How Do Athena Courses Develop Your Management Skills?

Whether you are new to management or have years of experience, we can help...

In order to have a flexible, efficient workforce, today's managers are moving from traditional management styles and are appreciating the benefits of a coaching approach.

At Athena, we place a lot of importance on and developing the essential human skills needed to be an effective manager.

For example:

• effective communication
• having an awareness of and understanding how we (and others) process information and how this impacts responses and behaviours
• the ability to acquire knowledge or skills
• developing accountability, responsibility and ownership of setting empowering goals, identifying the challenges and knowing how to work through these.

Human skills have been recognised to have the greatest impact on results when managing and leading teams, for example, in the areas of retention, motivation, development and business outcomes.  

Once mastered, you can then role model these life-enhancing skills to others!
 

Encouraging and empowering employees to identify solutions themselves not only develops their own problem-solving skills but ensures that they are better equipped for the future. This provides them with the right tools and self-confidence to face increasingly diverse projects, not to mention advancement within their company.

The benefits of a coaching culture are based around practices that promote ownership, accountability and responsibility for learning and development. It equips you with a fundamental understanding and appreciation of the skills of coaching, enabling you to integrate these principles into both work and life goals. Coaching has the effect of encouraging individual growth, engagement and accountability which, in turn, fosters a growth mindset.

 

With a coaching mindset, organisations can see greater innovation and growth. The encouragement of individuals to identify solutions, as opposed to requiring direction, helps instil a greater sense of fulfilment and pride, in turn positively propelling an organisation forward.