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The Essential Leader uses interactive case studies, practice activities, and expert feedback to help managers develop the skills necessary to become high performers. These programs are available online and can be used as stand-alone training or as part of a blended solution. Each Essential Leader program includes: interactive real-world case studies, expert feedback, practical tools, Harvard Business Review resources, and performance support tools. All are geared to help managers quickly learn and apply critical concepts and skills to their own work situations.

Topics Include:
  • Service Success
  • Decision Making
  • Managing Change
  • Managing Virtual Teams
  • What is a Leader
  • Influencing and Motivating Others
  • Managing Difficult Situations
  • Coaching for Results
  • Managing Across Differences
  • Managing Direct Reports
  • Leadership Transitions Learn more...

Harvard ManageMentor® is the ultimate just-in-time reference tool delivering advice on more than 35 business topics right to the desktops of busy managers and executives. With an install base of over 2 million desktops, the program is quickly emerging as a core tool among both managers and executives.
The program contains helpful and impactful frameworks which highlight the core areas of business - strategy, teamwork, communication, managing a business, etc. Clients have used Harvard ManageMentor as an ongoing training and as a reference tool. Clients have also used the tools to develop and reinforce "training calendars" which reinforce core management skills. Learn more...

Stepping up to Management is specifically designed to help newly promoted managers gain immediate success. This insightful online program provides new managers with concepts and tools to make sense of their new role manage and cultivate relationships, organize specific tasks required on the job, and work with their supervisors to become truly effective managers - without getting bogged down. This is an eight module program. Learn more...

Developing as a Leader is pivotal series of online programs designed to help turn managers into leaders. It targets essential developmental skills is especially valuable for mid-level managers who need to use these skills to assume increased management and leadership roles and responsibilities.. Learn more...

NEW PROGRAMS:

Startling Facts on Newly Hired Managers

  1. 40% of new leaders fail to meet expectations of management in their new role*.
  2. The "Soft Costs" of unsuccessful transitions create a huge negative impact that ripples throughout the organization and its customers.

SOLUTION?

KnowledgeWorks Presents an Open Facilitated 4-Part Workshop based on Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning Program

"Stepping Up To Management"

The Stepping Up To Management Program is a Step-By-Step e-Learning Program designed to Meet The Challenges of Newly Hired, and particularly First-Time Managers.

This program is based on the work of recognized experts in management development including Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author of Becoming a Manager and Michael Watkins, author of Right from the Start and many others.

This program will enable managers to:

  1. Learn new skills while staying on top of their work
  2. Increase their confidence to lead their teams
  3. Speed advancement
  4. Be effective in their new role
  5. Establish a unique management style
  6. Get on their feet quickly... without getting overwhelmed

This program will enable your company to:

  1. Infuse learning into the workflow of your managers
  2. Enable new managers to deliver results faster
  3. Increase the number of successful transitions, boosting morale and productivity at all levels
  4. Avoid derailments, saving significant retraining or rehiring expenses
  5. Foster a close relationship between the new manager and the manager's supervisor, who will be better able to coach them though the transition.

For more information: Click here or call 876-977-6227 or 876-361-3048 or email pbryan@kworksconsulting.com

* (Right Management Survey of 826 HR directors, 2003)


 
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