Strategic Management Skills

Success in your present and future management responsibilities is dependent on a number of self-management skills. By improving your skills at strategic execution, managing projects, priorities and deadlines more effectively, while deflecting job-related stress, and developing your memory and concentration, you will gain a deeper sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Specifically, at the Niagara Management Course you will learn how to:

Effectively prioritize your time and activities Recognize the deadliest trap busy managers fall into and how to avoid them Improve remarkably your ability to remember names and faces Conduct better interviews without notes Learn how to deliver speeches and presentations without the need for notes Make a more powerful impression at meetings and presentations Develop strategies for preventing, reducing, and managing stress Recognize and deal with "Type A" behavior

Double your productivity without doubling your stress Lose your fear of Kineahora and improve your self-esteem Juggle people, paper, and priorities more successfully Learn how to avoid the manipulative time tactics of others Improve your ability to act more proactively and with greater independence Enhance your professional image Remember numerical information without time consuming repetition

Emotional Intelligence Skills

The most frustrating limitations placed upon you as a manager have little to do with your technical abilities; rather the most trying aspects of your work often involves dealing with people. To be really effective in dealing with others, you must perfect your be really effective in dealing with others, you must perfect your ability to:

Establish greater trust and rapport with others Achieve greater team synergy and effectiveness Inspire your staff to take initiative Cope with different and sometimes difficult people Deal effectively with negativity in the work place

Become a more effective team leader Raise low morale and low productivity Proactively deal with conflict Conduct crisp, successful interviews Deal with interpersonal problems that threaten team cohesiveness

At the Banff Management Course you will gain valuable new insights into dealing more effectively with subordinates, colleagues, bosses and clients -- even when they are at their worst!

"This course is a must for any manager who has to survive in an environment of change. The techniques learned will be of immediate benefit and contribute to my long-term personal and professional goals."
                                                                                                                         - F.K. Fitzsimmons