Course details

This programme is designed to support a combination of team leaders, supervisors and managers. It is of benefit to managers looking to enhance their skills further.

Course Content: 

Workshop 1: Role of the Manager 

  • Determine effective approaches you can use to select and recruit the right people for your organisation. 
  • Align expectations for inpidual roles to the defined business objectives. 
  • Identify motivating factors and determine ways of applying them to your organisation 
  • Set a clear and practical action plan for developing your skills as a great manager 

Workshop 2: Effective Communication 

  • Develop effective Active Listening Skills 
  • Determine approaches for providing effective feedback 
  • Resolve issues swiftly preventing a build-up of frustration and negativity 
  • Build on the Vision and Values of the company 

Workshop 3: Having the Difficult Conversation 

  • Develop an approach for managing the performance management conversation so that agreement on action is achieved 
  • Determine approaches to managing challenges and overcoming resistance 
  • Confidently approach the performance management meeting 

Workshop 4: Development of Self 

  • Understand their personality type: their strengths and their blind spots 
  • Determine approaches to managing their blind spots 
  • Recognise what motivates their team members 
  • Develop strategies for building strong relationships with their team members and their manager

Workshop 5: Producing a High Performance Team

  • Evaluate the performance of the team to determine behaviours to build team capability 

Workshop 6: Time Management 

  • Minimise distractions
  • Eliminate the “Urgency Addiction
  • Prioritise work

Learning Outcomes: 

The Emerging Leaders programme will provide managers with practical tools and approaches to managing people which can be easily applied to their workplace

Managers will be supported as they look to establish their style and approach to leading and developing their teams

Course Assessment: 

On completion of each workshop, each participant will be asked to complete an evaluation form asking about the impact of their learnings from the previous workshop.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Rural Food Skillnet

Skillnets actively supports and works with businesses in Ireland to address their current and future skills needs.

they believe that training and up-skilling are key elements in keeping Irish companies competitive.

they fund groups of companies in the same region/sector, and with similar training needs, through training networks that deliver subsidised training to Irish businesses. 

Employer needs are addressed through both the preservation and growth of jobs, focusing on skills to maintain businesses and protect jobs as theyll as the enhancement of new skills to create new jobs.

The needs of unemployed people are addressed through activation and conversion by focusing on integrated training with employees and dedicated conversion ctheirses and work placement in areas of employment potential.

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