Leading and Managing a Management Team

There is a famous Chinese proverb: "The fish rots from the head". Applied to business thinking it implies that much that goes wrong in organisations is due to a failure to manage and lead well at a senior level. Recent high profile failings in banks and the newspaper industry have shown that this maxim was never truer than today.

An organisation's culture and values does not come from the company vision, mission statement and values, it comes from management alignment with those things. Typically as managers step up to manage a team of managers they become more focused on strategic issues, but this can potentially leave a significant gap between themselves and the next layer down. Thus, those who manage management teams must ensure the right behaviours and processes are in place. This course focuses on identifying the issues and pressures that may lead to such a gap, and on the practicalities of fixing it successfully.

• Improve your awareness of management team issues
• Increase your positive personal impact
• Enhance relations and avoid 'silo mentalities'
• Minimise politics and maximise performance

Managers who have just stepped up from managing a team to managing a team of managers.