Management Training Australia delivers a range of in-house and public management and leadership training to organisations and individuals throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific. We deliver programs to frontline, middle and senior managers. We specialise in equipping people to supervise, inspire, influence and relate to other people. We maintain a commitment to quality and employ highly experienced, entertaining and respected presenters. All of our presenters have extensive industry experience and we are committed to developing the ability and motivation of managers at every level of an organisation.
We deliver our programs in-house or in hotels and conference centres
The presenters at Management Training Australia are experienced managers who also have highly developed presentation skills. All of our presenters hold current management positions so their experience is current and ongoing.. They have extensive experience of management in business, government, community and educational organisations. All of the training is Australian based, and delivered in a practical and entertaining way. Participants finish the training not only equipped for greater success, but also motivated to work more cooperatively with their colleagues.
Wayne Back
Wayne Back is the Managing Director of Organisational Development International, a diagnostic and development organisation that provides targeted change management programs. Wayne has held a range of management positions from frontline manager to CEO as well as held positions on several boards. He trains frontline, middle and senior managers throughout Australia and the Pacific. Wayne has spent 25 years in training and management in business, government, educational and NFP sectors. He combines humour, high level interaction with high take home value to give people concrete ways to develop their range of management skills. In his management roles he has supervised a wide variety of people, including payroll staff, scientists, counsellors, administrators, and other managers. Originally trained as a physicist, he then completed three other degrees including a masters in management. He delivers our frontline, middle and senior management programs
Erin Sciola
Erin Sciola is the former General Manager of Communications and then acting CEO at the Oaktree Foundation, an aid and development organisation with a national management team and over 350 team members. Erin has had extensive experience in management, training and building organisations for the past 8 years. Having presented to audiences from 20 to 1000 both in Australia and overseas, Erin is an experienced presenter who loves to engage people in learning and positive change. Her educational background is in international relations, management and psychology and her personal interest and research is around GenerationY and how the characteristics of GenY can be empowering to a workplace environment. Erin delivers our range of frontline management programs. Erin currently works as a Business Development Manager
Barton Castley
Barton has led highly successful sales and management teams at a national level. As the former National Training Manager of a multinational company he was entrusted with strategic development of future management resources. Separately as the National Sales and Human Resource Manager of a large retail chain he reengineered their management structure and sales force to record breaking results. More recently Barton has been consulting to medium size companies specifically in the executive business to business sales sector as well as founding and selling multiple successful small businesses of his own. He is currently the Director of Memories of a Lifetime, a company that provides solutions to Australia’s Funeral Directors. Barton has dynamic, practical and down to earth presentation skills that not only motivate and educate participants, but also leave them equipped to achieve greater results
Amanda Antcliff
Amanda presents at workshops and conferences in Australia and overseas and has particular experience in the health and environmental industry. Amanda is a dynamic communicator and her style is entertaining, interactive and practical. She was originally educated in science and has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Amanda is also an experienced business coach and has helped people to design their futures, build their careers, perform at higher levels and embark on new ventures. She is the Managing Director of yourcafecoach.com.au which specialises in one -on -one and group coaching sessions. She has been involved in establishing four small successful businesses, is a published author and presenter of ‘Doses of Inspiration’ on the TV show ‘Positive Hits’.
Nina Christian
Nina Christian is the MD at Envision Marketing, a marketing & project management company that provides services to organisations in the areas of Sport, Media, IT, and Tourism. She was formerly General Manager of International Sports Marketing agency PB Promotions, where she oversaw Olympic and major event hospitality and marketing programs for leading companies such as DaimlerChrysler, Bayer, Nokia, Bosch & Siemens as well as foreign governments and media groups. In recent years has also worked extensively in the technology and online business sectors. Nina is a seasoned trainer and presenter, having been engaged for a wide variety of assignments within Australia and internationally over the last 15 years. She has a passion for seeing individuals and organisations reach their potential, and her relatable style communicates principles to a wide audience in an easy-to-understand-and-implement format.
David Lancaster
David has an MBA and more than 25 years experience in developing and delivering business and life education and has extensive experience in guiding those who need to redesign or redirect their career path. David has experience includes behavioural analysis into sales and team dynamics including experiential team-building programs. David has developed and presented programs in front-line management, leadership, and conflict management. David is certified to use and to train others in the use and application of the Disc behavioural model through the Institute for Motivational Living in the USA and is an Accredited Coach through the IAC (International Association of Coaches). He has managed a wide range of HR related projects, overseeing project teams and has engaged in leadership and management training, facilitating planning meetings and performance coaching staff at all levels. This includes training business owners, senior managers, and staff within large & small businesses, government departments, and authorities.
Malcolm Lelievre
Malcolm assists local and international organisations to create new performance strategies and implement those strategies through engaging the broader organisation. He facilitates performance enhancement using advisory services and proprietary performance programs that liberate people’s talents and capability and provide a pathway for success personally and corporately. He is an experienced advisor to organisations in strategic planning, people performance, culture, organisational development and business performance. He has been a performance advisor and strategy team leader for Global Businesses. Deputy Head of Australasian Business group; Integration Director for merging companies; Commercial Director for Australasian Business group; Director and Head of a large Joint Venture Company based in China; Business Development Leader across Asia. Worked for BP for 17 years, based out of Melbourne, Sydney, London, Wellington and Shanghai. Malcolm delivers our senior and middle management programs.
Featured Workshop - Workplace Climate
Workplace climate is the prevailing workplace atmosphere as experienced by employees. It is what it feels like to work in a place. Experience in industry has shown that a positive work climate can account for nearly 30 percent of improvements in financial results.
Managers can often sense when the work climate is affecting staff’s performance. There are tell-tale signs that a work climate may be less than optimal and that staff may be holding back the “discretionary,” or extra, effort they could bring to their jobs.
You will learn how to identify key climate dimensions in your team
You will do a workplace climate assessment of your team (this is normally completed before the workshop and the results discussed at the workshop
You will identify ways strengthen these dimensions of climate.
In particular, you will be empowered to lift the workplace climate through the following “dimensions of climate”.
Clarity - Helping your team to be clear about the the organisation’s direction and how they fit into that direction. You will develop a strategy canvas for your organisation or department
Flexibility - How to keep unnecessary rules to a minimum and encourage new ideas. How to recognise and prevent groupthink.
Responsibility - How to give away as much decision making as possible. Learn the art of delegation and how to give away authority with responsibility and accountability
Standards - How to improve perfomance through goal setting. Learn what makes goal setting work and why it often does not work
Rewards - How to encourage performance through rewards that are valuable to the individual. You will learn 6 frameworks to consider how to motivate the individuals on your team
Team Commitment - How to help people to be committed to your team. How to build cohesion in your team.