Session Description:
Managers in organisations of all shapes and sizes have encountered significant challenges over the last few years in doing just that - managing. Dispersed workers, multi-generational workforces, political uncertainty, and stagnant economies have made the actual practice of managing more complex and difficult.
In this session we will analyse some of the factors causing the challenges managers currently face and develop a blueprint of best practice that attendees can take away, populating their own management action plan.
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the significant of the VUCA environment we are currently
- managing within and the impact it has had on their management practice.
- Understand the importance of leadership, management, and coaching.
- And the role each plays in becoming a better manager.
- Critique the qualities of a great manager and how participants currently
- perform.
- Develop and individual action plan for change and improvement.
Attendee Profile:
This session is well-suited to anyone who manages people in their organisation – or is about to – and wishes to sharpen their management practice and capabilities.
Session Lead: Andrew Thomas FRSA FIoL
Andrew is an experienced strategic advisor, business coach and mentor he has worked with companies from start-up to conglomerate, across a number of verticals providing support to achieve high growth.
Andrew’s corporate experience extends back over thirty years having joined BMP DDB in London in the late eighties, after completing five years as a captain in the Army. He spent most of career working at the global advertising agency McCann-Erickson in London and Manchester.
Joining the management team at ECI Ventures backed Bounty Group in 2005, he played a key role in developing the digital offering, culminating in the business sale to the publicly listed Canadian company Kaboose.
On leaving Bounty at the end of 2008 Andrew established himself as a digital transformation coach, with the aim of helping individuals and organisations thrive in the digital economy.
As a cohort facilitator and growth expert on the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme UK run by University of Oxford Saïd Business School he leads and coaches entrepreneurs planning for high growth.
As a trainer for The Google Digital Academy, he facilitates Google's learning programmes to enable clients to shape their brand and businesses with a consumer-centric, and digital-first mindset.
Andrew has a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring (PGDip) is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership (FloL) and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He is also a qualified Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), FIRO-B® and DiSC®practitioner.
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About the Digital Skills Festival
This
event is part of Professional Development Day, the final day of the
Digital Skills Festival 2024. The Digital Skills Festival is an annual
event hosted by Manchester Digital, aimed at bringing the tech community
in the North West together to build our digital future. This event, and
all events within the Festival, are free to attend thanks to the
generous support of our Sponsors.
To learn more about the Festival: https://digitalskillsfestival.com/
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