Management Skills
Thrive: Work smarter, not harder
Acquiring the soft skills to thrive in the workplace and move ahead is essential in today’s workforce. These workshops train participants in personal planning and efficiency: smarter ways of working by using adaptability, resourcefulness, and time management to gain efficiencies. Other workshops focus on working collaboratively and, for those in the APS, on how to smoothly navigate parliamentary processes, work effectively on policy and respond to senior decision-makers. Work smarter - not harder!!
Leading teams
Knowing the foundations of team building and how to build high-performing or multi-disciplinary teams are vital first steps in successfully leading a team. Part of this process is learning how to handle meetings effectively, how to coach and mentor others, and how to help them successfully build their own careers. Supervising others can take years of experience to master – but these programs can cut that time significantly, while highlighting effective and efficient management techniques designed to make your life easier.
Mastering communications
These workshops are designed to help you master every aspect of internal and external communications – from building stakeholder relationships and cross-cultural understanding, to writing for impact and persuasion, to pitching, presenting, and dealing with the media. Techniques for handling the more challenging aspects of communication are also included: these can include effectively managing bullying or harassment, dealing with complaints or dealing with challenging behaviours.
Strategic thinking
Becoming aware of your own patterns of thinking and of approaching your role and its complexities is perhaps one of the bigger challenges of management today. To be able to do this, you need to engage with emotional intelligence, (the ability to manage and regulate your own emotions), along with the critical and strategic thinking skills needed to survive and thrive in the modern world of work. Our workshops help you identify and understand the core competencies involved in mastering these attributes and in using them to research, evaluate, innovate, and lead.
The effective manager
Effective management has many aspects. It could mean mastering the more nuanced aspects of leading as an EL1 or EL2. It could involve managing performance, leading projects, or managing complex environments. It might include influencing, persuading or negotiation. Budgeting, contract management and customer service are also likely to be areas to sharpen up on and feel in control. These and a variety of other essential topics are included in our ‘managing effectively’ cluster of workshops.
Governance, equity, ethics and risk management
These workshops are designed to help you master every aspect of internal and external communications – from building stakeholder relationships and cross-cultural understanding, to writing for impact and persuasion, to pitching, presenting, and dealing with the media. Techniques for handling the more challenging aspects of communication are also included: these can include effectively managing bullying or harassment, dealing with complaints or dealing with challenging behaviours.
Self Assessment Scorecard
The scorecard below provides you the opportunity to provide a self assessment and provides you a score our of 60. If you score below 60 then our team at Interaction Consulting can assist you to up skill.
Thrive: Work smarter, not harder
Mastering communications
The effective manager
Leading teams
Strategic thinking
Governance, equity, ethics and risk management
Your score out of 60