Management Development Courses:
While Challenge specialise in Equality and Diversity our clients often ask us to develop bespoke programmes to ensure that diversity issues are integral to all aspects of the work carried out by staff. In response to this our portfolio includes the following proven Management Development modules:- Management Development Programmes
- Recruitment and Selection
- Managing Employee Relations
- Developing Your Leadership Skills
- Managing Change
- Team Development
Management Development Programmes
To ensure that you have Managers that understand and are prepared to deal with the expectations and responsibilities placed on them, Challenge is able to bring any combination of our Management Development courses together. This provides an on-going programme of development designed to meet your organisations' needs.In this way your Managers receive a consistent message which always takes account of the fact that they are diverse and have diverse staff groups who provide services for diverse customers.
Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or to book this course.
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Recruitment and Selection
Staff training on recruitment and selection has proved an essential part of many training plans, due to fast changing legislation and the rights and responsibilities that accompany them and a need for organisations to assure their staff that their recruitment process is fair to all.This two day course follows best practice in recruitment (or uses the companies own policy and procedure where appropriate). The course clarifies the roles and responsibilities of panel members and the procedure to follow, familiarises participants with the forms to use and how to use them, gives guidance and practice on shortlisting and devising questions, allows time for practice interviews and improves participants skills with regard to fair interviewing (including the legislation).
A one day version of this course is also available.
Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or a course outline for this course.
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Managing Employee Relations
This two day course enables Managers to deal confidently with staff performance. Using your organisations own policies and procedures (or best practice where policies are not in place), the course deals with management of:• Conduct
• Capability
• Absenteeism and
• Grievance
This includes effective interviewing and managing difficult relationships.
Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or to book this course.
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Developing Your Leadership Skills
This course is designed to allow Managers to improve their management skills by considering the difference between managers and leaders, increasing understanding of the appropriateness of those two positions in any situation and developing practical methods to achieve excellent leadership skills.Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or a programme outline for this course.
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Managing Change
It is now part of the role of every Managers to deal with changes in teams and organisations. Large and small changes can have a substantial effect on organisations and how (or if!) people work. It is essential for Managers to be able to understand and manage change.This course is ensures that your Managers understand the process of change, how important it is that change is actively managed and it's impact on people and teams. It also allows managers to explore a number of strategies for dealing with change and how to cope with team and individual resistance to change. It also considers the issues of diversity and culture when managing change.
Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or to book this course.
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Team Development
In order to develop a confident management style, managers need to understand how and why teams develop in the way that they do. This one day course increases Managers and potential Managers understanding of how teams develop, answers the question: what is a good team?, considers issues of diversity and culture in team development and gives participants the opportunity to develop approaches to effectively manage a developing team.Please contact the Challenge office on 020 7272 3400 or e-mail us at training@challcon.com for further information or to book this course.
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