Why Attend This Training Course?

Middle managers make up the largest managerial layer in an organization. Middle managers are responsible to those above them and those below them. They head a variety of departments and projects. In order for a company to operate smoothly, it is essential that those in middle management be committed to the goals of the organization and they understand how to effectively execute these goals. It is crucial for businesses to focus on these essential managers and provide them with the opportunities to succeed. No matter the organization’s structure or size, it will benefit from employing well-trained middle managers.

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What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

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Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This training course is for all executive and middle management occupants in all public institutions, as well as private organizations, who are willing to be exposed the most up-to-date management skills for effective productivity and better managing many tasks efficiently.

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What Are The Training Course Objectives?

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. With that in mind, let’s review our goals for today.

• Define management

• Understand ethics in the workplace

• Manage information and make decisions

• Be familiar with the control process

• Enhance essential managerial skills for middle management and executive occupants

• Use organizational strategies to facilitate change

• Create structures and processes to manage teams

• Manage as a leader

• Comprehend advanced managerial methods to solve work problems

• Make appropriate decisions in addition to the refinement and enrichment of behavioral and leadership skills

• Enhance work connections skills leading teamwork and upgrade the performance standards

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What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Introduction to Management

• What is Management?

• What do middle managers do?

• What does it take to be a manager?

• Why does management matter?

• Ethics and social responsibility

• What is/isn’t ethical workplace behavior

• How to make ethical decisions

• What is social responsibility?

Exclusive Modern Concept of Management Process

• Middle management role and administrative organization

• Internal and External surrounding impact and circumstances

• Fundamental problems in the administrative work

• Managing Information

• Why Information Matters

• Strategic Importance of Information

• Characteristics and Costs of Useful Information

• Getting and Sharing Information

• Questions and Answers

Rationalize Resources and Capabilities to Achieve Maximum Return during Changing Circumstances

• Basic duties of the middle management

• Setting goals

• Planning and setting work programs

• Follow-up and implementation

• Decision making and handling deviations

• Effective manager leadership and behavioral skills

• Analysis of managers leadership types

• Enhancing and enriching leadership skills (Effective leader behavior)

• Case Study (I) 

Administrative Liaison and Reciprocity Relations

• Work motivation and stimulation

• Manager role in enhancing human effectiveness

• Innovative and creative thinking its role in innovative decision-making

• Decision-making

  • What is rational decision-making?

  • Steps to rational decision-making

  • Limits to rational decision-making

  • Improving decision-making

• Control

• Basics of control

• The control process

• Is control necessary or possible?

• How and what to control

• Control methods

• Organizational strategy

• Basics of organizational strategy

• Sustainable competitive advantage

• Strategy-making process

• Corporate, industry, firm level strategies

Modern Methods to Assess Performance through Objectives and Results

• Assess the total performance goals and results

• Evaluate staff performance through objectives and results

• Lab of practicing the administrative process and managing teamwork

• Manager role in managing change and development

• Innovation and change

• Organizational innovation

• Why innovation matters

• Managing innovation

• Organizational change

• Why change occurs and why it matters

• Managing change

• Case study (II)

Organizational Structures and Process

• Departmentalization

• Organizational authority

• Job design

• Designing organizational process

• Managing teams

• The good and the bad of using teams

• Kinds of teams

• Work team characteristics

• Enhancing work team effectiveness

• Steps

• Open discussion

Motivation and Leadership

• Basics of motivation

• Equity theory

• Expectancy theory

• What is leadership?

• Situational leadership

• Strategic leadership

ACAD Professional Certificate - APC

ACAD Training & Consulting uses the power of its network to bring about positive, tangible change. We champion the training courses profession and the interests of individuals, engaged in that profession, for the benefit of all. ACAD Professional Certificates are designed for those who are enthusiastic to challenge themselves to reach the extra mile. Participants who fully attend an APC course and successfully pass the exam on the last training day, will receive an ACAD Professional Certificate (APC). APC are regionally recognized and can be esteemed when applying for more senior roles in Egypt and MENA region.

Exam Details:
Duration: 1 hour | Multiple Choice | Closed book | Pass mark: 65%