How do I excel at managing my people?

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How do I excel at managing my people?

24th April 2019
Workshop
Presented by John Berry & Sue Berry

Less than 20% of all managers in the UK are trained to do the job. And yet people-management is non-obvious. It’s to be learned.

This workshop comes at the end of a six-session series of manager development webinars. It aims to review all the main points raised in the webinars, adding meaning and explaining the management science further.

You will be able to identify from this workshop, areas where you are already proficient and others where you need further development and support.

Refer to our overview description of our Level 7 Manager Development Programme for full information.

Topics for discussion

We will introduce systems dynamics as a business tool for use in HR and OD. We will discuss the ideas of causality in managing people and how it is that many variables interrupt the simple idea that one thing causes another, thereby creating complexity.

In addition, we will review the past webinars covering the following topics:

  • Contracts of employment
  • Psychological contract
  • Commitment
  • Innovation (climate)
  • Engagement
  • Culture change
  • Reward
  • Objective setting and management
  • Motivation
  • Leadership

We will be soliciting questions from webinar attendees on those topics.

Our aim is to have delegates leave with a good understanding of the issues and the ability to use the tools discussed.

NOTE: You can participate online instead of attending in person. Please book up below and then send an email to say you want to join the workshop online.

Who’s this workshop aimed at?

Managers who want to excel in managing their people.

What will you learn?

Valid, tangible and immediately applicable information and methods to enable you to excel in managing your people.

What’s the workshop style?

A group of like-minded managers sharing the problem but encouraged and enabled by some short presentations based on webinar material and issues from that material.

Programme

  • 09:30 - Arrive, coffee & Danish pastries
  • 10:00 - Presentations and round-table discussions
  • 12:00 - Depart

In this simultaneous online and face-to-face meeting, we’ll review the complete activity of management and emphasise the use of two key models for day to day manager use.

We'll feature use of systems dynamics for pan-organisational modelling to understand the big picture in having managers excel.

By the close, you’ll understand the changes that you might make to your own management approaches as you aim to cause change in employee action.

Meeting Discussion Talking Sharing Ideas

Location

The Birch Hotel. Lewes Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 7SF

Easy access from London Victoria and London Bridge, then a short taxi ride from the station.

Easy access by road within East and West Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Free onsite car parking.

NOTE: You can participate online instead of attending in person. Please book up below and then send an email to say you want to join the workshop online.

About the Presenters

John Berry

John is an alumnus of Loughborough University of Technology, the Open University Business School and Birkbeck, University of London, in engineering, management and organisational psychology. He has run technology and engineering companies and led R&D activities in SMEs and multi-nationals for over 30 years. He has been instrumental in driving public and corporate policy across technology and engineering for firms and governments. In a global career, John has led teams in 32 countries. He is a Chartered Manager and a Chartered Engineer.

Sue Berry

Over the past 30 years Sue has led the human resource function in several firms, heading up and driving organisational improvement and change across chemicals, aerospace, education and charities sectors. She has been instrumental in shaping relationships between people and organisations in pursuit of growth and prosperity for all. Sue is an alumna of Newcastle University, De Montfort University and the Open University in education, human resource management and psychology & economics. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.

General FAQs

What are my transportation options for getting to and from the event?

By car the hotel is about five miles from Burgess Hill, 14 miles from Brighton and 16 miles from Gatwick Airport.
There are two direct trains an hour from London Victoria and four direct trains an hour from London Bridge stations. The journey time is about 45 minutes. There are taxis available outside Haywards Heath Railway station. The hotel is about 2 miles away from the station.

Do I need to have attended the webinars to come on the workshop?

No you don't. The systems dynamics tool we'll introduce has not been covered in the webinars. The workshop takes a high level view of the topics covered in the webinars, using some webinars questions to faciliate dicussions.

Our terms

The programme comprising webinars and workshops is provided COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE.

We are providing this programme in order to show managers our knowledge and understanding as consultants - it is therefore a form of marketing for us.

Our agreement to provide the programme is with the manager's organisation. In return for delivery of the programme, the manager's organisation agrees to us sending the manager informational emails from time to time on management topics. We will ask the manager to sign up, on the organisation's behalf, to receive those emails before commencing the programme. Those emails contain information on management techniques, skills and knowledge - they are not sales emails. The manager can unsubscribe from the email list at any time.

We reserve the right to refuse to deliver the programme to anyone using a Gmail or other personal or generic email address or anyone who, on investigation, is not a manager in a bona fide organisation. We will also refuse to provide the programme to anyone from an organisation that, on investigation, appears to be in competition with TimelessTime.

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