Course : Mastering Cross-Cutting Management
Practical course - 3d
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 | Boost your position and legitimacy as a versatile manager |
| Mobilize all project players in order to develop cooperation |
| Set up motivation-building delegations |
| Develop your listening and persuasion skills to encourage involvement |
Intended audience
Managers, team leaders.
Prerequisites
Experience in management desirable.
Practical details
Exercise
This highly interactive course relies on numerous hands-on exercises and role-playing, with individualized feedback and analysis.
Course schedule
1 Roles and responsibilities of versatile managers
- Understand the main tasks of a versatile manager.
- Identify the different roles of a project manager.
- Understand the specifics of versatile management and define a manager’s qualities.
- Enact a “partner”, “cooperation”, or “client/supplier”-style relationship with your team.
- Build and inspire a shared vision, give meaning to actions and projects.
- Learn to use both facets of a versatile manager: The manager-expert and the manager-leader.
- Boost your leadership skills: Show the way, lead by example, encourage active collaboration.
Exercise
Discussions and feedback on the role of the project manager. Self-assessment of your own leadership style and your positioning within your organization.
2 Team cohesion and orientation
- Understanding how teams function at work: Characteristics of a project team, and its dynamics.
- Identifying different value systems within a team and incorporating them into your management.
- Defining the benefits of team cohesion.
- Developing team commitment: Methods and tools.
- Taking into account the different environments of team members and their organizations.
- Instituting operational rules: Holding meetings, debriefings, etc.
- Anticipating difficulties: Planning possible scenarios and the best replacement solutions.
Role-playing
Role-playing with debriefings on getting a team committed to a project. Case study on team dynamics.
3 Motivation and mobilization
- Identifying key factors to the success of a project: Success parameters.
- Understanding and containing team stress and personal stress.
- Taking into account power dynamics: Identifying contributors, opponents, undecideds, and waverers...
- Implementing success indicators: Qualitative and quantitative assessment criteria...
- Creating a stimulating environment through trust, recognizing and rewarded successes
- Guiding the team toward success: Feedback and debriefing to enable growth.
Case study
Case study on power dynamics. Work on an analysis grid of the degree of autonomy enjoyed by a project’s players.
4 Delegation and assigning responsibilities
- Identifying tasks to delegate: Map of skills, delegation added value, availabilities, etc.
- Setting clear, quantified objectives: SMART Goals.
- Learning how to manage the project’s priorities: The Eisenhower priority matrix, distinguishing urgent and important, etc.
- Defining the delegation process: Formalization, control, and evaluation.
- Setting up a planned auditing system.
- Giving the team responsibility for implementing the decisions made.
- Implementing managerial contracts or delegation contracts within the project team.
- Determining a motivation-building schedule and assessing the results.
Exercise
Building a delegation plan. Role-playing with debriefings on communication and delegation.
5 Communication and involvement
- The importance of managerial communication in project management: Informative and performative communication.
- Understanding the communication process: Sender, message, receiver.
- Being aware of different sensory channels: VAKOG.
- Learning how to listen to validate information: Practicing active listening.
- Learning how to ask questions and rephrase.
- Adapting your language to your listeners: Verbal and non-verbal synchronization.
- Giving responsibility to the project’s players.
Role-playing
Exercises and role-playing on "selling your ideas”, learning communication tools, and developing a managerial influence strategy.
6 Personal progress action plan
- Identifying your areas for managerial progress and setting goals for yourself.
- Determining measurement criteria and things to watch out for.
- Determining deadlines and control/assessment methods.
Exercise
Building a personal progress action plan.
Customer reviews
4,5 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
ALEXANDRE G.
01/06/26
5 / 5
A good balance between theory and practice. Some interesting anecdotes.
MARIE-MURIEL P.
01/06/26
5 / 5
The trainer’s teaching was good, but I was left unsure as to where my weaknesses lie and how I can improve them
LAURENCE O.
01/06/26
4 / 5
a wide range of tools explained through practical examples
Publication date : 06/17/2024
PARTICIPANTS
Managers, team leaders.
PREREQUISITES
Experience in management desirable.
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
Managers, team leaders.
PREREQUISITES
Experience in management desirable.
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.
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This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.