Key Takeaways

• Gain practical knowledge to help streamline the transition to management
• Increase your effectiveness in managing operations and people
• Learn how to build and manage more effective teams
• Acquire creative problem-solving and decision-making skills

Who Should Attend Basic Management

• New managers, typically with three years or less of management experience
• Managers who want to reinforce their understanding of fundamental management principles

In the Basic Management program, you will focus on the changes you will encounter in your transition from managee to manager. You will learn the successful practices used in managing both operational activities and individual employees. Throughout the two-and-a-half-day session, you will develop a broad understanding of current managerial techniques, with special emphasis on working with people as the key to managerial success.

This very popular two-and-a-half-day program is presented by Dr. Jack Simonetti, whose energetic style and highly interactive group activities result in total class involvement and enhanced learning. As a participant, you will receive a copy of Dr. Simonetti's book, Managing in Today's Changing Environment.

Key Functions of the Manager

• Changing from managee to manager
• Understanding the key pieces of the career survival and success puzzle
• Getting results
• Conceptualizing and implementing the key functions of managers

The Triangle of Managerial Success: Leadership, Motivation, and Communication

• Key management concepts, techniques, and principles
• What makes an effective manager/leader
• Analyzing employee behavior
• A manager's motivational tools
• How attitudes and values affect performance and behavior

Performance Evaluation

• Participants will complete a simulated performance evaluation which will help them determine their strengths and weaknesses when implementing an employee performance evaluation

The Importance of Working Together

• Developing and building successful teams
• The four stages of teamwork
• The key elements of team chemistry

Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Identifying and analyzing on-the-job problems
• Establishing objectives
• Generating and evaluating alternatives
• Determining action steps and approaches needed to implement them

Legal Issues in Managing People

• Hiring
• Discipline
• Performance evaluation
• Day-to-day problems

The program fee includes tuition, instructional materials, hotel accommodations, continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks each day, and selected dinners. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy