Management & Leadership Academy
Management & Leadership Academy
The need to learn new information and keep abreast of trending developments make it imperative that individuals employed in organizations find ways to educate themselves without unduly depriving their companies of an inordinate amount of productive time. To facilitate this urgency, employees often undertake in-house training sessions and workshops designed to familiarize themselves with new discoveries or to learn innovative ways to achieve success in their respective roles.
However, it is not uncommon for a large percentage of employees to enroll in seminars and workshops conducted externally to achieve these and other objectives. At the Bahamas Institute of Business and Technology we have an expansive schedule of full and half-day seminars designed to expose participants to ideas and concepts currently revolutionizing management styles and strategies. Emerging trends in leadership, particularly as they relate to managing Bahamian organizations is also a major focus in these seminars.
Seminars and workshops are excellent ways to learn new information but in addition participants will also find that these short courses are ideal forums for networking with other professionals within their profession as well as with persons in other fields. It has also been reported that seminar attendance often results in motivating individuals to perform their jobs at higher levels and serve to inspire insight and vision into improved strategies and procedures and in many ways, employees return from seminars rejuvenated and highly energized to elevate organizational performance to even greater heights.
Are you interested in attending a seminar offered by the Bahamas Institute of Business and Technology? Logon to and complete the application. Available seminars are listed below:
Leadership
Applying Leadership Principles within the Bahamian Culture
This is a timely one-day seminar focusing on the application of leadership principles within the Bahamian culture. Learn form top Bahamian trainers as they guide you through the nuance of leading progressive Bahamian organizations.  Â
This seminar is recommended for supervisors, managers and all aspiring leaders. Participants will benefit from emerging leadership trends and practices applied to the nature and structure of Bahamian organizations. Topics covered include:
- Understanding how personal strengths and weaknesses affect leadership
- Learn how to align leadership intentions with goals and mission of the organization
- Guidelines for delivering visionary leadership within the culture of Bahamian organizations
- Learn how to use performance and productivity as measures of leadership effectiveness
- Common tools of effective leaders
- Use a variety of influencing styles and tactics
- How to manage conflict and belligerent employees
- Facilitate better conversations and become better at coaching others
This instructor-led course provides you with the tools you need to become a mindful, innovative leader. Register today and you’ll develop a greater self-awareness, expand your emotional intelligence skills, increase your influence, positively impact your company’s culture and learn how to manage with empathy for lasting change.
Course Title | Duration | Cost | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Applying Leadership Peinciples within the Bahamian Culture | 1 | $360 | - |
Management & Supervision
Essentials of Project Management
As a project manager, you are charged with bringing the project to fruition and achieving the final goal. Major decision-making, monitoring quality control and leading the team and staying on schedule and within the budget are the responsibilities of the project manager.
In this course you will learn how to:
- Master the art of project planning, and organize your project without omissions, mistakes or miscalculations.
- Employ best practices in techniques to secure the cooperation, support and the necessary resources to increase the probability of project success
- Use effective communications to the advantage of the project success
- Eliminate wasted time, money and effort and other factors that endanger the success of the project.
- Identify and use indispensable planning and scheduling tools that assure the project is implemented exactly as planned.
- Estimate time and costs with pinpoint accuracy, using a simple three point approach that reduces the risk of costly delays and errors.
- How to use technology to your advantage in project planning
In this seminar, you will gain practical techniques for building successful project teams, creating efficient plans and implementing effective tracking measures to ensure your projects come in on deadline and on budget. Don’t miss this power packed seminar. Enroll today!
Essentials of Time Management
This one-day time management training course explores the need for reflection, planning, organising, setting goals and responding to day-to-day activities and demands. It will also help you decide what activities give you the biggest return at work and in life. You will consider what methods of time management are possible in your situation and learn how to make time management a daily practice.
After this course you will be able to
- Manage multiple demands and priorities,
- Get more done in less time
- Keep on top of numerous projects and deadlines
- Eliminate pressure and stress from your work day.
If you’re too busy to attend, enroll today! For you, this seminar is truly a top priority!
The seminar is filled with practical how-to strategies that will ensure that you:
- Create plans that really work for today, next week, next month and next year
- Stop wasting time and get the clock working for you instead of against you
- Take control of your multiple projects, even when they're all top priorities
- Handle with ease all of the unexpected demands and unplanned situations that destroy the perfect plans
- Identify what you already do well and what you could do differently
- Prioritize strategies for deciding what will give you the biggest return at work and at home
- Understand the importance of taking time to reflect
- Learn importance of valuing yourself and how to say no
- Use delegation to multiply time
- Learn how to work with procrastination
- Stay cool, calm and collected when the pressure is overwhelming and stress threatens your effectiveness
- Use innovative methods that really keep you on track through changing priorities, last-minute alterations, uncertainty, crises and chaotic situations
