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Successfully Managing Your Employees: Stepping In to Step Up Performance

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Management is both an art and a science. Bearing this in mind, this seminar will expose you to specific scenarios and management practices and allow you to examine concrete solutions that are:

Manager-specific
Suited to a given situation
Targeted to obtain the desired outcomes.

You will be encouraged to explore your own management style and subjectivity, to leverage your leadership potential and to cultivate your management talents. Drawing inspiration from your fellow participants’ experiences and points of view, you will determine which approaches are the best fit for your objectives and your organizational culture in order to boost the engagement of your staff members and get your business one step closer to its ultimate purpose.

Presentation

GOALS

Unleash your leadership potential.
Broaden your management perspective to make it more personal and conducive to success.
Structure your approach to analyzing management situations.
Adapt your leadership style to each management situation.
Develop your people management skills (authority, influence, power, communication and leadership).
Be equipped to meet the challenges inherent in managing employees (resistance and hostility, conflict, team dynamics, individual training and development).

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Professionals working in a supervisory capacity
Managers

This program is for you if:

Employee management is part of your job.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Strong focus on reflection, self-training and practice.
Opportunity to take a step back and rediscover what is truly important, and explore strengths and weaknesses of your management style and leadership potential.
Guaranteed improvement in your personal management practices, with the chance to test what you have learned in real-world management scenarios.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion from Executive Education HEC Montréal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Participants will receive a complimentary copy of the book Habiletés de direction.

Program

Learn by doing

How to see, watch and listen

Management is a practice

Management: Exercising judgment
Learning through practice
Subjectivity and objectivity
Personal strengths and weaknesses that influence your people management skills
Watch what you’re doing, listen to what you’re saying, and foresee the consequences
Assuming leadership responsibility

Employee management

Managing an employee in a situation of direct dissent
Managing an employee in a situation of indirect dissent
Gain a clear vision of what you do and what others do
Managing and learning from conflict

Team leadership

Individual and team needs, job requirements

Political savvy

Identify power sources and dynamics
Shrewd use of “wiggle room”
Smart career advancement strategies

Keywords

Ambition, emotional intelligence, authority, conflict, power, assertiveness, etc.

TRAINING APPROACH

Management case studies and exercises focusing on concrete situations
Personal reflection
Group discussions
Preparatory reading
Not intended as one-size-fits-all set of “how-tos”

Instructors

Monique Benoit

M. Sc., MBA

Lecturer HEC Montreal

Josée Lortie

PhD (Administration)

Visiting Professor, HEC Montréal

In-Person

Successfully Managing Your Employees: Stepping In to Step Up Performance

Management is both an art and a science. Bearing this in mind, this seminar will expose you to specific scenarios and management practices and allow you to examine concrete solutions that are:

Manager-specific
Suited to a given situation
Targeted to obtain the desired outcomes.

Presentation

Program

Instructors

GOALS

Unleash your leadership potential.
Broaden your management perspective to make it more personal and conducive to success.
Structure your approach to analyzing management situations.
Adapt your leadership style to each management situation.
Develop your people management skills (authority, influence, power, communication and leadership).
Be equipped to meet the challenges inherent in managing employees (resistance and hostility, conflict, team dynamics, individual training and development).

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Professionals working in a supervisory capacity
Managers

This program is for you if:

Employee management is part of your job.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Strong focus on reflection, self-training and practice.
Opportunity to take a step back and rediscover what is truly important, and explore strengths and weaknesses of your management style and leadership potential.
Guaranteed improvement in your personal management practices, with the chance to test what you have learned in real-world management scenarios.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion from Executive Education HEC Montréal.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Participants will receive a complimentary copy of the book Habiletés de direction.

Learn by doing

How to see, watch and listen

Management is a practice

Management: Exercising judgment
Learning through practice
Subjectivity and objectivity
Personal strengths and weaknesses that influence your people management skills
Watch what you’re doing, listen to what you’re saying, and foresee the consequences
Assuming leadership responsibility

Employee management

Managing an employee in a situation of direct dissent
Managing an employee in a situation of indirect dissent
Gain a clear vision of what you do and what others do
Managing and learning from conflict

Team leadership

Individual and team needs, job requirements

Political savvy

Identify power sources and dynamics
Shrewd use of “wiggle room”
Smart career advancement strategies

Keywords

Ambition, emotional intelligence, authority, conflict, power, assertiveness, etc.

TRAINING APPROACH

Management case studies and exercises focusing on concrete situations
Personal reflection
Group discussions
Preparatory reading
Not intended as one-size-fits-all set of “how-tos”

Monique Benoit

M. Sc., MBA

Lecturer HEC Montreal

Josée Lortie

PhD (Administration)

Visiting Professor, HEC Montréal

TESTIMONIAL(S)

"The management skills course is built on solid foundations and has given me some outstanding tools I can use every day to do my job."

- Charles Beauchemin, Team Leader, Online Services, Ubisoft

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- Sylvain Baril, Manager, Regional Business - Established Products AstraZeneca Canada Inc.