Human Resources Management (HRM)
People are the most valuable asset to an organisation and are crucial in the success or failure of achieving envisaged goals. The ultimate goal of Human Resources management is to ensure that the appropriate number of staff with relevant skills correctly fulfils their tasks and find personal satisfaction in doing so. Development programmes face additional challenges to enable expatriate and local staff to work together in temporary arrangements and in difficult circumstances, requiring a specific human resources management system and approach to deal with continuous changes in policies, expected outputs and with the working environment.
In the development sector, managers are often selected on their technical skills, the relational skills being considered as an asset only. As a consequence, staff happens to be frequently frustrated for divers reasons: they feel that their skills are not sufficiently recognised, latent conflicts are not being tackled on time, etc. A lot of energy is wrongly used, which influences the performance of the project as well as the staff’s motivation.
Course Objectives
The course aims to equip managers with the specific relational skills for bringing out optimally their staff members’ competencies. This will be rewarded in terms of benefits of the staff’s personal capital contributions, as well as in terms of implementing projects in an effective and harmonious way.
Participants
Programme/project managers, technical assistants and team leaders as well as staff of development organisations involved in the supervision, coordination and guidance of development projects and programmes in one or more phases of the project cycle.
Course Content
Human resources management tools for improved communication, guidance and motivation of their staff. The course content is adapted to the specific needs of your organisation.
Indicative Course Outline
Duration and course content are adapted to the client’s needs and expectations. Following course outline is an example of a three-day course based on the integration cycle of new staff members in a project: welcoming, team management, evaluation.
| Monday |
Basic tools for communication and staff selection |
| Tuesday |
Leadership and coaching |
| Wednesday |
Evaluation interview and team building |
Training Method
The course offers practical, hands-on experience and reflection mixed with references to minimal theoretical backgrounds. Specific interest and needs of participants are discussed at the start of the course and will be given a place in the programme where possible. There are opportunities for practical exercises, simulations and role-plays with individual and group feedback for reflection in a stimulating environment.
Registration
MDF Brussels delivers this training only on tailor made basis for organisations*.
It is our role to target your organisation’s requests. We will be happy to identify with you a training programme that meets your needs. Please contact us at:
E info@mdfbrussels.be
T +32-(0)2-242 19 09
F +32-(0)2-242 58 45
W www.mdf.nl
* Open inscription courses on this topic for individual participants are organised by MDF in the Netherlands and by our various other branch offices. We refer individual participants who wish to attend this course to the MDF group website for further details and on-line registration.
