management training classes

iubigred007

iubigred007

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hello all,

I am new to management (within the last year) and it has been asked that I take some more management classes to improve my skills. I have taken one, but it was a short, un-useful managerial leadership class at new horizons learning centers.

anyone know of any good ones out there? maybe from personal experience or something a friend/family member may have been a part of? I would like for this one to be a few days long, and maybe local to Tampa, FL area... but I may be asking a lot.

thanks to all!
 
Hey, I'm local to Tampa, I'm in tampa right now. I have a few folks in mind; I Graduated in Management From USF, and keep a bunch of connections there. What are you looking for exactly, a team building seminar, or a single person (classroom) type of setting?
 
I've attended management seminars on time management, stress management, team building, empowerment - you name it. The two that I found most useful were those on time management, given by Day-Timers, Inc. - a workpage diary manufacturer that reinforced good habits of prioritizing your work and, especially, a seminar given by Ken Blanchard. He's the author of "The One Minute Manager" and many other motivational business management books. His book and his seminar were concentrated and practical. His seminar emphasized delegation, reinforcement of goals and clarity of objectives. Both were great helps in my management career.

The most useless and insulting seminars that I've attended were "team builders". I felt that the speakers were unqualified, the exercises pointless, and the goals unclear. In my case they were real time wasters.

I'd recommend first buying and reading Ken Blanchard's book - "The One Minute Manager" the searching out seminars with which he is associated. Then I'd also try and find a good time management seminar.
 
Not a course, but a book I'd recommend:
Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals, by Jeff Cannon and Jon Cannon. I've read mine cover to cover twice. Alot of useful stuff in there. I keep it it my briefcase, and read short sections when I'm waiting for an appointment, in the airport, etc. I've underlined the relevent stuff so I can re-read it quickly. Not alot of touch feely crap, but alot of good straight forward advice. It all centers around building a strong team made up of the right individuals with the right attitude. Works for me.
Scott
 
There are lots of fads in the management game .One that I'm familiar with was the Zero Defects program started by Martin-Marietta in the 60s.One company involved with making parts for the space program found that one 30 minute visit by an astronaut did more for quality than the entire zero defects program !!! That's because people are HUMAN not machines .This is something they obviously don't teach in business schools....Take whatever courses you can, you'll find some good things in each and forget the rest....I don't have the reference but there is an old paper on leadership [I saw it published in U.S.Naval Institute Proceedings] that makes an excellent personal guide.
 
there is a good book called 'How to Succeed in Sales (without really trying)'. I can't remember the author, but he is a Dale Carnegie graduate. The book is humourously written and interesting as it is the psychology of selling. It covers 'selling' yourself.
 
maybe a little more backgorund will help; i run an IT Helpdesk with 5 guys on it (6 including me). all 5 guys are with me here in tampa, so i don't have to do any remote management. but my manager is in MA, so i don't get all the help that maybe a new manager should have... although he has been good and helpful most of the time. i was a co-worker w/ some of my team at one point, then promoted and hired 2 more, and i am also the youngest one here. i am 28 and i have one other guy that is 28, but the rest are 30 and up. hard times at first, but i whipped them into shape quickly to make my management happy, but i still need to learn for future issues or improvements to the team.

thanks everyone for the suggestion! i will look into some of those books, especially the SEAL one. one of my employees is an ex-Marine and can be really hard headed most times, maybe the SEAL book will help me deal with him better :)

to answer dijos question; i am mainly looking for a classroom type setting.

the reason i need a class/seminar is that i have it on my goals/objectives for this quarter and need to have more proof than "i read a book."
 
In a 32 year career with Alabama Power Company I attended dozens of management training programs, both in-house and out. I also completed an MBA. In all that time the most beneficial single class I participated in was one I taught early in my career through tapes from the American Management Association called "Effective Listening." Not very sexy or glamerous sounding, but not many managers know how to really listen, to customers, co-workers, employees, etc.
 
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