Training to Address Recurring Management Challenges

Purdue MEP can help your first-time managers and supervisors establish the communication and management skills needed to direct the performance of individuals and teams.

Our Leadership Solutions training series addresses the recurring management challenges that every leader confronts on a daily basis! These three-four hour workshops are designed for 6 to 18 participants and can be offered onsite or as public workshops.

Leadership Workshops Include:

• Attitudes and Motivation
  This workshop will help you assess individual attitudes and understand motivation. Learn attitude adjustment techniques for creating productive work environments. Learn to achieve organizational goals by understanding employee needs. Students will also discover how motivation impacts workplace effectiveness and how to create a supportive culture to enhance employee growth.
  
  
• Creating Self Awareness - CAPS Study
  Self-awareness is essential to one’s personal and interpersonal functioning and in understanding other people. Knowledge and appreciation of one’s learning style, leadership style, and temperaments are key indicators of effective managerial potential. Students will discover their preferred learning style, explore individual learning differences and gain strategies to work more effectively with others.
  
  
• Effective Communication
  Have you ever expressed frustration around perceived poor communication? Effective communication is all about the transfer of information and the accurate understanding of that information. This workshop will explore the reason why communication efforts fail and then discover techniques to help improve your communication personal communication skills.
  
  
• Essential Skills of Leadership
  This module builds the foundation for helping your team leaders align team members with your organization's strategic objectives. Essential Skills of Leadership teaches team leaders how to maintain team members' self-esteem, focus on behavior, and encourage others to commit themselves to common goals.
  
  
• Insights into Generational Differences
  Multiple generations makeup todays workplace. Understanding the strengths and differences of each generation is essential to leading in the 21st Century. Generational reactions to specific situations will be discussed and strategies to understand and build on each generation’s strengths will be discussed.
  
  
• Leadership Basics
  Excellent leadership is essential to the organization’s survival. Developing leadership for any organization requires an understanding of the basic principles of leadership and the practices and structures that enable others to learn to lead. Today’s workforce is changing and requires a new leadership focus. There are many leadership styles but which one will work best in your organization with your new workforce? Proper leadership will bring encouragement, empowerment, and renewed vitality to your organization.
  
  
• Managing Conflicts
  Whenever people work together, conflicts arise. This module helps managers develop skills to identify the source of team member conflict and helps individuals understand another point of view and move beyond the conflict. The module includes Sources of Team Member Conflict; Effective Ways to Resolve Conflict; Mismanaged Agreement Appearing to be Conflict; and Positive and Negative Aspects of Conflict.
  
  
• Managing Organizational Change
  A challenge for all organizations is how to initiate and sustain change. In today’s contemporary business environment organizational change is the responsibility of everyone and the need for change is critical. This class will enable participants to identify and develop a skill set that can be used to facilitate necessary change at all levels of the organization.
  
  
• Managing Performance: Improving Performance
  Helping your people move toward their performance potential is of utmost importance to any organization. This seminar will help you master the skills that ensure peak performance and maximize goal achievement from your people.
  
  
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
  As a manager, you are confronted with situations that need decisions. Take a leadership role in the problem solving and decision making process. This experientially based workshop will help you understand the decision making process.
  
  
• Time Management and Goal Setting
  Feel burned out? Doesn’t seem to be enough time in a day? Doing more with less? This seminar will help you explore time management techniques to put you back in control of your job and your life. This interactive session will help you build strategies to set goals and priorities while maximizing time management opportunities. Learn how to accomplish more without enjoying it less.
  
  
• Understanding Group Dynamics – Teams and Team Building
  Group dynamics are the social processes governing small group interactions and the collective influence that individuals have on each other. The challenges of leading groups are different than those of leading individuals. This workshop is designed to help leaders build the set of skills necessary to effectively lead and utilize groups in the workplace. We will analyze your group building skills, learn about group dynamics and stages of group development and practice assessing group behaviors. Students will discover the difference between working groups and teams and discover ways to build high performance teams.