Management Development Training

Every day we give HR advice to managers, business owners and those who have just found themselves wearing the company HR hat. By listening to your queries, sharing solutions and chatting through likely scenarios we gain a huge insight into common workplace issues and the areas which are a struggle, and often a worry, to deal with.

We decided to develop a Management Development Programme to help you and your managers successfully negotiate the HR pitfalls, and to give you confidence that you and your company are working in a legal and best practice framework.

Our Programme is designed to give a fully comprehensive and highly interactive mix of training and coaching for your managers, combining practical workshops in small groups, with 1-2-1 coaching calls between each module to ensure learning is implemented and sustained in the workplace.

Delivered in half day workshops, our flexible programme can be tailored to your workplace and delivered onsite over a time period that suits.  Alternatively, join delegates from other companies at a local Cambridge venue, with dates throughout the year.  The programme starts with:

Programme Content

Module 1 – All about you

This introductory module is a unique and insightful element of the Management Development Programme.  It is designed to give each participant a good understanding of their own personality type, how they like to communicate and make decisions and to use this knowledge to adapt their style to influence and motivate others.  This understanding will come through completing psychometric and work-based assessments, using the Myers Briggs Model (MBTI).

The best managers of people are those who firstly understand themselves well enough to know how to work to their strengths, accept their weaknesses and know how to bring out the best in different people to ensure the maximum success of a team.  This module will provide that insight as well as a good understanding of the qualities an effective manager and leader has.

This introductory module provides an excellent foundation for the other modules in the Management Development Programme:

• Recruitment and Selection
• Resolving problems – disciplinaries and grievances
• Managing performance – appraisal reviews and giving feedback
• Managing absence, stress and mental health
• Dignity at work – diversity and inclusion
• Motivating, delegation and difficult conversations
• Flexible and hybrid working

Course Participants will benefit from:

Increased confidence

The programme covers the key principles of people management with up-to-date guidance on best practice to equip managers with the knowledge, tools and skills to manage their teams and to deal with day-to-day HR issues effectively.

Opportunity to apply the learning

The programme is delivered in half day workshops with 1:1 coaching support between each module.  This allows valuable time for managers to reflect and discuss any issues that arise and ensures they can apply the learning to their job roles.

Interactive programme

Our training style is participative and responsive to the needs of the participants. We use a range of styles, including case studies, group discussions and questionnaires – no ‘death-by-PowerPoint’ with us!

Supportive & confidential learning environment

Participants will receive all training materials to support their learning between modules and for future reference.

Your business will benefit from:

• Increase in managerial confidence and capability
• Increase in staff performance
• Improved employee engagement & satisfaction levels – amongst both managers who attend and their staff
• Decrease in staff turnover
• Reduced absenteeism
• Reduced conflict in the workplace

Trainer & Mentor – Caroline White

A chartered member of the CIPD, Caroline has over twenty years HR experience gained in organisations across a range of industries.  Having spent the majority of her career as a consultant to senior management and business owners, Caroline’s emphasis is on providing practical and achievable commercial solutions.  With a passion for training and development, Caroline’s strength comes through her unique ability to use her HR and business experience to understand the knowledge and skills managers need to increase their performance and productivity.  She delivers workshops and provides coaching and mentoring to managers in a way that motivates them to use new skills and techniques.

About Us

The HR Dept Cambridgeshire & North Herts provides employment law and human resources support and services to small & medium sized businesses throughout the region.  We can help with everything to do with employing people.  We pride ourselves in delivering excellence throughout all aspect of our service thanks to our highly professional, personal and pragmatic approach.

Cost

Fixed course fees: £1,500 + VAT per delegate

This includes an initial Learning Objectives Questionnaire, psychometric and work-based assessments, 6 half day workshops including course refreshments, all course materials, up to 6 hours’ 1-2-1 coaching to ensure each manager can transfer the knowledge and skills back into the workplace to ultimately improve business performance.

Flexible onsite courses: Maximum £1,250 + VAT per delegate (minimum 4 people).

What participants say about the course:

“The informality, the discussion with the other people on the course, the way answers are teased out of us and how we are made to think about issues we often don’t realise we are even facing. From that point of view, get yourself along. It’s an excellent course.  We found an enormous benefit from being on the course.”

Martin Harris, Operations Director at Balsham Buildings Ltd

“I thought it was good to get the leadership team together and go through the programme together. We haven’t had a huge amount of time together in sessions like that and I believe it has helped us to understand each other more. All content was really useful and the occasional task that we had to carry out kept the level of engagement from us all.”

Michael Firek, Living Sport

“I have found the course very helpful, and it will definitely improve my management skills going forward.”

Chris Cook, Kloeber UK Ltd

Contact us now to find out more

Tel: 0345 078 8454 www.hrdept.co.uk

Unit 1, Cambridge Road, Milton, Cambridge CB24 6AZ

Caroline.white@hrdept.co.uk