Moving into management: taking on your first management role - for the public sector

Course summary

Are you in your first management role?
Would you like to know more about how to motivate and manage your team?
Are you conscious that you should delegate more but unsure how to go about it?
Do you work within the public sector, including housing, health or education?

This course is for you.

The Centre’s Moving into management course for the public sector, endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management, will give you the basic knowledge and understanding you need to be a successful first-time manager. Aimed at new managers and those contemplating their first management role, it comes with a number of tips and tools to use as a manager that are tried and tested in real management situations. Our publication ‘Moving into management’ by Julia Braggins comes free with every booking and is a useful refresher, reinforcing the general overview of management techniques and tools given within the course.

Each delegate leaves with a concrete plan of action to take forward and the follow up session helps to reinforce these goals and explore what worked and what still needs to be in place.

Course outline

On this practical, hands on workshop you will cover:

• the role of the manager
• how do I fit in? Managing in different organisational structures and cultures
• motivating individuals and teams
• managing performance giving helpful feedback
• you and your management style
• planning and prioritising
• managing both workload and your team
• the manager as communicator

Who is this course for?

This course is for first time managers working in the public sector. Others with more experience but no formal training will also benefit from this course.

What will this course help me do: learning outcomes?

Each day includes some training sessions, but the emphasis is on practical exercises in groups, pairs and on your own. The course offers many opportunities to work on your own real-life public sector management problems, in a supportive and totally confidential environment.

Other courses to consider

This course is an introduction to a range of management skills. The Centre offers a wide programme of other management courses, all of which have been designed to help you further your professional development. Why not take a look at STRATEGIC PLANNING AND THINKING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; FINANCE FOR NON FINANCIAL MANAGERS; TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MANAGERS; DIVERSITY PLANNING.

You may also be interested in purchasing the Centre's published book: Moving into management by Julia Braggins. Click here to buy the book.

Course dates

This course is run on request. This means that we will keep your details on file and once we have at least three people interested in the course we will contact you to let you know and to schedule a date. Please contact us to log your interest in this course.

Alternatively we can also run this as an in-company course. Find out more about in-company training.