Apologies for cross posting
There are still places on the Understanding Your Organisation and Working Well Together
courses. Please note that bookings for these events close at 4pm tomorrow (22/05/2009).
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08/06/2009
Understanding your organisation - NEW for 2009
Time: 10:00 - 16:30
Venue: MMU - Library Seminar Room, Aytoun Library, Business School, Manchester
Tutor: Sharon Grant
Charges
NoWAL Members: £90
External Delegates: £150
Book a place: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/middle_management.php?action=view&sql_id=9
"Organizational culture is the key to organizational excellence... and the function of
leadership is the creation and management of culture." Edgar Schein
Understanding your organisation and the context in which it operates is a critically
important capability for managers. It’s essential for strategic planning, change
management, for promoting organisational learning and for improving efficiency and
effectiveness.
In this interactive session you’ll have the opportunity to learn some simple tools for
structuring what you already know about the organisation’s environment and identify gaps
to be filled; draft a stakeholder analysis; diagnose organisational culture; and consider
how you can improve or sustain the best elements of this culture.
The aim of this event is to develop participants’ ability to ‘read’ their
organisation’s context, culture and current challenges. By the end participants should
be able to:
- Outline the features of the organisation’s environment that are likely to have a
significant impact on its future.
- Identify the organisation’s stakeholders and say what their main interests are.
- Use some simple models to critically evaluate their own organisation’s culture(s) and
outline the implications of this for their work.
Book a place: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/middle_management.php?action=view&sql_id=9
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22/06/2009
Working well together: understanding work preferences - NEW for 2009
Time: 10:00 - 16:30
Venue: University of Salford - Clifford Whitworth Library - Salford
Tutor: Max Rawlings
Charges
NoWAL Members: £90
External Delegates: £150
Book a place: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/middle_management.php?action=view&sql_id=10
‘Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is
success.’
Henry Ford (1863 – 1947)
Enabling people to work productively together is a key responsibility of a manager’s
role. Understanding how people like to work helps the manager to allocate work and
motivate staff. This session is based on the work of Margerison and McCann and their Team
Management Wheel which is designed to show the major roles and work areas that need to be
covered by a team.
Each delegate will complete a questionnaire before the event which explores the
following:
- How you prefer to relate with others
- How you prefer to gather and use information
- How you prefer to take decisions
- How you prefer to organise yourself and others
This will produce a Team Management Profile which will give insight into how you prefer
to work and how you are likely to interact with others in the workplace. It provides
information which can help to identify strengths and weaknesses and gives teams a
framework and a common language for working together more effectively.
Whilst managers attending this session will primarily gain insight into their own work
preferences and the implications of that for their teams, it may be possible however for
their teams to access the Profile outside of this workshop by private arrangement with the
facilitator.
Book a place: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/middle_management.php?action=view&sql_id=10
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Gil Young
NoWAL Support Officer
NoWAL: Widening access to library resources and improving learning and information
support services through innovation, influence and partnership.
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