Presentation of the Management Skills Course

Welcome to the Management Skills Course!!! It’s great to have you all on board.

This is a course that kicks off the Environment and Energy Post Grad Course.  So why start with this course? It’s quite easy really. What we are going to learn in the coming weeks are the most basic skills of how to present, to lead and to negotiate effectively. These, as opposed to many of the skills you will have learnt in previous courses and will learn during your post-grad course here at the EOI, are human subjects. They are not clear equations with one correct answer, nor are they black and white by nature. These are huge grey areas but grey areas that make the difference. These are areas with human connection. We, as professionals, are always going to come into contact with other humans. They may be team members, subordinates, suppliers, clients, bosses, pressure groups, union representatives, investors or 100 other things. We may have the greatest service or product however if we fail in effectiveness with the way we connect with humans we will never be able to optimize what we offer as professionals or as product or service. We start this post-grad course with these managerial skills as they can be applied to all future learning at the EOI.

One thing that we are trying to achieve here at the EOI is varied learning methods. In the Managerial Skills course, especially, we are committed to converting theory into your reality. For this reason we will be concentrating heavily on practical case studies to bring the theory into your world, to apply it to your circumstances. The graph below supports our objective to use teaching methods that optimize the students’ learning, long term.

Figures and Statistics take from “Coaching For Performance” By Sir John Whitmore- Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 3rd Revised edition (12 Mar 2002)

Not only are we confined to the classroom but we also make use of online learning and forums as well as completing some tasks as groups to reinforce the idea of dealing with humans to enhance our capacity as professionals.

There will be more from me at a later date but, for now, I am please to say that I’m feeling enthusiastic about this course. For those who already have great human skills there will be new techniques and knowledge to be garnered and for those that feel that they have no human skills at all, this course will help you see what is possible and give you new perspective on what you are able to achieve. For me, what makes me tick is seeing people become better and seeing how their new possibilities dawn on them. We are going to have a great time.

Bring lots of enthusiasm and motivation. Be prepared to try things you’ve never tried and have a think about this quote from the very wise, Mr Abraham Lincoln.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN – (1809 – 1865)

16th President of the U.S.A-

In my courses this will be a recurring theme. Whether you are a presenter, a negotiator or leader, let’s make sure we have the attitude to be the best we can be.

See you all on Monday the 24^th!!!

Chris Metcalfe

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