25 HRDC Claimable Programmes For First-Time Managers In Malaysia
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D Jungle People has 25 leadership programmes addressing the various skills and competencies needed to turn new managers into effective leaders in the workplace.
These are four broad outcomes effective leaders achieve with their teams, and each section is accompanied by a brief description for clarification.
And as mindset is important, there are topics that help replace old ways of thinking with new ones!
Executing
These programmes improve a first-time manager’s ability to turn organisational plans and ideas into reality, thereby ensuring goals are achieved as efficiently as possible.
ACTION PLANNING WORKSHOP
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This workshop helps participants reflect on and assess their action plans, review steps to achieve objectives, and encourages immediate improvements and actions within organisations and teams by empowering them.
Skills taught
Execution, Planning, Reflection, Goal Setting
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MANAGING PERFORMANCE
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This program teaches individuals the tools and techniques for effective performance management, helping them manage both their own and their team’s performance, and addresses challenges to optimising results.
Skills taught
Performance Management, People Engagement, Feedback Giving, Expectation Setting
F2F / Virtual / Both
Both
STRATEGIC EXECUTION / DISCIPLINE OF EXECUTION
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This program helps organisations overcome barriers to strategy implementation using a framework, while strengthening their ability to adapt to the ever-changing business environment.
Skills taught
Strategic Execution, Prioritisation, People Management, Gaining Buy-In
F2F / Virtual / Both
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Influencing
These programmes improve a first-time manager’s ability to persuade stakeholders both internal (such as team members) and external (such as clients) to agree with their decisions regarding outcomes, methods, and more.
BRAND CALLED “YOU”
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This course helps employees analyse and align their personal brands with the organisation’s image, emphasising its importance for standing out and influencing consumer decisions in a competitive landscape.
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Personal Branding, Self Awareness, Brand / Value Alignment
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INFLUENCING AND NEGOTIATION
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This session focuses on understanding and adapting to others’ communication styles, equipping participants with tools to assess styles and apply systematic approaches to enhance relationships, boost morale, and achieve successful outcomes.
Skills taught
Persuasive Communication, Negotiation, Value Exchange, Bargaining
F2F / Virtual / Both
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MANAGING UP & ACROSS
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This program helps individuals develop skills to engage effectively with senior leaders and peers, improving their ability to persuade, influence, and adapt their behavior to enhance work performance and business outcomes.
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Stakeholder Management, Adapting to different individuals, Effective Communication, Trust Building
F2F / Virtual / Both
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POWER COMMUNICATION
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This workshop focuses on enhancing communication skills to bridge generational, cultural, and transformational gaps, providing structured approaches to cultivate clear communication, helping leaders connect, gain buy-in, and drive success.
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Effective Communication, Clear Communication, Feedback Giving, Adapting to Different Individuals
F2F / Virtual / Both
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PRESENT LIKE A PRO
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This module focuses on enhancing presentation skills, teaching participants how to engage and immerse their audience, ensuring impactful communication and idea generation in various settings.
Skills taught
Presentation, Elevator Pitch, Fear Regulation, Speech Structuring
F2F / Virtual / Both
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EXECUTIVE PRESENCE
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This program aims to build influential power through how one presents oneself, articulates thoughts, and maintains consistency and composure, building a leadership brand to drive organisational impact.
Skills taught
Influential Communication Skills, Emotion Regulation, Consistency and Composure in Different Contexts, Speech Structuring
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Relationship building
These programmes improve a first-time manager’s ability to build genuine bonds between themselves and team members such that the group motivation to excel is no longer just transactional, but emotional.
COACHEES’ MINDSET
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This program focuses on cultivating the right mindset and behaviors in coachees, fostering awareness and excitement for their development journey with coaches to ensure successful coaching relationships.
Skills taught
Learning from Others, Curiosity to Learn, Relationship Building
F2F / Virtual / Both
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COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE
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This program emphasises the practical application of coaching to enhance employee performance and foster a learning culture, teaching managers how to adapt and optimise coaching to support their responsibilities and drive results.
