CATC offers a range of consultancies seminars and workshops for management and supervisory personnel.

Samples of these follow.

1. Self Directed Teams
A Three-Day Workshop

Purpose

To help firms and organizations break new ground in their management and supervisory practices

Teams – The Way Of The Future

In the new millennium, the workplace will be dominated by teams. Workers will need to be quick learners, more adaptable, customer focused, learn continuously and work in teams.

Driving Factors Behind The Explosion In Team Based Management

● Global competition is at our doorsteps.
● Doing more with less is not an option; it is a must.
● Jamaica rates poorly against Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Dominican Republic in worker productivity.
●  Labour constitutes between 40% and 70% of the operating cost of some manufacturing and service organizations.
● To correct the imbalance, many companies have down sized but now find that the old supervisory and management approaches can’t lead the fewer, more knowledgeable employees to produce more.
● The traditional hierarchal structure has proven to be unwieldy with too many layers which slow down communication, breeds internal politics, stifles initiative and protects employees who give mediocre performance

If your MANAGERS and SUPERVISORS do not have the latest knowledge of how to lead through teams, then they need this course

The Course

This stimulating practical and comprehensive three-day workshop will impart knowledge on a wide range of themes and topics including:

● Managing change and the competitive challenge
● Why teams?
● Benefits of team approach
● Differences between work groups and self directed teams
●  Management is not leadership
● Developing team leadership
Discussion skills
Negotiation skills
Consensus seeking skills

● Motivating others
● Elements of the team leader’s work:
Directing the work
Improving work methods
Maintaining discipline
Coaching

● Measuring results
● Creating the high performance environment
● Increasing productivity and profitability
● Developing team values
● Understanding how people learn and grow
● Developing empowered relationships
● Problem solving tools and techniques for team leaders
● First things first: Effective time management for the team leader
● Ethics and the job of team leader

Training Methodology

● Highly interactive and participative
● Harvard video business series
● Simulation exercises
● Syndicates
● Group discussions
● Comprehensive course manual

Certification

The Jamaican Institute of Management will certify each participant and give credits toward the electives portion of its accredited diploma management course.

2. Outplacement Services
How does outplacement assistance work?

Why Outplacement Counseling Services

Reengineering, restructuring and downsizing are some of the strategies organizations are using to become more efficient, effective and competitive.

These strategies cause change and change brings insecurity, anxiety, fear and dysfunctional behavior on the part of employees.

Many firms and organizations watch their operations get interrupted, their public image shattered and their goodwill depreciated because they fail to go beyond the mere provisions of the law to provide displaced employees with advise and assistance to help them make a successful transition.

There is a cost effective method for ensuring your organization maintains its image as a caring employer with the ability to attract the brightest and best; for avoiding union and societal backlash, and for avoiding demoralization of the employees left behind.

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