MEET (Manager Education and Engagement Training)
Overview
People managers must aim to co-create a working environment that hopes to both engage and energize staff towards high-levels of engagement and performance. Across multiple moments every day, managers are focused on building trust, holding employees accountable, and providing opportunities for growth and development, and the MEET program focuses on skill building in these areas.
Trust is the foundational requirement; Trust is most effectively built via regularly occurring one-on-one meetings, as well as in team meetings. Feedback uses the past to illustrate choices that might deliver better possible future outcomes and give additional clarity on expectations. Managers create opportunities for growth and development via delegation and coaching conversations to advise, guide, and mentor the person towards future professional success and on-going work-related opportunities to learn. Great leaders and managers create a motivating and engaging environment where people choose to “show up” at work in a way that positively adds to performance outcomes, impact on others, and grows influence inside the organization.
Who Would Benefit
This program is intended for all managers at Wellesley.
Program Details
The workshops will run for four session and will meet every third Thursday for 2.5 hours from 9:00am to 11:30m
Thursday, January 18, 2024 (9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
- Understanding your role as a manager.
- Learning the key drivers of engagement and performance.
- The 3-circle Managment Model where staff actively choose to engage in the workplace and deliver high performance.
Thursday, February 8, 2024 (9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
- Coping strategies for stresses of management (multiple conflicts of priorities, roles, people), then a conversation around how managers are often selected based on being strong in their functional expertise, but 90% of being a good manager is about emotional intelligence.
- Practice with the everyday actions managers must take to create an environment where staff chooses to deliver extraordinary performance (building the relationship, delegating work and setting expectations, giving impactful feedback on performance, and coaching for improved future performance) -- all put to practice with intensive role-play exercises.
- Discussion of situational leadership theory -- i.e., each staff member will need to be managed differently depending on their unique personality, their unique KSA’s, and the task at hand.
Thursday, February 29, 2024 (9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
- How maximize the opportunity for individual and organizational growth vis delegation.
- How to effectively give meaningful feedback.
- Explore Hybrid Workforce Management.
Thursday, March 21, 2024 (9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
- Coach for 'Next Step' growth.
- Discuss situational leadership theory -- i.e., each staff member will need to be managed differently.
- Inclusive and Individualized approaches for collaboration.
