A Highly Interactive Training Course On
Management Skills and Techniques
Practical Tools for Effective Planning, Decision Making, and Leadership Excellence
Course Introduction
The Management Skills and Techniques Training Course is designed to strengthen essential management capabilities that directly impact performance, productivity, and workplace effectiveness. This course focuses on developing strong self-management habits, effective time and task organization, clear prioritization, and the ability to lead and support teams with confidence. By applying these practical management techniques, participants can significantly improve how they plan work, manage responsibilities, and deliver consistent results across diverse business environments.
In today’s fast-paced and competitive workplace, organizations require managers and professionals who can think clearly, plan effectively, and make sound decisions under pressure. This Management Skills and Techniques Training Course introduces modern, practical approaches to planning, goal setting, communication, and decision making. The course places strong emphasis on real-world application, helping individuals and teams enhance efficiency, motivation, collaboration, and job satisfaction while achieving measurable performance improvements.
Key benefits of this training course include:
- Building strong time management and task planning skills for improved productivity
- Developing practical goal-setting techniques aligned with organizational priorities
- Enhancing decision-making, problem-solving, and creative thinking abilities
- Strengthening interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence for teamwork
- Improving self-discipline, focus, and stress management in the workplace
This comprehensive training course is structured into two modules that may be attended individually as 5-day courses or combined as an intensive 10-day learning experience.
Modules
This training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Effective Time, Task & Work Planning
MODULE II - Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Training Objectives
This Management Skills and Techniques Training Course aims to equip participants with practical, transferable skills that support consistent performance and effective leadership. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Develop structured approaches to planning work, setting realistic goals, and meeting deadlines without unnecessary pressure
- Apply proven decision-making frameworks to improve judgment, problem solving, and creative thinking
- Identify tasks that should be eliminated, prioritized, or delegated to maximize personal and team efficiency
- Analyze obstacles that reduce productivity and apply techniques to overcome performance challenges
- Strengthen interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to build trust, collaboration, and effective workplace relationships
These objectives are aligned with real operational challenges, ensuring participants can immediately apply learning outcomes within their roles.
Training Methodology
The Management Skills and Techniques Training Course uses a highly interactive and practical learning methodology that encourages active participation and skill application. Sessions are built around real workplace scenarios, structured discussions, guided exercises, and practical tools that reflect everyday management challenges. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their own work practices and identify opportunities for improvement throughout the course.
Learning is reinforced through case studies, group activities, individual planning exercises, and facilitated discussions. This approach ensures that concepts such as time management, goal setting, decision making, and communication are not only understood but practiced in a supportive learning environment. The methodology promotes long-term skill retention and enables participants to confidently transfer learning outcomes back to their workplace.
Who should Attend?
This Management Skills and Techniques Training Course is suitable for professionals seeking to enhance their effectiveness, efficiency, and leadership capability in dynamic work environments. It is particularly beneficial for individuals who want practical tools they can immediately apply to manage time, tasks, goals, and teams more effectively.
This training course will benefit:
- Professionals seeking practical management skills to improve planning, decision making, and goal achievement
- Line and functional managers responsible for coordinating people, tasks, and resources
- Team leaders and supervisors aiming to enhance productivity and team performance
- Mid-level and senior professionals working across private, public, and not-for-profit sectors
- Individuals who want to improve time management, prioritization, and work-life balance
- Professionals involved in decision making, problem solving, and workplace communication
Course Outline
- Evaluate your current productivity and pinpoint areas for enhancement
- Maintain activity logs, develop effective to-do lists, and implement action plans
- Efficiently manage your workflow, files, emails, and office systems
- Prioritise tasks and events using the urgent/important matrix
- Leverage your efforts to achieve greater outcomes from your work
- Explore multiple uses of mind mapping and create your first map
- Use Gantt charts to sequence tasks in project management
- Implement effective scheduling to optimise your use of time
- Set goals and handle multiple deadlines successfully
- Assess your delegation skills and enhance your effectiveness
- Manage interruptions and reduce distractions effectively
- Handle late, disorganised, or challenging individuals
- Balance conflicting priorities and adapt to last-minute changes
- Understand procrastination and adopt strategies to overcome it
- Conduct productive team meetings and facilitate group decisions
- Lead teams and enhance their overall effectiveness
- Develop key, effective communication skills
- Apply Emotional Intelligence to strengthen workplace relationships
- Master the art of clear and concise communication
- Enhance listening skills and provide constructive feedback
- Learn techniques to energise and motivate yourself
- Manage stress while maintaining a healthy work-life balance
- Improve concentration and sustain focus on tasks
- Strengthen self-discipline, break negative habits, and change behaviours
- Adopt the effective habits of a successful time and task manager
- Macro and Micro Perspectives: Clarifying your purpose, vision, mission, values, objectives, and associated tasks and activities.
- Leveraging the impact of visioning and visualization in defining and attaining goals.
- Utilizing the subconscious mind, beliefs, attitudes, and habits to strengthen goal-setting efforts.
- Choosing the right framework for you and your team: SMART Goals, HARD Goals, or BHAG Goals.
- Structuring organizational goals at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
- Management by Objectives – Evaluating its advantages and limitations.
- Exploring the diverse advantages of thorough planning.
- Applying mind-mapping techniques for both creative and analytical thinking in project planning.
- Implementing best practices and technologies for project coordination and communication.
- Comparing traditional planning approaches with modern workplace planning methods.
- Developing single-use, standing, contingency, and crisis plans.
- Planning across timelines: daily, short-term, midterm, and long-term strategies.
- Working intelligently by maximizing the value of your time.
- Overcoming procrastination and establishing productive daily routines.
- Techniques for prioritizing, organizing, and scheduling tasks effectively.
- Time management strategies to adopt and common time wasters to eliminate.
- Understanding the ten fundamental principles of successful time management.
- Exploring the most effective time management tools and technologies available.
- Mastering the art and science of sound decision-making.
- Understanding personality types and their decision-making tendencies – strengths and limitations.
- Identifying the key qualities of an effective decision maker.
- Recognizing common decision-making pitfalls and strategies to avoid them.
- Utilizing logical and intuitive tools for effective decisions.
- Applying creativity and problem-solving methods to enhance outcomes.
- Empowered delegation: balancing team development with task completion.
- Exploring leadership styles suited for the modern workplace.
- Guiding teams effectively through periods of change.
- Inspiring and influencing others through persuasive presentations.
- Enhancing workplace communication through emotional intelligence.
- Recap and action planning based on the insights gained throughout the course.
Providers and Associations
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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