prepare for and embrace the forces of change
• Create a strategy to actively use these skills back in the workplace

Course Content: 

• Leadership profile and competencies to highlight your strengths and challenges
• Directional and consequential thinking and how to develop these skills
• Strategies for influencing others through improved communication and interaction
• Your role in making meetings effective, both as a leader and as a participant
• Critical problem-solving skills and the tools and techniques you can use
• Strategic Planning with a SWOT analysis to introduce change
• Ways to manage the change process effectively for sustainable growth

Our Guarantee: 

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion

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For further information, fill in a course enquiry form, call us on +353 (046) 9249618 or e-mail info@midasgroup.ie – To register for this course, download the attached Booking Form and post /fax or call the registration line on +353 (046) 9252937

Delegation is often one of the hardest skills for a manager to master. However, the skill can be learned. This one-day workshop will explore many of the facets of delegation: when to delegate, and who to delegate to. We will also go through the delegation process step by step, to see where the pitfalls lie, and what we can do about getting around them.

Benefits:

• Clearly identify how delegation fits into your job and how it can make you more successful
• Identify different ways of delegating tasks
• Use an eight-step process for effective delegation
• Give better instructions for better delegation results
• Ask better questions and listen more effectively
• Recognize common delegation pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Test your delegation skills

Course Content: 

• What is delegation?
• Why delegate?
• Picking the right person
• The delegation meeting
• Levels of authority
• Giving instructions
• Communication skills
• Monitoring delegation
• Practicing delegation
• Giving feedback
• Becoming a good delegator

Our Guarantee: 

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion

Duration 

1 Day Work-Shop

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For further information, fill in a course enquiry form, call us on +353 (046) 9249618 or e-mail info@midasgroup.ie – To register for this course, download the attached Booking Form and post /fax or call the registration line on +353 (046) 9252937

In today’s changing workplace, many new supervisors are unsure of their roles and responsibilities. They have little experience dealing with the challenges of managing work through others. They haven’t had the opportunity to develop those critical skills of planning work, leading their group, and communicating with their employees, their colleagues, and their manager. This three-day workshop is designed to help you overcome many of the supervisory problems you will encounter in your first few weeks as a boss, whether you are a team leader, a project manager, or a unit coordinator. Dealing with the many problems a new supervisor encounters isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to lead to discouragement

Benefits:

• You will understand the scope and nature of the supervisory position
• Adjust to the new role with confidence and an assurance you can handle the position
• Develop your skills in listening, asking questions, resolving conflict, and giving feedback to employees
• Develop a technique for making sure you give employees instructions that are clear and understood
• Identify some techniques to deal with employee challenges, such as hostility, complaints, and laziness
• Understand the importance of developing good relationships with employees and peers, so you are seen as fair and consistent
• You will recognize the responsibilities you have as a supervisor, to yourself, to your team, and to your organization.
• You will identify key techniques to help you plan and prioritize effectively
• You will acquire a basic understanding of and develop strategies for leadership, team building, communication, and motivation and what part they play in effective supervision

Course Content: 

• Responsibilities of a supervisor
• Setting goals
• Planning for success
• Communication skills
• Team Development
• Motivation, orientation and training
• Delegation
• Providing feedback
• Managing conflict
• The reciprocal quality of relationships

Our Guarantee: 

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion

Duration 

3 Day Work-Shop

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For further information, fill in a course enquiry form, call us on +353 (046) 9249618 or e-mail info@midasgroup.ie – To register for this course, download the attached Booking Form and post /fax or call the registration line on +353 (046) 9252937

It’s no secret, employees who feel they are valued and recognized for the work they do, are more motivated, responsible, and productive. This is a busy one-day workshop to help supervisors and managers create a more dynamic, loyal, and energized workplace. This program is designed specifically to help busy managers and supervisors understand what employees want and to provide them with a starting point for creating champions

Benefits: 

• Identify what motivation is
• Learn about common motivational theories and how to apply them
• Learn when to use the carrot, the whip, and the plant
• Discover how fear and desire affect employee motivation
• Explore ways to create a motivational climate and design a motivating job

Course Content: 

• What is motivation?
• Supervising and motivation
• Motivational theories
• The carrot, the whip and the plant
• Fear and desire
• Setting goals
• The role of values
• Creating a motivational climate
• The Expectancy Theory
• Designing a motivational job
• A motivational checklist

Our Guarantee

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Small interactive classes
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion

Duration

1 Day Work-Shop

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For further information, fill in a course enquiry form, call us on +353 (046) 9249618 or e-mail info@midasgroup.ie – To register for this course, download the attached Booking Form and post /fax or call the registration line on +353 (046) 9252937