Manager as Team Navigator (MAT)^TM

Introduction

In time of change, leaders need to lead their teams in a flexible, participative and agile way. Most leaders have no idea where to start.

The modern work place has changed significantly over the last decade. Most employees are knowledge-age workers. They are educated, specialized and smart. They want to be involved. They want to understand and to have an impact. This requires a new style of leadership. The industrial age "Top – Bottom" approach no longer suffices. This out of date leadership style creates a very low level of engagement and alignment that many organizations experience around the globe.

A whole array of new mindset, skills and tools are needed in order to lead nowadays. Moreover, most leaders have been trained to lead individuals rather than leading whole teams as a unit.
MAT™ is a unique leadership training program. It was created in response to the need for participative leadership. This style of leadership engages the whole team and creates buy- in and alignment. It provides leaders with the ability to lead teams as whole teams, going beyond leading individual team members.

Objectives

• Develop comprehensive team leadership mind-set, tool-set and skill-set .
• Provide leaders with unique skills to work with contemporary and challenging teams such as remote teams, virtual teams, ad- hoc teams and more.
• Provide unique skills for leading a team as a whole - create, lead, manage.
• Make them much more effective and capable in the new work place, leading knowledge-age workers and millennials.
• Develop managers to engage, align and lead their team as a whole for going through changes and reaching highly effective results.
• Allows leaders to acquire core leadership tools to develop focused, high performance teams.
• Creates future type of new team leaders.

The program is suitable for:

• Managers who need to develop themselves to lead teams.
• As part of a leadership development pathway
• Organizations want to prepare and equip managers to lead in times of change.

Outcomes

After the program, the managers or team leaders can:

• Identify the team’s needs using the structured model of the Compass.
• Develop a participative leadership mindset for managing millennials and knowledge age workers.
• Acquire core team leadership tools, skills and techniques, excellent facilitating skills and learn to use them in leadership domains.
• Create the next phase development for team.
• Engage the team members better.

How does it work?

Preparation:

• Pre-training online assessment.
• Preparation and adaptation with the organization.

Face to Face intervention:

A two day workshop that provides the team leaders with tools to:

• lead teams through change​.
• energize and engage teams.
• solve team conflicts.
• unblock team stagnation.
• lead teams to high performance.

Implementation:

• Four annual check points.
• Optional N.E.W.S.® Executive Coaching™.
• Post-training assessment after 3 months to assess ROI.

What can you expect?

• We create the leaders of tomorrow to thrive in times of change.
• Become more attentive, flexible, resilient, and risk takers.
• Become developers of people and teams.
• Be able to navigate teams through a volatile, uncertain and complex environment and lead them into a new future.