Course benefits:
The concept of maximising what you already have may not be new. Organisations
now face unprecedented challenges during a tightening market place.
This workshop focuses on providing you with ideas and proven methods
that you can apply to your major processes. These techniques will
enable you to achieve added value performance at virtually no extra
cost. They will provide you with concepts to maximise fully some of
your existing processes and create measurable added value.
Who should attend:
This workshop is intended for those who wish to use techniques to
improve organisational performance in a reversionary period.
Prerequisites:
Personnel attending this workshop need to be of sufficient seniority
to be able to implement the process improvements and to measure the
added value contribution to their business.
What you will learn:
At the end of this workshop attendees will have sufficient skill
and knowledge to implement all or some of the processes discussed.
They will also be able to use a process to measure added value.
On successful completion of the course, attendees will be able to:
- Audit and measure communications effectiveness
- Build employee connectivity
- Use a strategic framework to disseminate strategic objectives
and turn strategy into measurable action
- Apply a proven creativity measure to capture, evaluate and rank
ideas into a strategy for improvement
- Apply two techniques to generate business improvement ideas
- Apply two methods to rationalise ideas into business actions
- Use a process to evaluate added value
- Describe two ways to improve the current appraisal system
- Improve recruitment and selection by up to 40%
- Define training activities that minimise wasted effort and produce
measurable results
- Re-align three business processes to gain connectivity improvement
- Improve management of budgets
- Measure the impact of this workshop on your organisation
- Improve an individual's performance in the organisation
- Measure the current competency level in the organisation
- Apply a new motivation model that will get results
- Apply a technique to improve process flow
- Apply a management style that gets results
- Know the change process for individuals
- Describe the concepts and value of self-managing teams
What you will cover:
- Collecting and implementing corporate knowledge - Corporate process
for ideas generation and creativity; The four cog method for organisational
focus; Use of other methods
- Strategy into action - Three methods to focus strategy; Use of
a strategic framework; The benefits of using a framework approach;
The quality plan approach to guarantee results
- Evaluation - The significance of validation and evaluation; Measuring
added value; Producing consistent results
- Reengineering process and people - An in-house approach to re
engineering processes; Straight arrow concepts; The four stages
of change - the people dimension
- Corporate communications - What works and what does not; The power
of Team briefing; Video conferencing; Management briefings - the
secret to corporate focus
- Empowered self managing teams - The process; Use of correct management
style; Stages of team development; A process for staffing levels
- Can anything be improved in corporate finance? - Priority allocation
of resources; Understanding budgets; Commitment accounting - achieving
budget; Budget spend phasing; Phasing of the budget cycle, strategy
cycle, Appraisal cycle and training cycle
- Recruitment and selection - Is a 40% improvement a reality? Value
of psychometric testing and personality questionnaires; 4 areas
to improve the interview process; How do we detect when people lie?
- Improving Productivity via Performance Appraisal - Three intrinsic
elements of appraisal ; The new appraisal cycle; Setting people
up for success; The performance focus of appraisal; Measuring corporate
hp
- A new look at motivation - The old models don't work today; A
new model for action; Re-aligning pay and rewards
- Training - Cost or investment? Facts about training effectiveness;
Linking training with business focus; Changing Training Departments
into added value contributors
- Workshop review - Back at work actions; Methods of measurement
How you will learn:
This specialist workshop is fully supported with additional briefing
and consultancy for those companies wishing to proceed with all or
parts of this programme.
Duration and availability:
Two days non-residential. In-house only.
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