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Managing Through Others - Seven Program Features
MTO includes a number of design features that ensure the skills your managers learn have a high probability of being adopted as new permanent behavior back at wor
- Resource Manual
Participants receive a 190-page resource manual with all of the important content: learning points, short text pieces, cases, etc. Pre-reading is assigned to attendees in advance of each session, instead of presenting it in lecture format.
This frees up more time in seminar sessions for skill demonstration and practice, small group discussion, and addressing the specific learning needs of the attendees. Also, Participants leave with a practical, comprehensive reference resource for future use.
Benefit:
Effective leadership behavior is more familiar when they return to the job
Participants are able to respond appropriately to most people-related situations that arise.
- Participants/Manager Meetings
Short, structured meetings between participants and their immediate managers are held before and after each session. A simple learning objectives sheet with guidelines helps the managers provide on-going support for skill application on the job.
The immediate managers of participants are involved in their learning process. This increases the commitment of participants to their specific learning objectives.
Benefit:
Those skills most critical to job success are learned and applied for maximum results (and payback on your training investment).
- Modular Design
The program is delivered in modules separated by a period of time spent back at work (e.g. 2 days + 2 days + 2 days). Each module begins by checking in with how people did applying skills from the previous session. In between, the program leader is available for phone or e-mail consultation.
Allows participants to experiment with new skills and return to the next session for advice on correcting or refining their approach, if required.
Benefit:
Skills become more refined and yield greater results on the job.
Your people are not away from work for a long period.
- Style Instruments
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Situational Leadership® instruments provide common ways to talk about management style. Different possible styles are then applied to key functions such as planning, objective-setting, visioning, confronting poor performance, and motivating.
Participating managers can analyze any interpersonal situation at work and "flex" their response appropriately. Also, they now have a common terminology when advising one another on a leadership challenge, if required.
Benefit:
Your managers deal with each employee uniquely to generate maximum results from every working relationship.
- Experiential Learning Events
The program's curriculum includes two high-energy, memorable experiential learning events, Gold of the Desert Kings® and the Leadership Journey.
Attendees experiment with new skills and approaches during simulations of real challenges that confront today's managers
Benefit:
With vivid memories of what worked in the simulations, the managers readily apply excellent management practices back at work—for greater results.
- Customization
Presentations can incorporate your particular systems, forms, processes, and policies (e.g. performance reviews & ratings, progressive discipline guidelines, critical success measures, mission & values, etc.)
Participants learn and practice new skills using formats, processes, policy and terminology that are already familiar to them.
Benefit:
Reinforces your current forms and processes. Your people use them more effectively
- Link to Other Workshops
Managing Through Others links smoothly with Fulcrum's other programs that address specific topics important to leader/managers:
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