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Training: The fundamentals of team management

Ref. TEAM-MGT
Duration:
2
 jours
Exam:
Non certifiant
Level:
Fondamental

The Fundamentals of Team Management Training

The team management training gives you the indispensable fundamentals to lead a team with confidence and effectiveness. Over two intensive days, you discover the manager’s roles, managerial posture, motivation levers, delegation techniques and leadership basics. A pivotal skill for all new managers and profiles transitioning to a management function in French speaking Switzerland.

Take your manager function with the right methods from day one

On the Swiss French speaking job market, well-trained managers stand out immediately. This course focuses on hands on cases: taking on the role, first individual interview, team meeting facilitation, conflict management, effective delegation.

Participant Profiles

  • Newly managers

Objectives

  • Understand the modern manager’s roles and responsibilities
  • Adopt a managerial posture aligned with your team
  • Master motivation and engagement levers
  • Learn to delegate effectively and grow your team
  • Lay the foundations of operational and relational leadership
  • Start or revitalize your managerial function with confidence

Prerequisites

  • No prerequisites

Course Content

Depending on the needs of the organization, new managers and their maturity, it is more efficient to organize a modular approach. Here are themes electives and linked to a management cycle:

  • My posture as a manager and the definition of my new role
  • Personal and team motivation as leverage for action
  • Team analysis to better understand your collaborators and therefore interact more effectively
  • Setting objectives according to the SMART model
  • Performance management and follow-up of collaborators during 1: 1 or bilateral, then annual evaluations
  • Recognition feedback and improvement feedback as a corporate culture
  • Difficult interviews or reframing by restoring dialogue
  • Multi-level influence and communication to get your messages across
  • Problem solving and decision-making tools, inspired by Lean / SixSigma
  • Questioning as a means of involving and engaging employees
  • Active listening for a better understanding
  • Coaching and personal and team development with the GROW approach
  • Managing effective meetings as a method of alignment and communication
  • Adaptong his behaviour depends on reaction
  • STAR approach recruitment interviews
  • Innovation and skills transfer

Documentation

  • Digital courseware included

Complementary Courses

Eligible Funding

ITTA is a partner of a continuing education fund dedicated to temporary workers. This fund can subsidize your training, provided that you are subject to the “Service Provision” collective labor agreement (CCT) and meet certain conditions, including having worked at least 88 hours in the past 12 months.

Additional Information

Why master team management fundamentals in 2026

Becoming a manager is rarely a simple transition. You move from technical expert to team leader, with new skills to develop: posture, communication, delegation, motivation, leadership. The team management training gives you these fundamentals over two intensive days.

Roles and responsibilities of the modern manager

The training details expected roles of today’s manager: operational pilot, talent developer, coach, communicator, meaning guarantor. This diversity of roles requires varied skills few managers naturally master.

Managerial posture

The course focuses significantly on managerial posture: being present without being directive, listening without falling into chumminess, demanding without demotivating, delegating without abandoning.

Motivation and engagement levers

A motivated team delivers superior results. The training details modern motivation levers: mission meaning, autonomy, recognition, development perspectives, work atmosphere.

Effective delegation

Delegating is not getting rid of. The course details the method: choose the right person, explain the why, set the framework, leave autonomy, control at the right times.

Leadership basics

Beyond operational management, the training introduces leadership basics: give meaning, embody values, inspire trust, make assumed decisions.

Who this course is for

Designed for new managers, future managers, managers taking on a role and all profiles who want to consolidate their managerial fundamentals.

Practical team management training in Carouge and Le Flon

In ITTA premises in Carouge and Le Flon, this course runs over two intensive days with an expert instructor.

FAQ Team management training

Who is this team management training for?

For new managers, future managers, managers taking on a role and all profiles who want to consolidate their managerial bases.

Do I need to already be a manager to follow this course?

No, the training is also adapted to future managers preparing role transition.

Does this training cover conflict management?

Briefly as aspect of daily management. The Difficult Conversations course expands on this specific topic.

What’s the difference between management and leadership?

Management drives operations and results. Leadership gives meaning, inspires and moves things forward.

Is this training held in Geneva?

Yes, at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.

How long to become a good manager?

The basics are acquired in two structured days.

How to go further after this team management training?

The Team Performance course to lead collective dynamics, or the Difficult Conversations course for sensitive situations.

Who this team management training is for

New managers, experienced managers wanting to refresh practices, technical leads with human responsibility, growing SME founders. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.

Concretely, what will you be able to do at the end

You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.

Concrete use cases in business

A new manager moving from technical expert to team facilitator without breaking installed dynamics. A service leader structuring her managerial practices after a promotion. A scale-up founder finally formalizing a managerial frame on his 15 collaborators. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.

Articulation with other ITTA courses

This training combines well with feedback manager for regular returns, delegation for empowerment, and managerial emotional intelligence for the human dimension. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.

Why this training makes a difference in professional environment

The manager job has deeply evolved: less commanding, more facilitating, more intermediating, more attention to human signals. This training lays the fundamentals of contemporary management, with attention to 2025-2026 practices (hybrid management, telework, multigenerational) that durably change daily life of team leaders.

Sustained anchoring after the course

Most participants signal a noticeable effect from the first or second week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional rhythm, with milestones at one, three and six months for participants wanting to track their progression more formally over time.

ITTA pedagogy oriented towards practice in Geneva and Lausanne

At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.

Does the course cover hybrid management?

Yes, hybrid management specifics (in-person/remote mix, asynchronous, multi-sites) are integrated.

Is the course suitable for profiles without prior managerial training?

Yes, the course lays fundamentals for new managers and allows experienced ones to formalize their implicit practices.

Is multigenerational management addressed?

Yes, multigenerational management specifics (Y, Z, X cohabiting) are treated in a dedicated sequence.

Where do sessions take place?

ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.

Prix de l'inscription
CHF 1'300.-
Inclus dans ce cours
  • Training provided by a domain expert
  • Customized situational activities tailored to your challenges
  • Digital documentation and support materials
  • Achievement badge
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Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse

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Tel. 058 307 73 00

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