MANAGEMENT GROUP TRAINING

It is vital for the success of any organization that the Management Group functions well. The Management Group should let go of any operational tasks and turn its attention to long-term strategic planning and ensuring future competitiveness.

Management Group members need a clear understanding of the organization’s big picture and a strategic vision of how to reach the main goals. Management Group members have a major impact on policy decisions in addition to representing the interests of their own business area. Our Realized^® Management Group trainings are developed to greatly improve your Management Group’s skills to perform this multifaceted task.

In our Realized^® Management Group training, we develop and strengthen management skills and leadership, the recognizing of strategic entities, methods for working efficiently, as well as skills for cooperation and visionary planning. With us you will develop on a practical level and gain concrete tools and solutions.

In our Realized^® Management Group training we will find the solutions for how to best utilize the different views, opinions, and diverse expertise of your Management Group members. Together, we will build an optimal working, cooperation, and communication model. We will shape goal-driven dialogue into a tool for proactive decision-making. If needed, we can also reorganize and streamline all other Management Group practices and policies from the ground up.

Reaching successful and efficient Management Group practices is not necessarily a time-consuming process. With the support of our coaches and Realized^® training, major results in the quality of work can be reached in just a few months.

A twofold training for Top Management and Management Groups in visionary thinking and strategy building as well as the implementation of strategy. We will emphasize the parts that best serve your development needs.

Strategy and Vision

The world changes constantly and relying on past data makes you vulnerable. Leaders should mainly look ahead, listen for quiet signals, and focus on predicting the future. In addition to solid business skills, the most successful leaders have an excellent intuition that helps them quickly interpret facts and complements their understanding of industry movements.

In this Strategic Leadership Training we will carry out a strategic process to clarify the goals, vision, and mission of your organization. We develop your strategic and visionary thinking. We create efficient practices to enable leaders on an individual level and together as a Management Group to create new possibilities and direction for the organization.

Implementation of Strategy

According to management research, over 70 % of strategies fail to produce desired results because of insufficient implementation. The responsibility of implementation lies with the top and middle management. A strategic change can be realized only if everyone understands their part in the big picture.

In this Strategic Management Training we focus on how to implement and communicate the desired strategic big picture so that it will direct everyone’s behavior by clarifying goals and helping reach them. We build a framework for the development of a business leadership action plan, including the methods of communication, motivation, and follow-up.

We often see in our client organizations just how critical successful implementation really is and that it is seldom carried out with enough care. Informing is only the very beginning of implementation. After that we need to systematically convert the strategy into practical objectives for each organizational level. In the Strategic Management Training, we learn a Strategic Implementation Model, which increases motivation, efficiency, and commitment.

Strategic Management Training Contents

• Strategic leadership as a tool for the Management Group
• Strategic direction of the organization
• Looking ahead, sensing quiet signals, prediction skills
• Harnessing your visionary thinking skills and building the organization’s vision
• Reviewing your mission – task and purpose
• The big picture of our organization – how to communicate it?
• What does the big picture and reaching set goals require from your personnel?
• An efficient Strategic Implementation Model drives change
• Creating a sense of urgency to improve the chances of success
• Constructive and active follow-up through two-way feedback

The capacity of a Management Group to steer their organization into the future is largely dependent on cooperation skills. The essence of success in the work of a Management Group consists of excellent communication skills and the correct level of discussion. Well-functioning communication facilitates common decision making and is the basis for optimally steering the organization forward.

We coach your Management Group to work seamlessly together, to improve communication, and to make enough room for strategic work and planning. In the Management Group training we develop and clarify systematic working methods and practices, yearly planning, and structure of meetings.

In this Management Group training, we also dive deeper into a most essential part of working within the Management Group: developing systematic decision-making practices. In this we utilize a decision-making rationalization test developed in-house.

To make wise decisions, Management Groups need to utilize a systematic dialogue-based decision-making process to leverage the diverse opinions, visions, skills, and efforts of its members. This requires that each member of the group clearly recognizes their own role and knows how to participate efficiently.

In our experience, many Management Groups often do not realize they need specific skills for decision making. This need becomes visible when the Management Group members have difficulty explaining how they have reached a certain decision.

Management Group Training Contents

• The Management Group members as cooperative leaders of the organization, their role as a Management Group member, their role as an executive
• The vision and mission of a Management Group
• The work structure of a Management Group
• The yearly work plan and meeting schedule and purpose
• Developing interaction within the Management Group, skillful conversation and dialogue
• How to build trust?
• Decision making in the Management Group
• Models for decision making, test, and results
• Forming a common vision in the Management Group on the future of the company and the required leadership

In a strong Management Group, the members know each other and can use each other’s specific skills and diverse opinions without a power struggle. To produce solid business results, the Management Group needs to build strong common trust and advanced team culture. To benefit from our different strengths, we need to know each other’s logic and behavioral style.

In the Management Group Team Building, we build empowerment through well-functioning interaction and dialogue. We increase self-knowledge and get to know the different personalities within your management group.

In this Management Group teamwork training we use this knowledge to build a culture of close cooperation and teamwork, and a sense of common responsibility. Everyone’s true strengths are discovered and recognized. Trust between members of the group increases and induces commitment.

Completo DISC

To reach these results, we use the Completo DISC Management Group Member’s Profile, the Completo DISC Management Group Chart, as well as an analysis of strengths and areas of development. By analyzing the group dynamics, we enable success by leveraging strengths and discovering development needs, and by workshopping creative and new solutions.

Management Group Training Contents

• The personalities within the Management Group, Completo DISC Management Group Member’s Profile
• Reaching goals through trust and strong interaction
• Completo DISC Management Group chart, Management Group dynamics
• Forming a common vision in the Management Group on the future of the company and the required leadership
• The sought-after teamwork culture of the Management Group
• The strengths and development areas in the functioning of the Management Group
• Developing a sustainable work method