
A Highly Interactive Training Course On
Management Skills and Techniques
Effective Goal Setting, Planning & Task Management
Course Introduction
This Management Skills and Techniques training course will revolutionize your approach to self-management, time organization, task prioritization, and leadership of teams. By honing these skills, individuals and teams will become more efficient and motivated, resulting in enhanced outputs and productivity across various business sectors.
In today's competitive landscape, businesses and organizations must adopt more productive and innovative methods for planning, achieving results, and optimizing communication and decision-making processes. This Management Skills and Techniques training course emphasizes practical methodologies and cutting-edge personal development strategies designed to elevate both individual and team performance to new heights of achievement and job satisfaction.
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day training courses.
Module 1 - Effective Time, Task & Work Planning
Module 2 - Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making
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
By attending this COPEX training course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand and develop the skills necessary to plan, set smart goals and reach deadlines without stress
- Utilise a variety of methods to improve decision making, problem solving and creative thinking
- Identify tasks that can be eliminated, prioritised, or delegated and become a master time and task manager
- Analyse situations that hinder performance and identify techniques to overcome them
- Develop the Interpersonal and emotional intelligence to create better team work and relationships
Who should Attend?
This COPEX training course is suitable to wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:
- Anyone who desires to learn practical management techniques that will assist them in making good decisions, setting personal and team goals and develop personal and team plans
- Line and functional Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors in organisations of all sizes
- Intermediate and advanced level Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors within all sectors, private and public, profit and not-for-profit
- Professionals who needs to become more effective and efficient in time management and planning
Course Outline
- Assess your productivity and identify areas for improvement
- Activity logs, effective to-do lists and action programs
- Managing your workflow, files, emails and office effectively
- Prioritising events using the urgent/important matrix
- Using leverage to get a greater return from your effort
- Multiple applications for Mind mapping, and creating your first one
- Utilising Gantt charts for sequencing events in project work
- Effective scheduling – planning to make the best use of your time
- Goal setting and meeting multiple deadlines
- Assessing your delegating skills and improving effectiveness
- Managing interruptions and minimizing distractions
- Dealing with late, disorganized or difficult people
- Managing conflicting priorities and last-minute changes
- Understand procrastination and develop strategies to overcome it
- Running productive team meetings and making group decisions
- Leading teams and improving their effectiveness
- Develop vital, effective communication skills
- Applying Emotional Intelligence to improve relationships
- The art of concise clear conversations
- Listening and giving feedback
- How to energise and motivate yourself
- Managing your stress and achieving work-life balance
- Improving your concentration and focus
- Increasing self-discipline, breaking bad habits and negative behaviours
- The effective habits of a good time task manager
- Macro and Micro Thinking: Getting clear about your purpose, vision, mission, values, goals and tasks and activities
- The power of visioning and visualisation in setting and achieving goals
- Harnessing the power of the subconscious mind, beliefs, attitudes and habits in goal setting
- SMART Goals, HARD Goals or BHAG Goals, which one is right for you and your team
- Strategic, Tactical and Operational Goal Setting in the Organisation
- Management by Objectives – The pros and cons
- The many benefits of planning
- Using mind-mapping for creative and logical thinking and project planning
- Best practices and technologies for project planning and communication
- Traditional planning vs new workplace planning
- Single use plans, standing plans, contingency and crisis plans
- Daily, short-term, midterm and long-term planning
- Working smarter rather than harder through leveraging your time
- Curing ‘last-minute-itis’ and creating good daily work habits
- Prioritising, organizing and scheduling your work
- Time Management secrets to adopt and time wasters to avoid
- The 10 natural laws of successful time management
- Best time management tools and technologies available
- The art and science of good decisions
- Personality types and how they decide – Strengths and Weaknesses
- Best traits of an effective decision maker
- Decision making pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Logical and intuitive decision-making tools
- Creativity and problem-solving tools
- Empowered delegation – Balancing task and team
- Leadership styles for the new work place
- Leading a team through times of change
- Inspiring others – The art of persuasive presentations
- Communication and emotional intelligence at work
- Summary and action planning from the week’s course
Providers and Associations



Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.
Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.
Once officially registered, we can assist by providing the corporate rates provided by the hotel where the training course will be conducted. Early confirmation will enable us to secure the room at reduced rates
Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.
Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.

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