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Managing a team: adopting the right management tools

Managing a team: adopting the right management tools

Managing day-to-day operations requires a strong ability to understand group dynamics, to look back on past situations in order to implement concrete corrective actions, and to respond effectively in difficult situations. In this series of practical and engaging workshops, participants will discover the best agile management methods to achieve their goals and help their team members grow. Target audience: This training course is intended for Managers, Directors, Team Leaders, as well as anyone responsible for supporting employees—even without a hierarchical role (e.g., project manager, coordinator, coach)—who wants to develop a high-performing team.

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To prepare for the training

Theoretical content, text excerpts, and examples of communication messages will be shared with participants to ensure they have a minimum knowledge base. Discussions may also take place with the trainers in order to assess each participant’s context and level.

Training objectives

  • Communicate clear objectives to your team

  • Know how to adapt your management style according to the situation

  • Know how to delegate and receive a delegated task clearly

  • Motivate your team members

  • Build a high-performing and committed team

  • Listen effectively and respond to harmful listening

  • Know how to say no and make yourself heard when facing a peer

  • Increase the quantity and quality of your information sources

  • Express your thoughts constructively during a disagreement

  • Provide feedback and define a corrective action plan

  • Manage a difficult situation by limiting conflict-related friction

PROGRAM

Managing a team: adopting the right management tools

Session 1 - Adopting the right management style

A. Setting a SMART objective

  • Discovering the 5 elements that make up a clear objective: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound

  • Participants work on the objectives to set for themselves and their teams

  • Work on accuracy and participants' ability to measure the achievement of an objective

B. Managing according to the situation

  • Discovery of the time-skill axis

  • Mastery of directive, participative, persuasive, and delegative styles

  • Using the learning curve to support an employee's skill development

  • Applying a management style according to each situation

C. Delegating well

  • Creating their delegation poker game

  • Mastery of the 7 levels of delegation

  • Understanding responsibility and balance in decision-making during delegation

  • Analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each delegation style

  • Building their delegation poker board, choosing the right level for each task to delegate, and defining an action plan to help employees grow through delegation


Session 2 - Motivating and engaging your teams

A. Understanding and sharing your motivational drivers

  • Activating the 10 intrinsic motivational drivers

  • Identifying one's own individual motivations and those of an employee

  • Defining an action plan to motivate an employee

B. Building a high-performing team

  • Discovering the 5 stages in a group's life cycle according to Tuckman

  • Identifying the current stages

  • Implementing an action plan to move the group into a high-performance state

  • Deploying actions to unite employees in order to generate long-term collective performance


Session 3 - Gathering feedback from your employees and knowing how to respond

A. Knowing how to listen

  • Role-play scenario

  • Work on identifying harmful listening behaviors

  • Discovering the room for maneuver available in response to harmful listening behaviors

  • Implementing concrete actions to improve communication in the face of harmful listening

  • Working on active listening to inspire trust

B. Striking the right balance between assertiveness and empathy

  • Discussion of participants' everyday situations regarding their ability to assert themselves and to stand up to others

  • As a group, defining the stakes and the binary yes/no consequences when making a decision and communicating it

  • Building the yes <> no axis on the assertiveness <-> empathy axis

  • Discovering and working on the 3rd dimension, assertiveness, which makes it possible to move beyond a binary relationship to build value together

  • Implementing concrete actions to listen to, persuade, and engage one's interlocutors

C. Diversifying your sources of information

  • Building the Johari window

  • Identifying sources of information that enable constructive feedback

  • Working on the Johari window to broaden the quality of one's sources of information

  • Working on the Johari window to diversify one's sources of information


Session 4 - Encouraging constructive exchanges

A. Leading an exchange effectively

  • Scenario practice through the NASA game or the deserted island game

  • Discovering the attitudes according to Elias Porter

  • Practicing the different attitudes

  • Observing the results

  • Practicing an effective meeting scenario

B. Reaching rational exchanges even during conflicts

  • Conflict management simulation

  • Discovering the 6-step methodology: from emotional to rational

  • Rephrasing exercise

  • Putting immediate feedback into practice in a difficult situation

Our teaching methods

We aspire for as many people as possible to have the freedom to act and fulfill themselves thanks to our innovative and collaborative training programs. We therefore offer truly memorable learning experiences, putting pace, the desire to learn, and people at the heart of the method.

Our credo: to build on expertise and innovative formats, capable of engaging all the ways our participants learn. Our approach is based on the 7 existing types of intelligence, to reach and leave a lasting impression on everyone.

At Seven, you have access to content that is always at the cutting edge and prompts action, as well as tools that guarantee an immediate impact. Our 300 experts trained in our method have already enabled 60,000 people to experience unforgettable learning experiences and develop new skills. Take the time to save time! Train with us.

Certification

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Is this training course covered by the OPCOs?

Yes! You can get in touch with your Skills Operator to ask them about coverage. We can support you with this process.

Are there any prerequisites?

No prerequisites are required to enroll in the training.

Does this training course fall under the FNE-Formation program?

Yes. The FNE-Formation scheme allows all employees on partial or full furlough to have their training costs covered. If your company is eligible for partial unemployment and you are in this situation: this training will be reimbursed 100% by FNE-Formation.

How am I evaluated?

Your learning outcomes will be assessed through a practical case, a simulation, or a questionnaire.
You will be given a certificate of completion at the end of the training.

Is the training accessible?

Regarding the terms and deadlines for access to this training, you can contact us directly with a minimum notice of 15 days before the desired date.

Accessible to people with disabilities: a designated disability coordinator will follow up on any adaptation request, which must be reported in advance of the training.

Are you interested in this training?

Training programs can be custom-designed.

Duration (in days)

3 days

(adjustable internally)

Duration (in hours)

18h (3x6h)

Location

In person (Paris) or remote

In person (Paris) or remote

Capacity

6 to 9

6 to 9

participants

NPS*

86

86

Inter price

1 800 € HT

per participant

Intra price

Quote upon request

Quote upon request

* calculated based on responses collected between May 2020 and March 2026, from participants who completed the training.
The NPS is calculated from the question: “Would you recommend this training?”, rated from 0 to 10. Formula: % promoters (ratings 9-10), minus % detractors (ratings 0-6)

* calculated based on responses collected between May 2020 and March 2026, from participants who completed the training.
The NPS is calculated from the question: “Would you recommend this training?”, rated from 0 to 10. Formula: % promoters (ratings 9-10), minus % detractors (ratings 0-6)

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