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25 top tips for managing creative people

This online management training course gives you the 25 Top Tips and techniques you really need to lead, inspire and manage your people effectively.  Delivered by our lead management trainer, the course explains the essential steps to optimise your teams’ productivity, especially if you work in the creative, media, marketing or communications sectors. From time management and planning through to leadership and motivation, this e-learning course from ContentETC will instantly refresh and reinvigorate your management style!

Suitable for:

Any manager working in the creative industry, including media, public relations, communications, advertising, marketing, and design.

You will learn:

  • How to lead an effective team
  • The secrets of proven motivational techniques
  • What, how and when to communicate
  • How to run a productive meeting
  • The value of thinking time and decisive action
  • Proven supervision and delegation skills
  • The management traps to avoid
  • How to work better with your boss

...and much more, including:
 
 Using Skills, Knowledge, Attitudes and Habits to rate people
 Knowing what people expect of you
 Looking after your own motivation
 Recognising the team life cycle
 The 3-eyed manager
 Meetings and the value of clarification
 Reporting up!
 Which management tools to use
 
 Watching for burnout
 Giving yourself thinking time
 Decision making
 The importance of delegation
 Focusing on "3"
.

Top tips and checklists

 The course includes up-to-date examples, checklists, and our famous Top Tips so you can be sure of understanding and applying every single part of this invaluable programme.
  

Timing: You can dip in and out of this e-learning course as often as you like.  It should take you approximately 30-45 minutes in total to complete.  You can work at your own pace and go back at any time.

If you have any queries, we’d be delighted to help, just email us.

Please note that this course is intended for speakers of English.

Price

25 top tips for managing creative people is just £25 + VAT per user * which gives you unlimited access to the course for one month.

* Discounted rates for multiple users are available.  The discount applies to this course or a mix of e-learning courses.

 

Interested?

You can:

. Buy this e-learning course now

. Try e-learning before you buy

. Meet the trainer, Richard Sharpe 

. Email us to buy this e-learning course or discuss bringing it into your company for multiple e-learning users

. See our face-to-face training options for management skills

10% off your first order!
Register now to receive your discount voucher.
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