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Driving People Performance: Essential People Management Skills

Enable people to thrive and perform at their best

Next date
24 Jul 2025, 9am
Delivery
In Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
1 day
CPD/PLD Hours
7.5

Course overview

In this dynamic, hands-on one-day workshop, you’ll experience a fresh approach to people management.

This course offers a complete toolkit of essential skills designed to enhance team performance, productivity, and wellbeing. Working in small groups, you’ll dive into proven strategies and share insights with others, gaining practical experience that’s immediately applicable in your workplace.

Designed to be both practical and impactful, the workshop provides a safe space to test out strategies and equips you with the skills to adapt these tools to your team’s unique challenges and culture. By the end, you’ll be prepared to manage and support people with confidence, setting your team up for success.

Facilitated by

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Trish Stonestreet

What you'll learn

  • More about your own communication style and how to leverage your natural strengths
  • More about the people you manage – how they work best and what might cause them stress
  • What stage your team is at, and a number of specific actions to move it towards high performance
  • What it takes to build trust – the foundational principle of effective teamwork
  • How to set people up for success even when working remotely
  • A simple structure for supporting and developing people’s performance through setting clear expectations
  • An easy conversation structure to regularly “check in”
  • Key principles of giving and receiving feedback so people can hear it and are willing and able to change behaviour
  • Effective strategies for managing your own workload

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

24 Jul 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

17 Oct 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

Can’t make these dates or want a private course?

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