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IMI Essential Skills of Management
May 19, 2026 - July 1, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Irish Management Institute Essential Skills of Management
This highly interactive six-day programme is designed to enhance your existing management skills, and will help learners to develop new competencies within a framework of identified essential skills. It is comprised of 6 full days divided into 3 modules of 2 consecutive days each:
1. Excel: Learn a variety of management tools and techniques,
2. Perform: Discover how to design strategies for increased employee performance and
3. Deliver: Find out how to foster an environment of creativity and innovation.
The Essential Skills of Management programme is one of the Irish Management Institutes (IMI) most popular executive development programmes.
Who is the course for?
This programme is ideal for developing managers who have 6 months or more experience and who would like to enhance their key management skills. It is being particularly targeted at middle management in SMEs.
Learning outcomes
Module 1 (2 days): Understanding your Role and Context
• Remote working and leading
• The role of the manager
• Listening skills
• Your development planning
• Management behaviours
• Essential steps of planning
• Goal and objective setting
• Problem solving
• Responses to Conflict
Module 2 (2 days): Aligning Goals & Resources
• Influencing
• Delegation
• Flexible Management
• Introduction to Belbin
• Belbin Team roles
• Motivation
• Building blocks of successful teams
• Building trust
• Team stages & high performing teams
Module 3 (2 days): Building an enabling culture
• DiSC Profile – understanding self
• DiSC Profile – understanding others
• Performance management & effective feedback
• Coaching skills for managers
• Managing different performance conversations
• Pulling it all together
- Dates
6 Days: 19 – 20 May, 9 – 10 Jun, 30 Jun – 1 July 2026
- Cost:
€1500pp
- Times:
9.00am to 5.00pm each day
- Venue:
ONLINE
- For more information please contact skillnet@waterfordchamber.ie
Who is eligible to apply for this training programme?
Private sector or commercial semi-state enterprises only.
Unfortunately the following organisations are not eligible:
- Public sector organisations,
- Charity or Not-for-Profit Organisations, and
- Companies based outside the Republic of Ireland