Advanced Management Motivation, Strategic Planning and Creative Problem Solving Programme

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
21 Dec 2025 Baku, Azerbaijan $ 4,950 Register

Advanced Management Motivation, Strategic Planning and Creative Problem Solving Programme

Introduction

In today’s world Staff are faced with increasingly complex responsibilities. In order to meet this challenge they must be continually sharpening their management skills. In this program you will learn how to:

  • Manage and motivate people more effectively
  • Create and harness the power of high performance teams
  • Understand and effectively utilize strategic planning techniques
  • Negotiate for positive results
  • Utilize the Baldrige performance criteria as a standard of excellence and benchmark for your organization

Objectives

    Participants attending this program will:

    • Consider methods for improving management performance
    • Gain insights into the successful implementation of teams
    • Study the techniques of strategic planning
    • Develop their skills in the area of negotiating
    • Analyze the Baldrige award criteria for excellence
    • Examine the application of management best practices

Training Methodology

Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the use of programme materials, exercises, video presentations and discussions on “real life” issues in their organizations.

Who Should Attend?

  • Those responsible for organizational improvement
  • Those concerned with achieving standards of excellence
  • Those interested in enhancing their management skills

Course Outline

Day 1

People Management

  • The importance of socio technical management
  • Techniques for effective communication
  • Motivating for results
  • Enhancing your coaching skills
  • Empowering employees for improved performance
  • Characteristics of a successful manager

Day 2

 Leading Teams

  • Obtaining the benefits of teamwork
  • Characteristics of ineffective teams
  • Characteristics of effective teams
  • Managing conflict in a productive manner
  • Understanding team member styles
  • Creating a virtual team

Day 3

Strategic Planning

  • Analyzing the strategic planning process
  • Achieving competitive advantage
  • Utilizing dynamic SWOT analysis
  • Focusing on vision and mission
  • The importance of contingency planning
  • Examples of strategic success and failure

Day 4

 Negotiating for Results

  • Gaining insight into the negotiating process
  • Characteristics of an effective negotiator
  • Developing negotiating strategies
  • Employing persuasive negotiation techniques
  • Achieving the benefits of effective negotiating
  • Negotiation exercises

Day 5

 Operational Excellence

  • The Malcolm Baldrige quality award-standard of excellence
  • Lessons from the best performing companies
  • Benchmarking your operation against the best
  • Creating employee commitment
  • Managing continuous improvement
  • Creating the high performance organization

Day 6

Promoting critical thinking & problem solving 

  • Fostering critical thinking
  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills
  • Problem Solving & Related Theories
  • Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process
  • Versions & Variations of CPS
  • Add Creativity to your Decision Process

Day 7

Decision making for improved leadership

  • Problem Solving & Decision Making: Consideration of Individual Differences
  • Decision Making & Related Theories
  • Guidelines for Leaders to Consider When Making Decisions
  • Steps to Wise Decision-Making
  • Common Decision-Making Mistakes
  • Ethical Decision Making

Day 8

Setting Priorities and Making Decisions in the Planning Process

  • Using planning to ensure task priorities are established
  • Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
  • Integrating the functions into a final work plan
  • Improving communications and listening skills
  • Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
  • Techniques for making good decisions

Day 9

Working with Your Team

  •  Identifying skills required to obtain the help of others
  •  The importance of group skills to achieve team success
  •  The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
  •  Empowering the team through delegation and decision making
  •  The importance of effective communication in team relations

Day 10

Developing Personal and Team Change Action Plans

  •  Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
  •  Identification of change processes and human change
  •  Techniques to set personal and team change goals
  •  Dealing with people who do not want change
  •  Developing an action plan for personal and team change

Accreditation

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