Foundations of Management
Managers are key to the success of any organization. This group of topics is ideal for new and experienced managers alike. Drawing from their diverse backgrounds, managers will leverage their collective experience and creativity to reframe familiar management issues.
These topics will help managers:
- Be aware which managerial competencies are needed to do their work and focus on the ones that need strengthening.
- Foster a more thoughtful, reflective, approach to managerial challenges.
- Improve their ability to enable change.
Topics
- Accountability: It's a Tricky World
- Analyzing Employee Performance
- Career Anchors
- Control Through Decision Making
- Dealing with Delegation
- Dealing with the Pressures of Managing
- Decision Making: It's Not What You Think
- Developing Our Organization as a Community
- Driving Change as a Middle Manager
- Five Ideas about Teamwork
- Gender Inclusive Leadership
- I.T. Does Have an Off Button
- Influencing Others: Leading Through Trust
- Introducing Strategy through Robin Hood
- Management Competency Raising
- Management Styles: Art, Craft, Science
- Managing on the Edges
- Managing on the Planes of Information, People, and Action
- Managing on Tightropes: The Inescapable Conundrums of Managing
- Managing Time and Energy
- Managing to Lead
- Negotiating Styles
- Opening up the Moral Senses
- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Leadership
- Practical Tips for Leading Meetings that Matter
- Reflection
- Silos and Slabs in Organizations
- Simply Managing: From Reflection to Action
- The Play of Analysis
- The Rewards of Recognition
- Two Models of Change
- Understanding Organizations
- Women Rising: Breaking the Habits That Hold You Back