Skills taught
Coaching, Questioning, Active Listening, Feedback
F2F / Virtual / Both
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
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This program highlights the inevitability of workplace conflict and emphasises that it can be managed constructively to foster diversity and innovation, teaching how to handle communication breakdowns and differing interests.
Skills taught
Conflict Management, Emotion Regulation, Adapting Communication to Different Individuals, Holding Difficult Conversations
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EMPATHETIC LEADERSHIP
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This program emphasises understanding the experiences and needs of others, fostering trust, open communication, and improved workplace performance through empathetic leadership.
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Empathy, Active Listening, Decision Making, Adaptive Communication
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GIVING FEEDBACK
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This program focuses on the art of giving constructive feedback, emphasising its role in communication and professional growth, teaching techniques to deliver impactful feedback with tact and sincerity, fostering improvement and collaboration.
Skills taught
Effective Communication, Feedback Giving
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LEADING THROUGH EMPOWERMENT
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This program provides a step-by-step guide to empowering employees, helping leaders assess if employees have the right competencies, commitment, and readiness for empowerment to boost team and organisational performance.
This group coaching program helps coachees overcome current challenges, focusing on developing self-awareness, driving transformational change, and providing ongoing support.
Skills taught
People Engagement, Questioning, Storytelling, Feedback
F2F / Virtual / Both
Both
Strategic thinking
These programmes improve a first-time manager’s ability to absorb, synthesise, and analyse information to make better decisions and create better outcomes. Closely related is the speed at which this process can happen.
DESIGN THINKING
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This program challenges traditional views of innovation, emphasising perspective and process, and teaches participants to foster an innovative environment and explore Design Thinking processes to enhance their team’s creative potential.
Skills taught
Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Execution, Empathy
F2F / Virtual / Both
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ESSENTIAL FINANCE LITERACY
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This program equips professionals with essential financial knowledge and practical skills, covering financial analysis, investment strategies, and risk management to enable informed decision-making and contribute to organisational financial success.
Skills taught
Financial Literacy, Financial Analysis, Identification of Opportunities, Financial Risk Management
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INNOVATE AND REGENERATE
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Similar to Design Thinking, this program challenges traditional views of innovation, emphasising perspective and process, and helps participants foster an innovative environment and explore the Design Thinking model to enhance creativity and teamwork.
Skills taught
Innovation, Creative Thinking, Value Creation, Execution
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RECHARGE, REJUVENATE, THRIVE
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This session provides practical strategies to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, focusing on assessing challenges and building long-term strategies to maintain quality of life and work performance.
Skills taught
Self Management, Resilience, Perspective Shifting
F2F / Virtual / Both
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SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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This program helps leaders become more adaptive using Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership principles, focusing on flexibility in leadership and exploring styles needed for different organisational contexts.
Skills taught
Leadership, Adapting to Different Individuals, Goal Setting
F2F / Virtual / Both
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First-time manager mindset
These programmes help first-time managers navigate the shift from managing themselves to managing others, which often comes with completely unfamiliar job functions like coaching, delegating, and conflict resolution.
LEADERSHIP MINDSET
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This module helps participants understand the shift from individual contributor to team leader, exploring the skills and mindset needed to lead effectively and contribute as capable managers within the organisation.
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Leadership Mindset, Thought Leadership, Trust Building
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STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
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This program teaches individuals how to navigate the organisation’s political landscape by adjusting their approach to managing relationships with key stakeholders, fostering ownership, commitment, and achieving mutually rewarding business outcomes.
Skills taught
Stakeholder Management, Relationship Building, Adaptability, Trust Building
F2F / Virtual / Both
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COACHING (Executive Coaching)
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These sessions provide senior leaders with tailored, high-impact guidance through thoughtful questioning, helping them explore challenges and develop clear action plans for growth.
Skills taught
Strategic Leadership, Culture Establishment, Pipeline Nurturing, Executive Development
F2F / Virtual / Both
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While these skills are in theory equally important, each organisation has its own unique mix of goals, limitations, and culture, so be sure to choose based on your most urgent needs.
And if you’d like help identifying these needs, time to get in touch 🙂
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