Managing With Style

We can manage people they way we are comfortable managing or the way the employee is comfortable being managed. Guess which way works? In this highly interactive program Rick leads your participants through an insightful and entertaining workshop that will be talked about and relived throughout this meeting and the next. Managing with Style proves that real world training can be fun.

Managing With Style is a fast paced laugh filled program that demonstrates how to build workplace teams, increase cooperation and productivity while motivating employees, even the "difficult" ones.

• Managing in the new millennium will feature some significant management changes;
• Managers will be expected to accomplish more with less.
• Some of your people will resist new ideas, others will promote them.
• Some people will demand empowerment, others will shrink from it.
• Some people will require long term security, others view their position as "temporary."
• Some of your people take control, others will resent them.

Managing With Style features another truism, People trust and follow people most like themselves. This premise is highly supportable when one examines the logic or emotion any work group.

Some of your employees require much detail, while others only want to hear the "bottom line." One employee wants to be your "pal" while another becomes suspicious if you are too friendly. Some people will consistently look for change while others want "stability." Problems arise when the manager and the employee approach each issue from two different perspectives. They are essentially speaking two different languages.

Managing With Style introduces the idea that we must manage and lead from the employee's perspective. Once we recognize and understand the perspective, needs and behavioral style of each of our employees, we begin to share a rapport from which teamwork and increased productivity has a firm base. Until that common ground is reached and the styles are matched, stress and resistance will persist.

Program Objectives:

• Introduce the concept of Behavioral Styles
• Identify the Four Basic Styles
• Identify the Participants' Behavioral Style
• Identify how each Style makes workplace decisions
• Discover how to Identify each Style
• Discover what Actions "Stress" each Behavioral Style
• Discover how the manager's actions may sometimes frustrate employee efforts

Expected Results:

Your participants will:

• recognize the needs of different employee styles
• respond to employee needs from the employee's perspective
• be able to reduce tension and stress within the workplace
• develop skills that increase cooperation and trust
• be able to modify personal behavior, not manipulate others