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Training Courses and Workshops
Some elements of the Horizon Way are also available as stand alone training courses which have been designed to meet specific learning needs of busy managers of people in the workplace.
Most of the workshops range from two hour modules to three days depending on the subject matter.
In addition, we have a highly regarded Management Development Program where we work with clients to combine a number of modules over a period of months for a selected group of participants.
Features of our workshops include:
- Each comes with a comprehensive participant workbook;
- Some are supported with a video segment;
- Some have specially selected experiential activities designed to reinforce learning;
- Many have templates and checklists in a format for later individual and/or company-wide use;
- All are based on good management practice and make reference to acknowledged management theory where appropriate to enhance the learning outcomes;
- All are designed to be interactive and take into account a range of learning styles;
- All help participants design their own implementation plans to take the learning back to the workplace.
- All are facilitated by our experienced consultants who work with the client to ensure learning outcomes are clear at the outset and they then use their own management and training experience to relate with participants and deliver exceptional results.
Workshops currently available include:
- Strategic Planning
- Identifying Core Competencies
- Writing Job Descriptions
- Job Evaluation
- Effective Recruitment
- Effective Performance Management (Managers)
- Effective Performance Management (Employees)
- Succession Planning
- Management Development Program
- Role of the Manager
- Working in Teams
- Time Management
- Workplace Communications
- Effective Meetings
- Job Instruction
- Motivation
- Delegation
- Problem Solving
- Discipline and Grievance Handling Using
- Company Policies and Procedures
Please scroll down for a brief outline of the key objectives of each module.
Strategic Planning � Where do we want to go?
- To enable participants to develop a draft vision, objectives, strategies and plans for an organisation � either at whole organisation or division/business unit level
- To provide a format for the outputs so they can be used to manage implementation
Identifying Core Competencies � How should we behave?
- To produce a list of key success competencies with preliminary definitions which are specific to the organisation � either at whole organisation or division/business unit level
- To help participants understand what behaviours and attributes have made the organisation successful in the past, which are currently significant, which they need to retain and any new competencies they may need to target to help them achieve their future business plans
- To give an overview of how identifying and managing such success competencies can make a difference to the business
Writing Job Descriptions � Employees knowing the right things to deliver
- To give participants an understanding of the purpose and value of effective job descriptions which focus on measured end results rather than actions
- To demonstrate the link between individual performance and satisfaction and organisation success � people doing the right things
- To provide a process for writing effective job descriptions, an opportunity to practice the necessary skills, to produce a draft JD in the workshop and a methodology for writing effective JDs back in the workplace
Job Evaluation � Worth of jobs
- To give key managers an understanding of the basic principles of a salary system and to conduct a Job Evaluation exercise within the system
- To rank the jobs in the organisation and grade them into groups of similar value
- To provide a process for maintaining the system and evaluating new jobs
Effective Recruitment � Finding the right people
- To consider some of the myths and dangers of recruiting practices and beliefs
- To provide a process for effective recruitment
- To help line managers identify and practice the techniques needed to use this process effectively and to understand their responsibilities
- To increase the chances of making good hiring decisions
Effective Performance Management (Managers) � Right people doing the right things
- To give line managers an understanding of the purpose and value of effective performance management
- To help line managers identify and understand their responsibilities within the process
- To develop skills in goal setting, evaluating and managing progress against the goals
- To consider the impact of every employee being engaged, continuously developing, and delivering, high quality results
Effective Performance Management (Employees) � Performance and Satisfaction
- To give participants � employees � an understanding of the purpose and value of the performance management and development process and their responsibilities within this process
- To provide guidelines to help them in their own preparation and to gain the maximum benefits form this process
- To help participants understand where they fit in the big picture and what their contribution can be
Succession Planning � How to pass the baton
- To give senior managers an understanding of the purpose and value of systematic succession planning
- To provide a process for succession planning and use this to develop a preliminary plan for the organisation or nominated part of the business
- To demonstrate the importance of identifying responsibilities for implementing individual action plans and a process for doing this
- To provide methodology and templates for regular update and maintenance of the process