MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE

The Importance of Competent Management

“Without management there is no institution. Management is the specific organ of the modern institution. It is the organ on the performance of which the performance and the survival of the institution depend…. Above all, it is responsible for producing the results…for the sake of which each institution exists.” – Peter Drucker

In a survey of 110 Fortune 500 CEOs, only 43 percent of the CEOs were satisfied with college graduates’ management skills and only 28 percent were satisfied with their interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. The good news is that improvement in management skills has been found in both students and senior managers who have engaged with Cameron Institute’s management skills development training. For example, MBA students showed improvements of 50 to 300 percent on social skills over two years after the training, and a cohort of 45- to 55-year-old executives likewise produced a similar level of improvement (Boyatzis, 1996, 2000, 2005, Gal, 2022).

CAMERON INSTITUTE RESEARCH-BASED TRAINING

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FRAMEWORKS

Numerous empirically-backed frameworks supported by hundreds of studies over decades of research form the foundation of the unparalleled 10 Skills for Management Excellence™ training. Below are just a few examples of these frameworks:

PUBLICATIONS

Learn more about developing management skills through the gold standard for hands-on training in management skills. Designed for all levels, it focuses on what effective managers do and provides actionable guidance for modern management challenges:

 

ASSESSMENTS

INITIAL ASSESSMENT
Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS)™
Use this self-assessment instrument to get a profile of your level of competence on several important management skills.

SKILL #1 – DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS
Self-Awareness Assessment (SAA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you gain insights into yourself and the efforts you make to increase your self-awareness, so you can tailor your learning of personal, interpersonal and group/team skills to your specific needs.

SKILL #2 – MANAGING STRESS & WELL-BEING
Stress Management Assessment (SMA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you understand how well you manage stress. It also provides insights into your overall well-being.
Time Management Assessment (TMA)™
This self-assessment helps you compare your current time management practices with a list of effective practices compiled from the work of experts on this subject.
Sources of Personal Stress (SPS)™
This self-assessment helps you to identify sources of personal stress and reflect on how to manage them.

SKILL #3 – SOLVING PROBLEMS ANALYTICALLY & CREATIVELY
Problem Solving, Creativity, and Innovation (PSCI)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you better understand how well you solve problems, use a creative perspective when appropriate, and foster creativity and innovation.
Creative Style Assessment (CSA)™
Research has identified four creative styles. These can be thought of as approaches to creativity. This self-assessment helps you identify your preferred style.

SKILL #4 – BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS BY COMMUNICATING SUPPORTIVELY
Communicating Supportively Assessment (CommSA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you assess the extent to which you engage in supportive communication. In contrast to accurate communication, which refers to the content of what is communicated, supportive communication is the use of communication to improve interpersonal relations.
Communicating Styles Assessment (CStyles)™
This self-assessment provides insights into your preferred style of interpersonal communication.

SKILL #5 – GAINING POWER & INFLUENCE
Gaining Power and Influence Assessment (GPIA)™
This self-assessment helps you understand your proficiency with four closely related skills: gaining power, exercising influence, exercising authority, and resisting inappropriate influence.
Using Influence Strategies Assessment (UISA)™
The ability to influence others is a key component of effective social interaction. This self-assessment helps you identify your preferred approach to exercising influence.

SKILL #6 – MOTIVATING PERFORMANCE
Motivating Performance Competency Assessment (MPCA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you assess how well you use proven motivation strategies to enhance the work performance of others.
Motivational Potential of Work Assessment (MPWA)™
This self-assessment helps you identify obstacles you are experiencing (or have experienced) that prevent you from achieving a high level of performance in a work setting.

SKILL #7 – RESOLVING CONFLICT
Resolving Conflict Competency Assessment (RCCA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you better understand your preferred approaches to managing and resolving interpersonal conflict.
Approaches for Resolving Conflict Assessment (ARCA)™
This self-assessment will help you become more aware of how you typically respond to interpersonal conflict, setting the stage for learning how you can improve this critical management skill.

SKILL #8 – EMPOWERING & ENGAGING OTHERS
Effective Empowerment and Engagement (3E)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you understand how effectively you empower others and facilitate their feelings of engagement when you are serving in a supervisory role.
Personal Empowerment Assessment (PEA)™
This self-assessment helps you better understand the extent to which you are empowered in a particular role.

SKILL #9 – BUILDING EFFECTIVE TEAMS & TEAMWORK
Team Development Behaviors Assessment (TDBA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you better understand the contributions you make to building effective teams and enabling teamwork.

SKILL #10 – LEADING POSITIVE CHANGE
Leading Positive Change Assessment (LPA)™
This self-assessment is designed to help you better understand how well you lead planned change initiatives within groups and organizations.

CONSULTING & TRAINING

In-Person

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The 10 Skills for Management Excellence™

The gold standard for management skills training for four decades. Based on research involving tens of thousands of managers in Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, The 10 Skills for Management Excellence™ is what every manager needs to achieve management excellence in any for-profit or non-profit organization. Cameron Institute can also customize a program for a client with a specific grouping of these skills based on the results of the Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS)™.

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The 10 Skills for Management Excellence™ Live Online Workshops

Single-skill live online workshops using the gold standard for management skills training for four decades. Ideal for geographically dispersed teams in different time zones, these workshops focus on developing one skill at a time through interactive, engaging sessions. Cameron Institute can also customize a program for a client with a specific grouping of these skills based on the results of the Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS)™.

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WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP?

Scenario

Desired Result

You are seeking greater understanding of how Management Excellence fits with Culture Change and Positive Leadership, and where to begin in terms of organizational, leadership and management improvement.

Next Step

Connect with Cameron Institute to schedule a training session on how Management Excellence fits with Culture Change and Positive Leadership, and how your organization can be assessed to determine the next steps.

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Desired Result

You would like to assess your current leaders and managers in terms of their management skills, and determine a training program that will make the most immediate impact and address their key areas of management skills development.

Next Step

Engage with Cameron Institute to administer The Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS)™ to determine where your leaders and managers are currently at in terms of their management skills.

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