Leadership Management Skills

In today's highly competitive and changing business environment, long-term business success depends upon maximizing the value of your people. To do so, managers must have the business, management and interpersonal skills to lead successfully, overcome barriers and raise team performance.

Our research has shown that it is very rare to find any of the proficiencies of leading, managing and team working operating in isolation. The business dynamics of group inter-action demand that everyone in a management role has to understand and be practised at an agility of style, and be capable of responding to a myriad of situations, almost as a matter of routine.

No two management tasks are absolutely identical and no two teams are identical. They require different solutions, processes and interactions, which take into account the business issues faced and the performance improvement that is required. For example, managing the dynamics of a virtual team require using traditional interpersonal skills in a totally new way, using technology as the interface. Consequently the style of leadership and team interactions differs as dynamically as does the management challenge and its solution.

The key characteristics of MaST's LeadershipSolutions™ are that it:

• Is focused upon the issues facing the business and the required improvement in performance
• Positively improves the ability to lead, manage and teamwork
• Is modular in design, so that it can be rapidly tailored to the demands of your business
• Is designed to reflect the career path of today's business manager as they evolve from team leader through to be in charge of a strategic business unit
• Is founded upon a carefully researched set of competencies; which with appropriate review diagnostics, can deliver real results for the business
• To be effective, leader interaction and style has to be adaptive, responsive and agile to deal with both the context and the current environment.

Leading, Managing and Team Working

MaST's Leadership Skills Training & Management Development aims are...

• To raise the quality of leading, managing and team working in business at all levels
• To help people discover and develop leading, managing and team working capabilities

MaST International has been researching, designing and delivering programmes to build leading, managing and team working skills for over 30 years.

Recent MaST research has clarified the proficiencies leaders, managers and team workers need to operate effectively in today's demanding business climate, either in a virtual team environment or in a more traditional co-existing environment.

These research findings have enabled us to develop MaST LeadershipSolutions - a pragmatic, business issue driven and competency based approach to leading, managing and team working, acknowledging that a good leader also needs a mix of good management processes and a supportive and motivated team.

The MaST LeadershipSolutions range of modules encompass sound and well-tested principles of leadership supported by good management and effective team working skills.

The MaST Approach focuses on the key elements which are:

Leadership - inspiring people to take a journey and creating change.

Management - building the processes, methods and disciplines to ensure achievement.

Team Working - harnessing the energy created from the diversity of any team.

Blending all these elements creates the best mix of proficiencies which enable business objectives to be pursued more effectively.

Individuals require a combination of leading, managing and team working skills which differ depending on experience and management level within the company. MaST LeadershipSolutions has been specifically designed to reflect this.

Using the analogy that the Propeller Model represents the organisation, the propeller does not need equal amounts of leading, managing and team working in order for it to turn, or to create operational balance. The shape of the propeller is determined by the organisational needs and the situation prevailing at the time. A Mast diagnostic defines the current balance in your organisation, providing focus for future development.

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