Developing Professional Management Skills

Do you want to manage yourself, your time and your work better? Would you like to have a supervisory or management role? Perhaps you have management experience but want to improve your skills further or you run your own business and want to increase proficiency?

If you answered 'yes' to any of those questions, your CPD programme should be structured to optimise the skills required for management.

The DPMS scheme

The DPMS scheme is a flexible, low cost way for you to gain these skills. It's a self-study package so you can learn at your own pace, either in work or at home. It costs just £30 to register. On registration you will receive a user guide - to help you focus on your development needs and manage your progress - and your first module. Further modules cost £20 each.

After registration, you can choose the modules of most relevance to you from the 18 available. The top 10 most popular are:

Getting the best out of yourself	Managing your time, your workload and getting the best out of yourself, including time and work management techniques and eliminating stress.
Getting the best out of others	Delegating responsibility and authority clearly, motivating people to achieve their objectives, and giving people honest and constructive feedback.
Developing teams, managing teams, and individuals	Making sure everyone in your team has the knowledge and skills to meet individual and the organisation's objectives, including planning and delivering/supporting learning and development.
Managing poor performance	Dealing with unsatisfactory performance from giving positive support through to implementing grievance and disciplinary procedures.
Meeting customer requirements	Defining what your customers want, planning operations accordingly, checking customer needs are met, and ensuring you continue to meet them.
Managing change	Identifying possible improvements, assessing the pros and cons, planning the introduction of change and implementing it in an effective way that gets everyone on board.
Decision making	Gathering and organising the necessary information to make a decision, and implementing decisions.
Managing meetings	Using meetings to achieve objectives in a cost and time-efficient way, including preparing for meetings, contributing at meetings, and leading meetings.
Managing projects	Using project management techniques to ensure you achieve your key work objectives, including scoping, planning for, leading and concluding your projects.
Using your influence	Assessing and developing your influencing skills, including motivating, negotiating and gaining support.

Enquiries and registration

To get further information and a registration form e-mail: dpms@aat.org.uk or tel: 0845 863 0793.