Your Future as a Manager:  Management Boot Camp

What you need to know to ensure you get, grow, and keep only the best employees…

It’s no secret that to succeed today, you need to get the best people into your organization, provide them with the right training, and create a motivational environment that inspires them to give you their best.  Yet despite the value most companies place on their people, few managers are given the tools and training they need to be truly successful in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, management, motivation and leadership.

Now more than ever, managers need to take a systematic approach to finding and growing their teams.  But how do you improve?  Where do you find the right candidates?  How do you make sure you are selecting the right person before you hire them?  And once you hire them, how do you train them and inspire them?

This unique seminar series, presented by Janna Mansker of Organizational Development Associates, is your chance to provide your managers with a step-by-step process for improving your most important asset:  Your people.  Your managers will leave this seminar series armed with the skills they need to bring the best people into the company, train them to be highly effective, and create a motivational team environment.   

Seminar Benefits

• Improve your hiring success rates and minimize the risk of making a bad hire.
• Learn why assessment instruments matter and how to make the most of them. 
• Capitalize on your employees’ strengths and minimize weaknesses.
• Learn to expedite training so new employees hit the ground running.
• Create a motivational environment so your employees give you and the company their best.
• Set goals that have teeth and can be easily measured.
• Provide feedback to employees that really makes a difference in their performance.

2006 Seminar Dates
September 18-19                              Begin with Excellence  (Recruiting & Hiring)  
October 12                                        K.A.S.H.   (Training New Employees)
November 8-9                                   Controlling Excellence  (Managing & Motivating)       

Location and Cost
The seminars will be held in Atlanta, Georgia at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.  The hotel is located in Buckhead and is within walking distance of excellent shopping, dining, and entertainment. 
The fee for each seminar is $1,200 per attendee.  Participants are responsible for their own air travel, ground transportation, accommodations and meals.

Registration
Please complete the enclosed form and fax it to 404 842-0129.  Upon registration we will send you a written confirmation package including a list of nearby hotels, directions to the event, and other relevant details.

Begin with Excellence  (September 18-19)

One of the key responsibilities of every manager is to build a team of outstanding employees that can help the organization reach its goals.  This course provides managers with a professional, step-by-step process for recruiting, interviewing and hiring top-notch people.  Attendees will learn how to:

• Develop target profiles that define both the job to be filled and the ideal candidate.
• Network to find excellent prospects.
• Conduct thorough interviews to help uncover a candidate’s true strengths, weaknesses and potential.
• Ask better interview questions and more effectively evaluate candidate answers.
• Utilize a behavioral compatibility assessment tool (Berke Assessment) to help determine how candidates fit with job requirements.
• Obtain more candid feedback from references.
• Make final hiring decisions and establish expectations with new team members.

K.A.S.H.  (October 12)

Once managers have hired outstanding people, their next responsibility is to give their new team members the tools they need to be successful.  This seminar focuses on the skills needed to develop and implement job-specific training for new hires.  Participants will learn how to:

• Identify the Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Habits a trainee needs.
• Develop easy-to-administer training modules that can be used for individual, group and cross training.
• Measure the progress of each person’s training
• Utilize a variety of teaching techniques to be a more effective trainer.
• Help new hires understand the roles of their co-workers throughout the company and begin developing strong working relationships.
• Plan a great first day for new team members.
• Develop and communicate criteria for assessing performance during the first 90 days.

Controlling Excellence  (November 8-9)

Effectively managing, motivating and developing team members are skills crucial to organizational success.  Once managers have hired top-notch people and provided them with strong training, their next challenge is guiding their employees to perform at the highest possible level.  In this seminar, attendees will learn how to:

• Enhance their communication skills and provide better feedback to team members.
• Help employees establish and achieve goals.
• Increase employee retention rates and lower turnover.
• Turn problem bringers into problem solvers.
• Conduct performance-enhancing reviews on team members.
• Understand what drives their people to perform and create individual motivational environments for each employee.
• Establish and implement career paths for team members.
• Understand team dynamics and enhance the level of teamwork within the department