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Module 1: Core Management Skills
Aim:
To give participants an understanding of a manager's roles and responsibilities, an opportunity to reflect on their own style and issues as a woman leader and some tools to build their confidence and effectiveness.
Objectives: By the end of the module the participants will have:
- Understanding of their roles and responsibilities as managers;
- Knowledge of management, leadership styles and decision making processes that enhance a manager's effectiveness and confidence;
- Reflected on their own style, strengths and weaknesses as a woman leader;
- Knowledge of how to plan a presentation.
The key contents:
- Setting the context – gender, development and empowerment
- I am a manager - self image, motivation and personal development
- Roles and responsibilities of a manager
- Leadership
- Leadership, vision and empowerment
- Decision making
- Management styles
- Presentation skills part 1 – planning the presentation
Module 2: Organisational Management Skills
Aim:
To give participants an understanding of how organisations function, in theory and in practice, and a range of strategies they can use to be more effective and influential within their own institution.
Objectives: By the end of the module the participants will have:
- Knowledge of various types of organisational structure;
- Understanding of workload distribution and delegation processes within an organisation;
- Understanding of various types of power and influence, their uses and their appropriateness in an institution;
- Considered how to use their learning so far to consolidate their position within their institution.
The key contents:
- Knowledge of various types of organisational structure;
- Introduction to organisational management
- Weber's bureaucracy
- Institution design A: external factor
- Institution design B: internal factor and features of institution design
- Lines of authority and communication, types of power and their use in institutions
- Power and influence in context: Conflicts for Cambodian women - position, perception and self image
- Work allocation within an institutional structure
- Delegation processes
- Presentation skills part 2 - presenting yourself in order to consolidate your position in the institution
Module 3: Developing Professional Relationship
Aim:
To give participants an understanding of a range of skills and practical strategies for influencing others positively, developing constructive working relationships and building consensus and commitment. Linking this to the bigger picture of their role, as managers and as women, in contributing to the government and to the empowerment of women in Cambodia.
Objectives: By the end of the module the participants will have:
- Understanding of a range of influencing skills and strategies, their uses and appropriateness, and how they can be used constructively, in relationships both within and outside the institution;
- Practiced various influencing skills and strategies in role-play situations;
- Reflected on their own style, strengths and weaknesses in influencing others.
The key contents:
- Introduction to influencing skills
- Influencing styles
- Influencing skills practice
- Finding common ground
- Negotiation
- Developing external relationships
- Presentation skills part 3 - briefing and preparation, presenting yourself and your arguments externally
- Whose vision? Consultation and fair process
- The big picture – the role of women managers as a force for change in Cambodia
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