Management Training Course
Management Training Course
Management training is important because managing tasks and managing people, is itself, a difficult task.
Good management skills are difficult to develop. If you can find a person who has developed all the major management skills to a high degree, then you have found a person who is worth a lot to you.
Most people have some management skills developed to some degree.
But most people, practically all of us, have certain elements of our management skills which may be considered underdeveloped, and therefore in need of some improvement. So, you may be on line today, looking for a good management training course.
There are many management training courses, but unfortunately some of them are not very good. Too many management courses are filled with material that is "interesting but not very helpful".
As an example of interesting but not very helpful training: there is a management training model called "The Four Stages of team development"; which is the idea that teams go through stages of development that are called:
Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing.
"The Four Stages of team development" theory might be true but the model is a DESCRIPTIVE model and does not really PRESCRIBE or suggest how you could improve your personal actions to create an improved set of results.
Please note the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive training.
Descriptive versus prescriptive models of training
Imagine that we were talking about nutritional training, rather than management training.
If I were a nutritionist, I could teach you what people in the UK tend to eat and drink: they tend to eat a lot of chips, chicken, chocolate and they tend to drink a lot of wine and beer. This knowledge is descriptive training. I am telling you what actually happens. It may be interesting, but it does not tell you what to do.
If on the other hand I was a prescriptive trainer, I would not tell you what people actually do, I would instead tell you what people SHOULD do. I would teach:
- Don't drink beer and wine: instead drink orange juice and water?
- Don't eat chips and chocolate, eat fish and rice.
- Don't fry your chicken, instead bake your chicken or even poach it.
This is PRESCRIPTIVE TRAINING.
In the same way, our management training method is not descriptive training; meaning we do not believe it is much use describing what teams actually do.
Our preferred method of training is more PRESCRIPTIVE training, meaning we believe that it is much better to prescribe, (suggest to you) what managers SHOULD do, or need to do, in order to get the best performance from the team, and to prescribe; suggest, specific methods that you could use to improve your personal actions, to create an improved set of results.
We would like to prescribe a set of definite management skills
We believe that managers need to have a set of definite skills, which will allow them to communicate well with other members of the team, and to prioritise the tasks and to organise the people to do them. The managers need methods to make good decisions, and they need to develop, what we call mental toughness, which is the ability to remain strong, even when, (especially when) things are not going well.
We have developed a list of techniques and methods that will allow your team managers to improve their abilities as managers, in the following twenty areas of management activity.
Twenty areas of management training activity
Here are 20 areas of management training activity:
- How to set and achieve ambitious goals.
- How to communicate a message with greater clarity and accuracy.
- How to use humour to motivate the team and
- How to avoid the perils of the misuse of humour.
- How to distinguish useful criticism from useless complaining.
- How to plan ahead and act now to avoid problems later.
- How to prioritise tasks according to value and deadline pressure.
- How to delegate tasks to the right person for the right reasons.
- How to handle interruptions and get the maximum value from the interruption in the minimum time, without causing offense to the listener.
- How to develop mental toughness and come back stronger after a serious defeat or series of setbacks.
- How to develop more energy that will be sufficient to allow you to last the day without running out of steam.
- How to give constructive criticism to a colleague without that developing into an argument.
- How to master the art of describing events in objective, factual terms, not subjective, emotional terms.
- How to distinguish a reason for not doing something from an excuse for not doing something.
- How to know when you should compromise and give some ground, and when NOT to compromise, to stand firm and NOT give ground.
- How and when to give proper praise and appreciation for good effort or for right actions.
- How to inspire the team to give to you their best efforts, willingly.
- How to eliminate excessive worry.
- How to use the principles of continuous improvement and evolutionary progression to achieve your organisational and personal goals.
- How to build up the team spirit so that you get the best performance from each individual and from the team as a whole.
Can you see how these pragmatic and practical skills are not so much about theory, but are more about the practical application of new set of management skills and knowledge?
This is what I believe most management training should be, but most isn't.
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Definition: Prescriptive training
In business management training, prescriptive training is a training method that always tells learners what to do. It sets out clear steps, ties each step to a goal, and forms habits that can be used at work. If it lacks any of these, it stops being prescriptive training.
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- Tells learners what they should do, not just describe what happens
- Provides step-by-step actions that can be copied
- Links each action to a clear work result
- Builds repeatable habits for real tasks
Article Summary
A management training course works only when it is action based: it shows what to do, when to do it and why, so you leave ready to set clear goals, speak with care, stay mentally tough and guide your team to real results, not just ideas.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions that frequently get asked about this topic during our training sessions.
What does prescriptive training mean in a management training course?
How is descriptive training different from prescriptive training?
Why does a manager need mental toughness?
Which core skills should an effective leadership training course include?
How can I handle interruptions without offending people?
When should a manager compromise and when should they stand firm?
What simple method helps prioritise tasks under deadline pressure?
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The 2024 LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report finds that 87% of learning leaders in the UK list upskilling managers as their number-one priority for 2024. CIPD Learning at Work 2023 reports that 68% of UK organisations increased their spend on leadership and management training in the past 12 months.About the Author: Chris Farmer
Chris Farmer is the founder of the Corporate Coach Group and has many years' experience in training leaders and managers, in both the public and private sectors, to achieve their organisational goals, especially during tough economic times. He is also well aware of the disciplines and problems associated with running a business.
Over the years, Chris has designed and delivered thousands of training programmes and has coached and motivated many management teams, groups and individuals. His training programmes are both structured and clear, designed to help delegates organise their thinking and, wherever necessary, to improve their techniques and skills.
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