Managing Professionals for Results

To manage professionals to best effect you need to develop a variety of managerial skills. This course will help you hone your leadership skills to enable you to point your team in the best direction, it will improve your ability to coach and get the best out of your team, and it will also help you position yourself within the team to act as a role model and to effectively balance your team’s workload.

Peer-enriched learning courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today’s changing market.

Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages learners to think about a topic, drawing on their own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps learners to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of their day-to-day work.

• Look at what management actually is and how understanding this can help you in your role.
• Help you to develop your leadership skills and use them to provide direction for your team.
• Help your team understand how to do the things they need to do to be successful; and how coaching your team effectively will benefit both them and you.
• Help you to balance your many roles as a manager and a member of the team, thereby enabling you to manage your team more effectively from within.

What is management?
• Defining management
• Types of management
• Managing different resources
• Structure and teams
• Team growth

Being a leader
• The ideal leader
• Leadership styles
• Goal translation
• Setting objectives
• Using ongoing performance criteria

Being a coach
• The ideal coach
• Motivation
• Adapting your style
• Individual feedback
• Identifying performance problems
• Group feedback

Being part of the team
• Delegating effectively
• Balancing workloads
• Being a role model
• Offering help
• Dealing with conflict
• Communicating effectively

This course is designed to appeal to people working in the accounting and finance industry at all levels, whether they manage others or wish to develop management skills as part of their personal and professional development.

Those in this industry who are new to management or preparing to take on a management role will find that this course provides invaluable guidance on how to approach the role of manager within a team.

More experienced accountants or finance managers will value the opportunity to spend time brushing up on their skills and refreshing their approach to management.