The Management Centre (=mc)

16/03/2022

People can make or break a project. As a project manager it’s important to know and understand who your stakeholders are and how to manage your relationships with them. Here are some tools to help:

Managing project stakeholders well is vital to the success of any project. This article introduces practical ways to do that.

16/03/2022

Being a new manager comes with great responsibilities. People to manage, plans to make, and your own work to do on top of it. Teams are with us today, getting to grips with essential management tools to help navigate their role. Sound interesting? Join our next public training:

Charity and non-profit management training course offering tools and techniques for those new or stepping up to management.

16/03/2022

Teams are with us for another session on Coaching Skills, learning to use a number of frameworks and tools to develop a coaching relationship with colleagues and guide them to higher performance, including the GROW model. Read more about it:

Discover how to use the GROW coaching approach (created by Sir John Whitmore, Timothy Gallwey and Graham Alexander) to enable others to be more successful.

15/03/2022

Excited to be looking at the key skills of project management with teams today. Take a look at their brilliant projects and how they’re striving for a healthier London population by getting everyone up and moving:

View our selection of live projects which we are currently running as part of our mission to make London the in the world.

15/03/2022

Welcome to teams , with us today to discuss the intricacies of how to deal with a conversation that you know will be difficult to have, with all the anxiety that comes with it. Here are 5 key principles to help you manage that conversation:

5 key principles to help you manage a challenging conversation effectively to ensure a good outcome for both you and them.

14/03/2022

Everyone – and I mean EVERYONE – makes a mistake at some point, and it can be quite worrying owning up to it, but the way to recover is to deal with it properly. That means being honest. Read practical advice on different ways forward:

Management, leadership, fundraising & communications skills training for charities, local councils, public sector, arts & higher education organisations.

14/03/2022

Ever wondered what a high performing local Council looks like? have led the way in realising the importance of developing their people in order to improve their services. Read about their learning journey in this new Impact Report:https://buff.ly/3tm3BvU

11/03/2022

Delighted to share this new Impact Report of ’s ambitious learning journey. They recognised that in order to deliver their strategy, they needed to develop ALL their managers with the skills and confidence to lead Wealden forward. Read on:

Case studies the Management Centre's work with charities, INGOs, local councils, higher education, non-profit, arts and public sector organisations.

11/03/2022

Presentations? For some people, they can be absolutely nerve-wracking. You know what to say and you’re certain about it. But then doubt creeps in and there goes your confidence. Good new, there are a plethora of skills you can learn to help with this! are doing just that today. Good luck everyone.

10/03/2022

Congratulations to everyone completing the Managing Multiple Priorities training today, especially our very own Training and Office Assistant Andreia! We hope you’ve all enjoyed the process and are ready to go back to work and take charge of your time & those pesky time thieves!

10/03/2022

Welcome to teams , with us for a session on Project Management today. So what makes a project go wrong? Most theories say it’s either the people or the planning. Here are some tips on managing the people (stakeholder) side:

Managing project stakeholders well is vital to the success of any project. This article introduces practical ways to do that.

09/03/2022

Just because you understand change and are very clear on how to manage it, that doesn’t mean you necessarily find it easy. Today, teams are with us to discuss change and how to manage it. Here are some typical change challenges and what to do about them:

Following a change in direction themselves, =mc Learning Director Yvette Gyles shares solutions to 7 challenges faced by most people during change.