Effective People Management Workshop (A Practical Workshop for Line Managers)

Program Overview:

Managing people at work has assumed a vital strategic role in recent years as organizations attempt to compete through people. Line managers increasingly having to take on responsibilities for such as recruitment, discipline, performance management, pay, training and employees’ relations all these require people management skills. This workshop is designed to assist the line managers and supervisors to fill in any gap in their knowledge, that would enable them to deal more confidently and efficiently with day-to-day people issues and questions that may arise.

For whom:

All Line Managers, Supervisors and other managers who coordinate people’s effort for organizational productivity.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to;

• manage people to gain commitment and improve their morale;
• identify ways to improve employees’ performance
• develop the capabilities of individuals and teams,
• acquire people management skills,
• develop and manage high performance team and
• manage and resolve conflict for a win-win situation.

Course outline:

Day 1: The Role, Responsibilities and Skills for Modern Managers

=>        Managing People:   The Basic Skills

            Listening, walking the talk, mentoring and coaching,  

Motivation and communication, Conflict resolution

            Self-awareness and intuition   

=>        Leadership Role,

            Team building, communicating and organizing

=>        Communication is at the heart of people management

            Your new role as “bringer of good and bad news”

=>        Motivating your staff/Team for increased Productivity

Day 2:             Performance Management

            -           Managing expectations

            -           Conducting Performance and Development Review

            -           Managing under-performance

            -           Managing Team Performance.

            - Tips for boosting the overall performance of

   your team

=>        Developing People

            -           Identifying Learning Needs

            -           On / Off the Job Training

            -           Effective Delegation

=>        Developing negotiating skills

            -           Applying your listening skills

            -           Developing a win-win philosophy

Day 3:             Managing conflict for positive outcomes

            –          handling difficult people and behavior

            -Understanding the how, when, where and  why of conflict

            - Assessing your own behavior in conflict situations

            - Recognizing constructive and destructive conflict

=>       Managing the Employment Relationship.

            -           Managing Health and Safety

            -           Handling Disciplinary Interviews / Actions

            -           Managing Attendance

=>        Problem Solving and Decision-Making Techniques.

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.

ABIODUN ODEYEMI - M.Sc. (Managerial Psychology), MCIPS, (London) AMNIM, QMS Auditor. An experienced Management Practitioner with over 25 years of experience spanning the manufacturing, engineering and service sectors of the economy.  Mr Odeyemi is a specialist in Managerial Psychology (Leadership, General Management, Negotiation, Communication and Human Relations) Business/Process Development, Employee's Motivation, Productivity Improvement, Performance Management, Project Management (Monitoring and Evaluation), Supply Chain Management, QMS Certification, and Attitudinal Change. Mr Odeyemi was as the Asst. General Manager, Supply Chain, Pivot Engineering Nig. Ltd before venturing into consultancy. He will join others to share their experiences on this program.

Leke Oshiyemi – BA, M.Sc., Public Admin. (HR) & Cert. Advanced Strategic HR Mgt. USA. An astute Human Resource Professional of about two decades in the trenches, who has held Senior HR Leadership roles with Multinational and conglomerate companies, FMCG, HR-Consulting, Private Equity & Financial Services in Nigeria. Mr. Oshiyemi has worked as Human Resources Business Partner and Career Development Manager with Nigerian Breweries Plc, Strategic HR Business Partner (HRBP) with Honeywell Flour Mills PLC, and head Human Resources for Verod Group where he was responsible for generating strategic HR initiatives to help develop the group recruitment drive, employee engagement and implement talent and reward management initiatives. He will join other HR professionals to share experiences on this program.