Developing a Team & Human Network for the 21st Century
Description
A workshop that challenges management practice, encourages thinking the unthinkable, and that presents globally competitive leadership skills by exploring the nature of leadership, teams and management.
Who should attend?
Anyone who leads a team within an organization, or is a future manager.
Who will the workshop benefit?
This workshop can be made as theoretical or fun based as needed and can be flexible in terms of individual needs .Course Overview
This workshop can be made as theoretical or practical as required by the group and flexible in terms of needs. In order to enable learning outcomes to be achieved in a unique and fun way it will include discussion, debates and a critical exploration of:
- Developing a Team Identity
- Analysing strengths and weakness of teams in relation to goals
- Leading or managing?
- Analysing leadership styles
- Management skills
- Decision making
- Appraisal and feedback
- Pre-empting conflict
- Managing conflict
- High performance behaviour
- Beliefs and values
- Challenging assumptions about limitations
- Actions and behaviours that limit team performance
- Actions and behaviours that increase chances of success
- Holding the thought
- Continuing to develop the team in-house
Course Facilitator
Dr Paul Thomas PhD (Keele), MBA (Glam), ISRM, ILAM (Dip), PGCE (Adult), ILT, MTS, AIMC, CIM University of Glamorgan Business School A truly dynamic and passionate speaker, Paul is into complexity theory in a big way. His aim in life is to make Welsh organisations democratic, fun and enjoyable places to work. He wants to inspire organisational vision driven by the needs and passion of the people integral to an organisations sustainability, creativity and innovation: its employees, customers and end consumers. Paul is Founder/Director of DNA Wales Network and is Director of the Welsh Research Unit, Governance & Leadership (WRUGL).
Mark Pinches followed a successful sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry 
working with both Glaxo and the American pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp & Dohme. After moving into a training role, Mark developed a specific interest in management training & development. Mark then gained a Short Service Commission in the British Army and worked for the United Nations as a Senior Operations Liaison Officer before returning to the Army to complete a contract as a Staff Officer at the MOD Headquarters of Doctrine & Training, eventually leaving the Army in the rank of Major.
He has gained over 25 years experience in successfully applying his principles in a vast number of fields ranging from Formula One Motor Racing and Professional Sport through to Heavy Manufacturing and Consultative Sales Teams. Mark also lectures at university and college level and is both an assessor and verifier for all levels of The Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) courses on behalf of Wales’s 2nd largest teaching establishment’s commercial business development wing. He currently specialises in management and leadership development particularly in relation to change and stress management and their impact on performance. During his career, he has worked in a consulting capacity within a number of fields, including banking, information technology, education, local government, health care, insurance, manufacturing, police and emergency services, sales, marketing and the legal profession.
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