Management course recommendation?

[RedvGreen]

My main profession is due to reach the next level, moving out of being a senior officer and on to low level management. As the environment that we work in is challenging and adversarial (namely colleagues!) I apparently fit the bill for the person they want to lead at entry level management, however, through various tests and psych reviews it has been identified that I could benefit from some leadership/assertiveness training.

Whilst there are very few out there specific to this subject area, are there any all-round management courses which have good modules in this area contained within?

For information I don't need any more degrees as I already have two, but don't have any issue with Certificate/Diploma. At a push I could do MBA but I'd rather not commit so much time into this. Work will be paying for the training.

 

[dowie]

If they're going to pay for it then might as well get yourself a free MBA!

Not sure what you're really after, short courses flogged by training companies can contain all sorts of nonsense from "NLP trainers" to getting you to sit BS tests like Meyers-Briggs and classify you as one of 16 personalities etc..etc.. big waste of money.

The best "soft skills" training I ever attended via work was conducted in house in the conference rooms and involved two professional actors coming in and going through a load of exercises... even basic things like posture, how to stand etc.. we'd give presentations that were recorded and played back - they'd critique then we'd repeat the exercise etc..etc..

I reckon doing some acting training in your spare time or perhaps going to something like toastmasters over time (some people get quite into this one) will be better for the assertiveness side of things some short course. Toastmasters will give some attention to the leadership side of things too, acting training obviously isn't specifically focused on leadership though you will play around with status etc.. it can certainly help with assertiveness and with any sort of interactions or presentations, pitches to clients etc..etc..

https://www.toastmasters.org/about/all-about-toastmasters