Leading With Excellence: Planning, Organizing & Delegating

Leading With Excellence: Planning, Organizing & Delegating

OBJECTIVES

• Recognize internal and external influences on our daily planning
• Use basic planning process tools to plan work and project strategy
• Understand and develop skills necessary to complete work on time
• Learn how to organize work and projects to complete them successfully
• Understand how delegation can be used in planning and organizing
• Understand the characteristics of colleagues who do work in our teams
• Develop positive interpersonal techniques for better team relationships
• Develop the ability to make higher quality decisions as work is planned and organized 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The course is designed for anyone who desires to learn practical management techniques that will assist them in developing good planning techniques, using skills to organize themselves and others and developing effective delegation skills.  The course is appropriate for those who are responsible for managing any type of group or team or those who want to learn some skills to be able to better manage their work.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1

Creating an Attitude to Change How We Plan and Organize Work

• Introductions
• Course purpose, goals and objectives
• Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on planning and organization
• Identifying a standard of excellence in the organization, team and personal work
• Review of management processes and skill areas
• Using a planning process to set goals and get projects started

Day 2

Importance of Planning Management

• Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
• Identifying initial resource requirements
• Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities and deadlines
• Communication that responds to who, what where, when, how, why
• Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments

Day 3

Delegation, Personal Organization and Setting Priorities

• Using planning to ensure task priorities are established
• Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
• Using proper delegation skills to empower staff
• Improving communications and listening skills
• Planning for delegation responsibility and authority

Day 4

Planning Effectively 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 empowerment
• The importance of effective communication in team relations

Day 5

Developing Personal and Team Change 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