Overview
This training in kind management brings your managers together for 2 days, face-to-face, to develop a common management approach within your organisation. Founded on mutual knowledge between the managers, this common foundation also makes it easier to welcome new managers.
Why choose the Managing with kindness and high standards course?
Kindness is not laxity: the course aims for the balance between kindness and high standards, two qualities that your managers learn to hold together rather than set against each other. It also engages them in a reflection on the balance between high standards, clear-sightedness and trust, in order to set a clear framework without giving up on listening, and to be demanding without losing the relationship that moves a team forward.
They work on fair authority, assertiveness, supporting their team members' progress and providing support to their teams in the face of tensions; the detail of the programme's three sequences appears in the Curriculum tab.
A common management approach for your teams
Bringing together the managers of a single organisation around a shared way of managing makes the collective day-to-day easier, as it does the arrival of a new manager, who then inherits reference points already known to their peers. The course is built from the successes and difficulties that participants actually experience, which makes it directly applicable in work situations as soon as they return to their role. It forms part of the offering of Excelia Business School's Executive Education Centre, designed to meet the continuing education needs of organisations.
Two days to leave with tools
The course takes place over 2 days, or 14 hours, face-to-face, with active pedagogy: numerous practical scenarios, analysed in groups, supplemented by individual tests and recommendations for each participant. Your managers leave with concrete tools to embody a balanced managerial stance, which they can put to use as soon as they return to their role. On the main management styles, the dedicated article sets out the reference points that make it possible to compare this approach with the others.
The skills targeted
At the end of the course, your managers will be able to:
- Step back from their management style
- Strengthen their communication and their stance as a manager
- Give meaning, set a framework and support teams with the right touch
- Handle difficult situations and prevent stress
- Develop balanced management, combining kindness and high standards
- Build a collective dynamic based on trust and cooperation
These six objectives largely overlap with the skills expected of a manager, which they help to consolidate in professionals already in post.
Curriculum
The course takes place over 2 days, or 14 hours, face-to-face. It is dedicated to fair management, positive psychology and the kind stance, and is delivered in-company, within your organisation.
How you learn
The course combines several teaching methods, designed to anchor learning in day-to-day management:
- An in-depth collection of participants' successes and difficulties, to build a course that can be applied in work situations
- Theoretical input and course materials
- Individual tests
- Individual recommendations
- Numerous practical scenarios, analysed in groups
- Active pedagogy
Three sequences to build your managerial balance
The programme is organised into three sequences, which range from self-awareness to supporting the team in the face of tensions, by way of fair authority and assertiveness. Each one unfolds below.
Know yourself to find the right balance
Explore the fundamentals, understand the importance of self-awareness and engage in a reflection on the balance between high standards, clear-sightedness and trust.
You come away with a better understanding of your own management style, the starting point for the rest of the programme.
Module titles
- Fair management
- Positive psychology
- The kind stance
- Self-awareness
Fair authority and assertiveness
Deepen your managerial skills by working in particular on fair authority, assertiveness and supporting progress.
This second sequence builds up your fair authority and your assertiveness, so that you support your team's progress without listening any less.
Module titles
- Fair authority
- Assertiveness
- Supporting progress
Support the team in the face of tensions
You will learn to support your team members in the face of tensions and difficulties, by adopting a cooperative, solution-focused approach and by valuing emotions, successes and sustainable performance.
How do you defuse a tension without sacrificing the team's performance? You leave with concrete reference points, to put to use as soon as you return to your role.
Module titles
- Support your team members in the face of tensions and difficulties
- A cooperative, solution-focused approach
- Value emotions, successes and sustainable performance
Funding
The Managing with kindness and high standards course is delivered in-company, on quotation, for 2 days, or 14 hours, face-to-face.
How to fund it
Two schemes make it possible to fund this course for your managers:
- The skills development plan, drawn on by your company
- An OPCO (skills operator), approached by your company
What your team gains from it
Built from your managers' real situations, the course gives them reference points to give meaning, set a framework and support their teams with the right touch, and to handle difficult situations and prevent stress. It also establishes among them a shared way of managing, which makes it easier to welcome new managers. For a programme designed entirely around your organisation, Excelia Business School's tailor-made in-company training goes further.
At Excelia Executive Education, we offer personalised support to help every profile — company, employee, self-employed person or public sector employee — to make their training projects a reality by drawing on the most suitable funding schemes.
FAQ
Are kindness and high standards compatible in management?
Yes. The balance between the two is precisely the subject of the Managing with kindness and high standards course, which works on high standards, clear-sightedness and trust, as well as fair authority, assertiveness and supporting progress.
Who is the Managing with kindness and high standards course for?
It is aimed at managers, with no prerequisites required.
How long does the Managing with kindness and high standards course last?
The course lasts 2 days, or 14 hours, face-to-face.
Can the Managing with kindness and high standards course be organised for your managers?
Yes. It is delivered in-company, on quotation, and is built from the successes and difficulties of the participants.
How can the Managing with kindness and high standards course be funded?
It can be funded by the company's skills development plan or by an OPCO (skills operator). The fee is set on quotation.
What do you take away from the Managing with kindness and high standards course?
Participants leave with concrete tools to embody a balanced managerial stance, along with individual recommendations drawn from the tests carried out during the course. They also consolidate the managerial skills targeted by the programme, between kindness and high standards.
Admissions
Target audience
Managers.
Prerequisites
- No prerequisites required.
