Managing Professionals for Results | Nelson Croom | Accounting and Finance Portfolio |

To manage professionals to best effect you need to develop a variety of managerial skills. This course will help you hone your leadership skills to enable you to point your team in the best direction, improve your ability to coach and get the best out of your team, and help you position yourself within the team to act as a role model and effectively balance your team's workload.

Managing Professionals for Results is part of Nelson Croom's Issues and Debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today's changing market. Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

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Managing Professionals for Results enables the learner to:

Think about what management is and how to nurture a talent for managing people
Look at how their coaching and leadership skills affect their team
Think about the best approaches to use when managing professionals
Examine the different roles managers are expected to take as part of their team and how to effectively fulfil these different roles and manage from within a team
Effectively give feedback to those on their team and also avoid or resolve any conflict which arises on the team

Topics

What is management?

Defining management

Types of management

Managing different resources

Structure and teams

Team growth

Being a leader

The ideal leader

Leadership styles

Goal translation

Setting objectives

Using ongoing performance criteria

Being a coach

The ideal coach

Motivation

Adapting your style

Individual feedback

Identifying performance problems

Group feedback

Being part of the team

Delegating effectively

Balancing workloads

Being a role model

Offering help

Dealing with conflict

Communicating effectively

Target audience

This course is designed to appeal to all finance professionals who manage a team of any size.