Anything that doesn’t facilitate your goal, your team or your organization is not management.

As management increasingly becomes a job requirement, the art in it is confined by cliches and rules. This outdoor management training programme for managing management aim to dig deeper into the routine organizational management choices being made to look closer at the beliefs, assumptions and needs. It is about examining all we do, and why we do it and seeing if it is necessary or if it is necessarily the easiest way of achieving what we want.

Managing Management explores the ‘act of management’ and frees participants from the perception that ‘management’ is something esoteric that their job requires them to do. It invites them to look at management as whatever they do to achieve what they want efficiently. An art, so to say. If it doesn’t bring ease, it is doing damage.

The programme unfolds as a series of short tasks in the form of team building activities. This provides participants real time data on the management of teams in the group which serves as a concrete experiential foundation for the understanding of important concepts. The low-stakes environment creates an diverse circumstantial opportunities for hands on experimentation with different concepts and varieties of choices. Often participants discover the utility of terms they knew in theory for years. An indispensable learning space for team leaders,

Managing Management empowers participants to develop their management skills in a flexible, situation-appropriate style. Objectives:

• De-jargonizing from “management” to “getting it done”
• Looking at the circumstantial nature of management and exploring common myths about the “must do” elements.
• Going beyond conceptual “shoulds” and management templates to learn to assess what is necessary for THIS task.
• Learning to embrace the whole picture as it becomes easier to relate with concrete experience.
• Learning to stop and when things are chaotic and find clarity
• Experimenting with ways of achieving clarity and effective functioning in a group
• Arriving at an experiential understanding of typical management terminology arising spontaneously in the group based on the purpose it serves.
• Exploring roles and boundaries
• Ending up with agile styles of effective management that have a “light footprint”