CPE Management Skills For Middle Managers

Program Overview

Middle managers spend much of their time on practical management tasks: running meetings, managing budgets and resources, solving operational problems, monitoring performance and reporting to senior leadership. This skills-focused course strengthens those day-to-day capabilities: structured problem solving and root cause analysis, operational planning and resource allocation, budget monitoring, performance management and difficult conversations, effective meetings and decision records, and concise reporting to senior management. Exercises use realistic scenarios from Gulf organizations so that participants can apply each tool directly in their departments.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Solve an operational problem using a structured problem-solving method and root cause analysis.
• ✓Prepare an operational plan that allocates staff and resources to departmental priorities.
• ✓Monitor a departmental budget and propose corrective actions for variances.
• ✓Run a decision-focused meeting and produce clear decision and action records.
• ✓Write a concise management report for senior leadership with key issues and recommendations.

Target Audience

• Middle managers and section heads
• Operations and service managers
• Department managers in government and private sector
• Supervisors moving into middle management

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Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment