Initiative and Enterprise (Supervisory Level)Want to stand out from the crowd? The recipe for success lies in maximising your creativity and positive thinking skills with a large measure of initiative added in. This course aims to develop participants with the skills in leading the team to initiate actions for continuous improvements in the department/organisation and creating a proactive mindset through the identification, evaluation and management of risks in the workplace.
Key Benefits- Lead and motivate a team to explore innovative opportunities to improve workplace performance
- Promote skills for self-direction and foster innovative and enterprising behaviours
- Identify risks and assess implications on team performance
- Implement risk preventive and control strategies
Course Content
• Initiate Action for Continuous Improvement
- Identifying continuous improvement areas in the work place
> Efficiency and Productivity
> Costs and Service
> Changing needs
- Preparing the Team for Continuous Improvement
- Identifying and dealing with challenges
- Identifying and developing skills for self-directed teams
• Practise Innovative and Enterprising Behaviours
- Types of Innovation and Opportunities
- Techniques to encourage and explore opportunities
- Basic principles to tap on innovative and creativity in the workplace
- Traits of an innovative and enterprising team/individual
- Tools and techniques to develop creative ideas in teams
- Sustaining innovative and enterprising behaviours
• Identify, Evaluate and Manage Risks
- Risks associated with periodic operations and new initiatives
- Implication of risk assessment on team performance
- Risk management training for team
- Formulating and recommending risk preventive and control strategies
- Implementing and evaluating the strategy
Learning Methodology
This module is participative, activity-oriented and totally learner-centred. Knowledge and skills are transferred through experiential learning via structured experiences, individual and group activities, role plays, case studies and lectures, practice, coaching and self assessments/tests.
Who Should Attend
This programme is targeted at supervisors, individuals in small businesses and the self-employed who have to increase productivity within the work unit through increased efficiency and effectiveness in materials and human resources.
Course Details
Duration: 2 days (16 hrs)
Time: 9am - 6pm
Course Fee: $342.40 (Incl. 7% GST)
SDF Support: 90%, capped at $11 per hour
(SDF support is available. Conditions apply.)
