People management courses
Gain essential skills to confidently manage and support employee challenges with empathy and care while meeting strategic goalsPeople management strategies to help maximise the morale and performance of your teams
The lack of effective people management skills can often make or break a company. Poor people management can affect productivity, disengage employees, and stifle innovation.
Our people management course equips the learner with knowledge and skills to motivate existing staff, conduct recruitment, carry out performance and probation appraisals, build effective working relationships, manage conflict, and effectively impact and influence others.
Cathy Behan
Head of Learning & Development

What can you expect from NFP’s people management training?
Gain best-practice people management skills and knowledge on current legislation and related people management topics.
Purpose
Develop and enhance your people management skills and emotional intelligence to improve morale and productivity.
Target audience
Any person who manages people in large companies, SMEs or the public sector that wants to develop their people management skills.
Delivery
Virtually or in-person, at a time and place that best suits you.
People management course training material
Our people management course is made up of 2 X 2-hour sessions and includes the following topics:
Session one
- Current manager challenges
- Recruitment
- Training
- Probation management
- Performance management
Session two
- Essential people management skills
- Work support and supervision
- Engagement
- Impact and influence
- Top tips
Learning outcomes
This people management course develops the skills required to manage and lead people in today’s world.
On completion of this course learners will:
- Understand how to influence your team more effectively
- Have a clear understanding of how to impact and influence your peers
- Improve communication, collaboration and teamwork skills
- Be able to deal with difficult people and personalities
- Instil accountability through performance management
- Lead and inspire others during time of change
The value of trusting NFP with your peoples’ development
Expertise: Delivered by a team of experienced specialists with hands-on experience in managing people.
Experience: Our specialist team has vast experience designing and creating people management training programmes, tailoring them to meet the needs or training gaps of our clients, and creating content that is present and prevalent.
How to apply it: The facilitator will provide the learners with practical, actionable tips on improving their people management skills, including key areas such as communication and time management.
What our clients say
Don’t just take our word for it – hear from our clients who have discovered the business and people benefits of NFP’s leading HR training courses:
We have always found the service from the team to be excellent. We have used NFP’s online training with our staff in Ireland and the content and production was so good that we ran it out with our staff in the UK as well.
The team are extremely knowledgeable trainers and played a pivotal role in making the program a resounding success with our management team. Their expertise was evident in every session, and they have a unique ability to engage the participants and create a dynamic learning environment that further enriched the experience.
Their team of expert trainers are extremely professional. The training is tailored to meet our needs and is always very informative, engaging, and well received. I would highly recommend NFP to other companies with any training needs.
Request a chat with one of our HR training specialists
To discuss how we can upskill your business with engaging training courses that are tailored to the unique needs of your business and people, request a chat with one of our specialists today.