Management Training at Holmescales

Greg Duckworth designs and delivers our management training programmes. As well as having 15 years of experience in managing teams, Greg recently developed an industry leading training scheme for a large, independent retailer and has diplomas in senior leadership management and Coaching and mentoring from the institute of leadership management.

Holmescales management training is designed to give relevant, dynamic skills to people. Using the latest coaching and development techniques, tangible results in the following areas can be achieved :

• Setting team objectives
• Effective time management (including delegation)
• Motivation
• Problem solving
• Managing change
• Leadership
• Interpersonal skills (inc dealing with conflict and difficult situations)
• Leading effective meetings
• Developing and managing teams
• Performance management
• Succession planning
• Capacity management
• Questioning, listening and non-verbal communication

Holmescales training and development will assess, analyse and act upon real work-based issues that are suggested, discussed and agreed upon by the client and the trainer/coach.

The first step will be to understand the basic working principles of the client and for the client (you) to understand us. This can be achieved through a 2-3 hour meeting followed by an e-mail exchange detailing the summary points of the meeting so that we have a basic understanding of each other. A good starting point is to look at aims and philosophies/ mission statements.

The next step is to assess and analyse the current situation. This is a crucial part of the process being the focus upon what actually needs doing (as opposed to looking at isolated performance issues) and is a really effective way of professionally developing a team while including all of its members. This can be achieved by a visit to the workplace if appropriate.

Helpful pre-training sessions would be:

• Discussion with relevant team leader/manager
• Observation of relevant working practices
• Basic framework of development plan put forward by us

Now the development can start.
Delivery of the programme will be carried out using up-to-date, dynamic development principles that have been designed to address the following work place challenges -

• Objectives and targets
• Planning for efficiency
• Developing effective habits
• Managing individuals
• Developing and managing teams
• Initiating change
• Organisational structure
• Continuing professional development

RESOURCES

We believe that human interaction is the most effective way of learning how to understand people so anyone embarking upon a course must be prepared to participate.

The idea that training or coaching sessions are an excuse not to work is not one that we use. We aim to send you home feeling like you've had a long but stimulating session.

People learn in very different ways and learning to learn in these different ways will increase the value that you get out of the training. With different learning styles in mind we deliver using:

• Technology
• Presentations
• Role-play
• Work based assignments
• Group activities
• Pen and paper
• Talking

During the training, all delegates are encouraged to develop a Continuing Personal Development statement. This CPD statement is then used as a working document/ reference to record how the training has been transferred to the workplace.