If you feel that your business or your employees will benefit from a business mentor we will work in one way, driven by your current challenges. If you want to learn, or want them to learn, about a particular business skill or family of skills and how to acquire them quickly then focused learning sessions might be an effective answer. These will teach you the theory behind the skill and then offer you an opportunity to apply this in your own situation. These are developed on the basis of your past experience and your aspirations for the future.
The advantages of working like this include:
For the employer
1. Your employee gets individual, relevant attention.
2. This is cost and time effective.
3. Skills are developed, embedded, and practiced as part of the process using current business situations.
For the employee
1. They gain a personal tutor to help them develop the skills they need and then help to practice them.
2. They can ask questions and explore the answers in a confidential setting.
3. They go way with a plan to practice their learning and then review it in
order to refine it. This further embeds the learning.
These focussed sessions may include:
Being your own boss
- What have you taken on?
- Your responsibilities
- Your personal brand
- Sharing your vision
- Building a strategy
- Building a team
- Building long term loyalty in others
Effective Communication
Knowing when, what and how to communicate
- Communication can always be improved, support is on hand to maximise effectiveness
- Knowing when and what to communicate
- Being a good role model
- Running productive meetings
- Negotiation skills
Leadership & Motivation
What motivates and demotivates others
- What is a leader?
- Creating a productive culture
- What motivates other people
- Influential leadership – Leading when the team is not yours
- Managing diverse professionals
- Goal setting – yours, team goals, linking to business objectives, measurement
- Effective delegation
- Developing your team members to use all their potential to achieve your business targets
Effective Self-Management
Understanding yourself, working with yourself and others
- Taking on a new role
- Understanding yourself and how to work with others
- Reluctant managers – people who have been promoted as they’re good at what they do, however they are not necessarily natural leaders or able to let go of the details/operational tasks
- Being assertive in an acceptable way
- Good personal time management – prioritising, accountability, linking to targets, valuing your time
- Assertiveness – dealing with difficult people, asking for what you want and managing conflict (yours/others)
- Looking after yourself
Being a New Reluctant Manager Understanding what you need to do to make the transition
- Effective recruitment
- Agreeing targets
- Managing performance
- Having difficult conversations
- Identifying and using your strengths
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Get in touch with me to find out how my focussed learning sessions can help you.
A focussed learning session is typically two and a half hours including a break. Each one is £225 but if they form part of series an individual price would be agreed.