Enhanced Management Development Carousel Exercises

Target Audience – Mid-Level Managers & Team Leaders

Those managing people, projects, or departments,

Those ready to move from operational oversight to strategic leadership,

Those keen to sharpen decision-making, effective listening, prioritisation and communication
skills under pressure

Emerging Leaders & High-Potential Talent

Individuals identified for promotion or leadership pipelines

Participants in management development or succession planning programs

Those hungry for experiential learning and leadership exposure

Exercise Aim
To test the knowledge and skills and increase the confidence of managers who are expected to
deal with challenging, time critical, problematic and/or sensitive situations as part of their role.

Exercise Format
Delegates will face a series of realistic management scenarios, prior to which they will have been given information, which may be detailed, scant, inaccurate, conflicting, overly complex, or confusing.

They will have a short amount of time to plan for each ‘encounter’ with a role-player, and work out the issues, the priorities, which skills to employ, and how to best communicate their decisions or plan of action, in order to resolve or address each scenario.

Each delegate will receive feedback from their role-player and scenarios will be used to check learning in action and self-reflection as scenarios progress. All participants will get the chance to practice under pressure and also learn vicariously by observing how others handle their challenge, thereby acting as a self-development booster above and beyond their own scenario experience, reflections, and feedback

Individual Benefits
The chance to experience a range of realistic and relevant scenarios in preparation for their role or to further enhance existing skills

Learn skills that will be immediately applicable in their workplace

Gain or boost their confidence in handling a wide range of scenarios which they will face in their management role

Experience high energy, varied and engaging learning which will both motivate and focus their personal development

Gain insight from people with shared experiences and roles, creating a peer group with whom they can connect with post-course

Build emotional intelligence and self-awareness

Create a psychological resilience and robustness which will prepare them for the real world of management

Organisational Benefits
Keep their managers engaged in self-development whilst creating a culture of life-long learning

Increase the skill set and motivation of their key staff

Upskill their workforce and prepare them to work in the business, allowing leaders to work on the business

Increased trust and confidence in their managers who they can be reassured, have been through a rigorous testing process

Provide an objective, structured assessment process which can be linked to annual appraisals and workplace promotion if required

Further Information
These exercises can be linked with other Training for Reality courses beforehand; to bring managers up to a standard so they are ready for this type of assessment methodology.

They can also be tailored to scenarios most pertinent to the client’s business.

They can be delivered as a one day or multi-day package and be embedded in your wider company development programmes such as induction, recruitment, assessment, or promotion.