Managing during Difficult Times

When a business is experiencing tough times, decisive and coherent management is more important than ever. This is also the time when effective management is the most difficult to achieve. After completing this course, you will be able to demonstrate to employers that you have the knowledge and skills to weather the storm.

Why do this course?

• Looks great on your CV
• Shows recruiters you have the skills they are looking for
• Gives you a great grounding in team management

Communicating during Difficult Times

• This course explains the responsibilities of various leadership roles when communicating during challenging times.
• It then covers how to create a communication plan using a five-step process.
• Finally, it gives guidance and an opportunity to practice communicating with employees about hard strategic decisions arising from challenging business situations.

Managing Resources during Difficult Times

• This course covers strategic responses to difficult times, such as cutting unnecessary costs and building relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees.
• It explains how you can implement alternative solutions to avoid laying off employees.
• It also details how to plan and perform layoffs where necessary.
• Finally, it highlights positive opportunities that are created when organizations face challenging times.

Managing Attitudes during Difficult Times

• This course explains how stress manifests itself in employees when companies are going through challenging times, and it teaches techniques for reducing such stress.
• It also shows you how to develop a motivational style of leadership to maximize employee performance and reduce demotivating workplace behaviours.
• Finally, it gives you a chance to practice strategies for supporting employees through tough times.

What’s included?

• Hands-on interactive exercises - learn by doing

In partnership with Skillsoft

reed.co.uk has partnered with SkillSoft, the world’s leading provider of eLearning, to offer you all the quality training you need. You will be learning on SkillSoft software. SkillSoft is the world leader in e-learning for businesses, and is used by multinational companies such as FedEx, Hilton, VirginMedia and Hewlett Packard. By training with SkillSoft you will be working with an industry recognised organisation and investing in training that employers already know and trust.

Please note:

Please allow 24 hours to receive your online training details. If your order is made over the weekend, your online training details will be provided on the following Monday morning.

This SkillSoft course is not aligned to any certification or exam - it is a course to teach knowledge and skills.

This course is designed specifically for for use on desktop browsers. Performance on mobile devices may vary and compatibility with non-desktop devices is not guaranteed.