The manager: leader, expert, coach or friend?
Management styles reflect changes in society. The manager’s role in our post-industrial, knowledge-driven society is very different to what it was in a purely industrial society. Even if the image of the manager, with his/her power and expertise, is still with us, we now expect a manager to be not only a leader and expert, but also a coach and powerhouse for his/her team.
Objectives
- To get to know different management styles
- To differentiate between, and understand, the manager’s different roles
- To know which style to choose according to the situation and individual
- To broaden the manager’s range of leadership tools
- To feel more at ease in different managerial roles.
Content
- Analyzing your own management style
- Analyzing your attitudes and those of your team members
- Confronting other management styles
- Working with different management tools
- Analyzing the needs and experience of your team members and organization
- Making team members more aware of the manager’s role as a coach.
Methods
- Role play
- Self-reflection
- Feedback
- Exercises
- Group discussions
- Discussion of real-life situations
- Lectures
- Printed handouts.