Conceptual Skills

Human Skills

These skills should to be owned by the managers to work within a team because it is also like a mirror to their leadership abilities. Managers, who have this skill, usually have the advantage to communicate with other people and increase their motivation in performing a duty. If these skills are not owned by the manager, diversity in terms of race, language and culture, it will be difficult for managers to create the vision, mission and goals.

Conceptual Skills

These skills associated with the ability to coordinate and integrate all activities in the organization. It helps managers to see how all the interests and activities of the organization are consolidated, so that managers can describe a complete picture to the staff about the goals to be achieved. In addition, these skills can also help managers identify the full range of opportunities and threats in marketing activities that could bring harm to the company.

Technical Skills

Technical skills is the ability of managers to use specific knowledge, techniques and procedures in the areas of budgeting, finance, computer skills, Internet skills and competent in a content area. Technical skills possessed is derived from formal education and subsequently developed through training and experience that suits the job done.

Communication Skills

This skill is serves to connect with others. This aspect is involves the use of some skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and interaction with the media. All this skills can speed up the affairs of the organization of work in which it involves the relationship between managers and staff. In addition, managers can also interact with people who have a different view.

Emotional Intelligence Skills

This skill allows a manager to solve a problem smoothly. It able to move the negative to positive emotions. These skills can also foster a humanitarian nature, generate creativity and also can affect other people. So that, the work environment will be more cheerful and indirectly it will further enhance the motivation of each employee.

Interpersonal Skills

These skills are referring to the ability of manager to work, understand and motivate all staff either individually or group. This situation can exist a good atmosphere continuously in organization. These skills also are very effective in the management. Staff can feel that they are be appreciated because the entire task that they are have done get the attention of manager.

Cognitive Skills

Cognitive skills are an essential skill for a manager. This skill allows a manager to give an opinion, understanding, remembering things that happened in their respective environment. Skill in area of critical thinking also is an important aspect of leadership in order to use logic to analyze the strength and weakness of various approaches of the work.

In the organization there is many staff that needs to be managed by the Manager. In order to ensure that the roles can be implemented effectively, every manager must have certain skills. Regarding the skills needed in leadership, we have chosen a conceptual skill. The skills associated with the ability to coordinate and integrate all activities in the organization. It helps managers to see how all the interests and activities of the organization are consolidated so that managers can describe a complete picture to the staff about the goals to be achieved. In addition, these skills can also help managers identify the full range of opportunities and threats in marketing activities that could bring harm to the company. In a business environment, the managers who have these skills might come up with an idea for a new product or a new process. They are able to examine a complex issue and formulate a specific and effective course of action.

CONCEPTUAL SKILLS

One skill that we choose for leadership training is conceptual skills. The term “conceptual skills” refers to the aptitude that people have to formulate ideas. Such skills include thinking creatively, formulating abstractions, analyzing complex situations, understanding issues and solving problems. In the business world, these skills are considered an integral requirement for executives in top-level management positions. Conceptual skills are different from technical skills and human skills. All three types of skills play important roles in certain situations or for certain purposes, but conceptual skills heave the broadest application because they can pertain to virtually anything.

Conceptual skills involve knowing how to and being able to formulate ideas. Individuals who have strong conceptual skills typically have excellent cognitive abilities to think creatively and solve problems. In a business environment, someone who has these skills might come up with an idea for a new product or a new process. He or she is able to examine a complex issue and formulate a specific, effective course of action.

People who have conceptual skills can examine how ideas are interrelated. They effectively perceive individual elements in relationship to the whole. People who have strong conceptual skills are often identified as effective leaders or managers. This generally is because of their ability to understand the organization as a whole and develop creative strategies. Top-level managers often need to have technical skills and human skills in addition to conceptual skills.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Conceptual Skills allow a manager to visualize the entire organization and work with ideas and the relationships between abstract concepts. Top managers rely mostly on conceptual skills, but they use significant human skills as well. Remember, though, they need technical skills to set a strategy that makes sense for the organization. Top managers have the most discretion, or choice, in how they exercise any of these skills.

TRAINING ACTIVITY

Activity 1 – Ice Breakers
The Little Known Fact: Ask participants to share their name, department or role in the organization, length of service, and one little known fact about themselves. This “little known fact” becomes a humanizing element that can help break down differences such as grade/status in future interaction. Activity 2 – Save our Soul (S.O.S)

Activities:Individual
Conformance To: Conflict Management, Troubleshooting, EQ, Self Motivations, Negotiation Skills Duration:1 hour 30 minutes
Synopsis: An event occurs when the ship struck a rock which caused a major leak that would cause the ship to be sunk. Unfortunately there was only a lifeboat shall be used. 100 passengers, 10 passengers lifeboat, how to make decisions.

Activity 3 – Cast Away
Activities:Individual
Duration:1 hour 30 minutes
Conformance To: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Effective Communication Synopsis:Stranded on an uninhabited island with only one thing in common only to be used to save you over 30 days is stranded on an island. Imagine if you only have a few coins only keeping, what can be done by you of these coins?

Activity 4 – Roller Coaster Project
Activities: Group
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Conformance To:Teamwork, Creative Thinking, Strategic Management Synopsis: Build a mega project is not easy without good planning, creativity and cooperation of the members of the group. However, if done effectively it must satisfy and fun.

Activity 5 – Red Blue Chip
Activities:Group
Conformance To: Teamwork, Risk Management, Analysis, Organizational Leadership Duration:1 hour 30 minutes
Synopsis: 5 groups, 5 rounds, the stock market is very active, economic fluctuations, but risk must be taken as well. Blue and red stock market is risky, the decision to make an investment with a certain amount of risk to provide investors in the event of a loss that may lead them to bankruptcy.

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

8.00AM~Registration
8.30AM~Activity 1:Ice Breakers
9.00AM~Activity 2:Save Our Soul (S.O.S)
10.30AM~Tea Break
11.00AM~Activity 3:Cast Away
12.30PM~Lunch
2.00PM~Activity 4:Roller Coaster Project
3.30PM~Activity 5:Red Blue Chip
4.30PM~Programmed Wrapping