If you want to provide an employee with the leadership skills and education required to advance within your business, or maybe you’re looking to invest in your own management career, a course in management and leadership is a logical way to go.
The skills taught in our Management and Leadership courses are designed for all levels of managers, from those looking to pursue a career in management, right up to Board Members looking to refresh their training.
At LCT, we have over 100 training courses for all levels of your team and in this blog post, we’ve cherry-picked 5 courses for your managers to advance their skills. Before we dive into the courses, let’s take a look at who these courses may be appropriate for within your business.
What careers are there in management?
Management offers a wide range of career options which will vary for each business. Some examples of management jobs include:
- Board Members
- Senior Directors
- Senior Managers
- Departmental Directors
- Departmental Managers
- Finance Managers
- Marketing Managers
- Human Resources Managers
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- Operations Managers
- Sales Managers
- Line Managers
The size of your organisation will usually dictate how many levels of management you have but as you can see, there are plenty of milestones to hit within a career in management!
What skills does a manager need?
You could argue that a manager can never have too many skills due to the varying responsibilities their jobs have day to day. However, there are some essential skills for a successful career in management that not only benefit the manager and team, but also the business as a whole.
Essential skills that managers need include:
- Communication Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Leadership Skills
- Training Skills
- Pro-active Skills
- Planning Skills
… this list really could go in! This is why there has never been a better time to invest in management training. So let’s dive in to our top picks!
5 Courses to Advance Your Career in Management
The High Impact Leadership course teaches individuals the importance of being authentic within their management career so they can lead with authority and confidence in their role. This management course aims to raise students’ self-awareness, providing them with personal skills that will allow them to create deeper connections with their team.
If you’re looking to train someone within your business management to provide results with a happy and valued team, this course provides all the knowledge, skills and training they need.
Every successful manager needs to have exceptional communication skills. This applies not only to written and verbal communication skills but also to how receptive the manager is to their team’s body language and behaviours.
Without this understanding of their team, the manager’s problem-solving skills will fall flat in terms of effectiveness and cause headaches within their team.
Within LCT’s Building Communication Skills course, managers will learn practical ways to better understand their team and how to communicate effectively with their team to achieve desired outcomes.
Our Principles of Negotiation course is an interactive training programme providing managers with the resources needed to influence their team for a more productive working environment.
They will learn how to welcome challenges and constructive criticism and deal with these situations in a confident and controlled manner. These are arguably one of the most important skills to master when advancing in a career in management – and reducing the workload on your human resources department!
The Principles of Negotiation course is suitable for most levels of management within a business and is an important step in any manager’s career ladder.
This course is a 1-day programme designed to teach students the basic fundamentals of team building. They will learn essential techniques for their career in management, such as how to delegate roles within a team for effective team building and how to turn that team into a strong one within your business.
Our Effective Teambuilding in Corporate Environments Course is suitable for managers of every level, from line managers through to senior managers, and we offer flexible dates to suit your requirements.
A strong manager is an assertive manager. There are many other factors to being a strong manager, of course, and as managers advance up the senior management career ladder they will undoubtedly learn other skills, but it is essential to develop assertiveness early on in a management career.
Without appropriate training, it’s very easy for a manager to come across as aggressive or manipulative in their behaviour, or possibly a little too passive, which will not help to advance their career in management, nor boost team morale. This is why it’s so important for managers to have an understanding of how these behaviours differ and how to increase their presence and confidence in an assertive way. All of which they will learn in our Developing Assertiveness course.
This course is suitable for every level of manager you may find within your business, from operations managers all the way up to board members. In short, there is never a better time to invest in your own development to ensure you are assertive with your team.
At LCT, we can’t say enough how important it is to invest in your management team’s skills and training, no matter what point they are in their career. There’s always room to improve, adapt and refresh these skills to ensure you are running a tight ship!
To learn more about our Management and Leadership courses, and how they can benefit your business, click here to see all of our available courses.