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Management Training Program
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Our Management Training Program focuses on the needs of the “accidental managers” -- activists and leaders who never thought their social justice work would require them to master the skills of getting work done through others.
We know that no single individual can ever accomplish big social justice goals on his or her own. It takes a team of people, led by a strong manager who knows how to channel, blend and leverage their individual talents and capacities into a whole that is bigger and more potent than the sum of its parts.
MAG's training grounds managers in their commitment to their social cause and helps them to see how they can use their role as managers to expand the impact and reach of their organization.
We believe that being an effective supervisor is a life-long learning process. Therefore, our approach includes getting to know you as a manager, studying your organizational context, and offering an array of tools and resources that support behavioral change over time.
Components of MAG's Curriculum
Our core curriculum includes tools, skills, and information that prepare managers to:
- Analyze and shape organizational culture to support effective management
- Lead their management teams and own their power as a manager
- Identify and avoid the ten common pitfalls for managers
- Plan for improvement in the six critical functions of a manager
- Prepare to answer the three questions all staff ask and every manager needs to answer
- Identify and address the root causes behind why staff don’t get the job done
- Improve
in giving constructive feedback
- Delegate effectively
All managers need to be able to work effectively with individual people and work with, lead, and participate in teams within an organizational culture. MAG’s training model offers insights into how organizational culture and work with teams and teams of managers can support or undermine manager's ability to supervise well. For an individual manager to be consistently successful, organizational culture must support good management practices in their values, policies, and systems. For managers who lead teams of other managers or staff, the ability to track and direct the performance of those teams is essential. Our training helps managers influence their organizational culture and teams to support effective management across the entire organization.
Impact on Managers
Evaluation results of a recent training series showed that over 90% reported improvement in:
- Allocating their time when managing people
- Owning
their authority and responsibilities as a
manager
- Having hard conversations with staff they supervise
100% of participants reported improvement in:
- Identifying their
strengths as a manager
- Working with leadership and communication styles very different than their own
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