Management Training Principles

You should have an understanding of the direction of the organisation. This allows you to make plans and organise your resources, both of people and materials and to plan ahead in a strategic manner.

Your development opportunity
Although you already have a clear view of the organisational vision and plans you could act now to further refine the big picture into specific projects. Begin to assign deadlines to the major steps and think about who should form the project teams that will achieve them.

You may have clear personal standards: now your challenge is to live up to them. It is difficult to be consistent in a changing world. "You are the captain of your soul and the master of your fate" to the degree to which you can control your own performance under all conditions. Develop more self-control and you will gain more respect, and a greater level of personal confidence. Begin to hold others to higher standards so that the quality, quantity and spirit of your team are of the same high standards you expect from yourself.

You may be goal focused, which allows you to concentrate and make good progress. The mental habit of goal focus is the precondition of successful leadership and so you would do well to play to this strength.

You have goal focus, which should now be put to best use in two ways:
1. Become more ambitious in selecting your goal. Think bigger. How could you do twice as much in half the time and effort?
2. Consider how you can communicate your goal to others who need to know. You probably do not work alone. Some people need to know your goal. Make sure you inform those people whose cooperative help you will need.

You know that goals should be well organised to fit the SMART profile: Specific, Measured, Achievable, Realistic, and with a definite Time deadline.

Even though many people know the SMART target model, few use it enough to their benefit, as they should. So you can now harness the potential of goals by sitting down today and answering this question: What five specific things do I want to achieve within the next 365 days?
Motivate other people in your team by means of training in goal setting using the SMART model. Have them tell you what five things they want to achieve in the next year. Help them to build practical written plans.

Chris is the leader of The Corporate Coach Group.

The Corporate Coach Group is a training company who provide management training opportunities:

"The presentation of a system that describes successful action to anyone in a management/leadership role, together with the complementary skills necessary to put the theory into practice."

We draw the "system" from five sources:

1. Philosophy.
2. Psychology.
3. Management theory.
4. Real- life experiences of previous delegates
5. Observations from business we work with.

They provide professional personal development programmes: from goal setting training, communication skills training and conflict management training, to time management training, Accelerated Learning and leadership training.