Business Management Skills

• Business Analysis:
  Apply industry standard technique of business modeling and data modeling.
  Design robust reliable and relevant systems that meet the needs of your users.
  Identify opportunities and problem areas within a business environment.
  Model and assess the impact the impact of any proposed changes to a business system.
  Optimize the storage and processing of information within a business system
  
• Project Management:
  Clarify project objectives and build realistic schedule and cost predictions.
  Develop detailed plans incorporating PERT charts and critical path analysis.
  Build an effective project team and address the conflicting demands placed on it.
  Implement effective reporting quality and change regimes for each project initiative.
  Apply proven techniques including variance and EVA to measure project progress.
  
• Time Management:
  Select the management system best suited to your personality and your job.
  Prioritize your goals and create more time for effective decision making.
  Empower others by using the five key principles of delegation.
  Regain control by actively managing interruptions phone calls and email.
  Optimize team workflow using activity networks float and critical path analysis.
  
• Successful Meetings:
  Develop and use an agenda to lead discussions of the meetings key objectives
  Understand the politics of meeting with subordinates peers or superiors
  Identify personality types and target your own message for maximum impact
  Encourage participation so that all decisions made are owned by the group.
  Tactfully prevent others from taking control or holding up progress.
  
• Successful Negotiating:
  Maximize your advantage before negotiations even begin.
  Make the best possible opening one that is both tough and credible.
  Become expert in the use of bargaining tactics and concession trading
  Master the win / win and distributive approaches to get the best deal possible.
  Deal effectively with last minute tactical maneuvers and close the deal.
  
• Presentation and Public speaking:
  Identify the key points tat will communicate your message most effectively.
  Profile your audience in advance, allowing you to fine tune your delivery.
  Adopt a positive attitude, control your nerves and present with confidence.
  Use high-impact visual aids to clarify and reinforce your key points.
  Handle awkward questions and deal effectively with a hostile audience.
  
• Performance Management:
  Learn how to measure business success. Understand what to measure and how to measure it.
  Learn to create specific, performance management criteria for your business.
  Discover how to set realistic, stretching goals and learn how to motivate your team to achieve them.
  Use "real world" tools to manage and improve the performance in your company.
  
• Planning & Organising:
  Learn how to plan and organise for maximum effectiveness and maximum motivation.
  Discover tools to unlock productivity and quality Improvement.
  Learn how to create work flowcharts and how to analyse your processes.
  Use real "world tools" to get you and your team working together-to, improve the overall effectiveness and profitability of your business.
  
• Motivation & Teamwork:
  Learn about what motivates people to strive for excellence and just as importantly, what stops them
  Identify what style of team pest suits your organisation.
  Discover how to turn your people into a high performing team.
  Use "real world" tools to increase the motivation and teamwork in your business.