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OUR VIEW ON MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

Kontura carry out management and leadership development in the format of well-targeted, longer or shorter programmes, in tune with the customer’s strategic intentions and with unusually well-documented effects.

We act as a “dialogue partner”, in particular situations or over a longer time, in order to address issues regarding personal leadership, the business, personnel, or ongoing or future change.

At Kontura we are also process consultants to management teams providing support in development processes and sorting out e.g. roles, relationships, work focus, frames and structures, as well as promoting creative diversity.

WHEN IS MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT NEEDED?

Dialogue partner

Managers and other key people feel that they need the support of a “dialogue partner” in their development, or need to discuss about business, personnel, and change issues.

Development

Managers need a boost in their development in order to ensure the organization’s development and to meet future challenges.

Cooperation

The management team is “idling”, i.e. their cooperation needs developing, and its effectiveness needs improvement.

MANAGEMENT TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Each mission is unique. There is no template for the events in groups. Management teams have different levels of development and aspirations. Our role is to start from the group’s situation and the issues that is most important. As process consultants, we want to create an engaging pedagogy and a dialogue climate which opens to the important issues.

Group development is primarily about getting the group to act in a manner that promotes the activities and the participants in developing confidence and commitment to their tasks. Operational objectives, goals, organization, frames, rules, etc. creates a clarity of what the group should focus on. A working group is both a ”classic” group of conscious and unconscious processes and a team that, at best, seems like a well-tuned team to solve a common task.

Governing for a given group of development projects will be, in addition to the structures which the group operates within, as well as the group’s level of maturity. We relate to each other and our data in ways that reflect the level of development groups are currently found on. It is important to understand this process and deal with each step as not to deadlock occurs.

OUR KEYS TO DEVELOPMENT

You own your own development

You know best what you need to develop. Based on your strengths and weaknesses, you will learn and afterwards you trial and error in your own working area. Along with others, you discuss your experiences and then you will try again. You are going to customize received materials to your own working situation.

From words to action

Fundamentally for every program and seminar are words turning into concrete actions and new understandings which develop your daily leadership. You transfer your learning to your own reality’s questions and issues.

Power through reflection

Reflection is underestimated. We create room for reflection, by yourself and in group. This decreases the gap between education and application. Together with others you discuss your situation at “home” and compare experiences from different businesses. The reflection gives you depth and quality in the work.

The connection as driving force

To understand why something has to be done and how it affects other parts of the business in the organization are important. The managers can together in an organization create connections in the business to meet the needs from the customers. This leads to a culture and a work environment which form the basis for effective processes. The manager’s ability to communicate is vital.

Broadened perspectives that enrich

New perspectives and experiences broadens your view on the world around as well in how you understand “reality”, which will enrich your everyday lifeas manager. During our programmes and seminars you will get valuable occasions to expand your views in more than one way.

MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

Sustainable Managers® is a management programme where you are constantly being challenged with tasks that make you develop. We help you think on new lines and look at your role as manager in a new way. You broaden your perspectives and be inspired by managers from other types of organizations. Words turn into actions in your everyday life. You simply build knowledge from your own experiences, increase your ability to manage people and an organization, create control and follow up results – briefly management in the best way.

In September 2009 we started our first Open Programme. In the new programme, Sustainable Managers®, we added one day which gives a 13-day programme divided in seven workshops over one year. All our programmes and seminars are based on two things – “people often know more than they believe” and Kontura’s keys to success.

In the Open Programme you meet managers from different businesses and organizations. It helps you to broaden your knowledge about and understanding for how others are working with their business. You work in small groups with a maximum of 10 people.

We can also deliver customized internal Management Developing Programmes based on Sustainable Managers®. The programme is then framed to work against the strategical goal of the organization. No matter what type of goal, we will deliver significant, positive results.

The structure of the Open and the Internal Programme is the same. What’s different is the goals you are working against. In the Open Programmes, the content of the programme is the frame and the managers work within this against their own goals. Meanwhile the Internal Programmes, the frame is set after the organization’s strategical goals. Later on every manager set their own development goals within these frames. The pedagogical model we are working with gives the effects that we show. Every workshop has a subject. We discuss, learn and practice different approaches. You get concrete tools and an increased understanding of the subject. Between the workshops you put what you learned into practice. When you come back to the next workshop you will have a follow-up which connects your learning.

PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION

Sustainable Managers® is a 1 year management programme in seven workshops, a total of thirteen days.

Between the workshops you will recieve “home work” to distinctly connect your own development with your own business and your co-workers.

Workshop 1 and the concluding network meeting include 1 day, the others 2 days.

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Workshop 1 – Sustainable Managers® (1 day)

Here we frame the programme and going through pedagogy, the content of the workshops and the home work, the usage of Estimation Scheme both as “effect measure” and as “trip measure” for your development etc. Together we discuss your and our expectations on the programme and each other.

Workshop 2 – Responsibilities in the leadership

Workshop 1 and 2 become platforms for the continuing working process. Workshop 2 sets the connection in what you as manager work in – the surrounding world, business and organizational management, the linking between managers within the organization, important motvational aspects of other people, etc. We discuss what goals you and your manager set as well as the responsibilities and processes which are important for you to success with the mission of become a Sustainable Manager.

Workshop 3 – My leadership

In this workshop your personal leadership is in focus. You identify and work with the most important challenges in your work partly in consideration to the 360°-estimation in the Manager Profile® and partly to one deeper interview with your manager. We also talk about which role self-esteem, self-image, etc. has in your leadership.

Workshop 4 – The Dialogue - challenging conversations

We will look at different types of conversations, as tools in the manager role. I small groups you coach each other and develop actions focusing on solving real situations which you and the other managers brought. You practice approaches and action possibilities in difficult conversations and when it is time to set limits. We also take a look at your way to solve conflicts.

Workshop 5 – Same and different

With help from our development tool “Team Management Profile” (TMP) we make your knowledge about personal motive forces in the work deeper. This helps you to better understand how people’s difference can create creative solutions and productive results. We also work through how you prepare for and handle different ractions from your co-workers. From a motive force and difference perspective you learn more about culture. The culture might in a very decisive way promote an organization but also keep bad habits and slow down necessary change processes.

Workshop 6 – Work in a change process

How does the interaction between everybody involved work in bigger change processes? Here you have a real life change process in mind which you are facing or are a part of. In this part you will work through a method for a clear planning and distribution of responsibility for the process within the organization. You also recieve examples of tools which reveals the driving force in the different parts of the organization as well as measure methods which show how you use the results that have been accomplished. Briefly you develop your skills in and to handle important moments and scenarios of effective change processes.

Workshop 7 – The importance of balance for sustainability

During day 1 your manager visits the programme. Together with your managers you will come up with strategies to develop sustainability in the manager role in each organization. During day 2 you work with the balance between different fields in your life situation. Finally you make an action plan for your future development towards a sustainable leadership.