Skills for Highly Effective Managers: Influence Teams, Make Decisions and Deliver With Impact

The Empowered Manager: Skills to Influence, Decide, and Deliver

Today’s managers are no longer just task overseers—they are leaders, influencers, and strategists navigating fast-paced, ever-evolving environments. The Empowered Manager is an intensive, hands-on program designed to equip both new and experienced managers with the strategic mindsets, practical tools, and people-centric skills to drive real results. Through interactive exercises, leadership diagnostics, and scenario-based simulations, participants will strengthen their capabilities in communication, delegation, decision-making, and influence, enabling them to lead with clarity and confidence.

Translating Strategy into Action

This course bridges the gap between theory and practice, empowering managers to translate strategic intent into impactful execution. Participants will explore proven frameworks to manage both upward and downward effectively, fostering alignment and accountability across teams. By mastering actionable techniques to influence, decide, and deliver, managers will emerge not only more confident and competent—but also equipped to create empowered teams and sustain high performance within their organizations.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between leadership and management, and identify key traits of highly effective managers
• Assess and leverage both positional and personal power to influence others effectively
• Apply situational leadership and management styles to adapt to different team and task contexts
• Delegate with clarity and accountability using the 4 principles of effective delegation
• Master the fine Art of Influence
• Make smarter decisions using structured and intuitive models while avoiding common pitfalls

Learning Methodology

• Bite-size knowledge sharing with skills practise. 
• Demonstrations and Role-Plays
• Experiential workshop setting
• Activities are designed with real-work scenarios to facilitate learning transfer at the workplace

This course is ideal for:

• New Managers & Team Leads transitioning into leadership roles and seeking a solid foundation in people and performance management
• Mid-Level Managers looking to refresh their leadership toolbox and elevate their strategic execution skills
• Project Leaders & Functional Heads managing cross-functional teams and driving results through influence rather than authority
• Aspiring Managers preparing for promotion or future leadership responsibilities

“ I’m glad to know of and engaged Maximus-the Xcellent Coach, whom is one of, if not, the most professional, enthusiastic coach whom shared a strong passion towards his role of bringing the best out of every individual. There was never a dull moment during his training session with his highly engaging training style and well balanced trainer/trainee exchanges approach. He continuously engages trainee to go through critical thinking by triggering the right questions, allows trainee to discover his/her potential with his coaching technique and always have the willingness imparting trainee with his wealth of knowledge. I really enjoyed my time during the group training and individual coaching session had with Max. Would highly recommend fellow professionals whom looking to further excel in work & life, to engage Maximus – the Xcellent Coach! “ – Lucas Yeap (GM)

Maximus was assigned to cover some topics with our company as a trainer. He was more of a facilitator, taking a more dynamic approach to sharing his knowledge through interaction with and amongst the attendees. I have also had the chance to receive some coaching sessions from him and it allowed me to know myself better. He respects all opinions, listens attentively, and is able to provide insightful comments which are thought-provoking and guides us to grow as a person. His sessions are truly enjoyable and there is always something to take away. Don't take my word for it, attend his sessions yourself. Thank you Maximus! – David Goh

Maximus – a Trainer here with us with great knowledge. His training skills are great, all of us are able to understand his teaching and are able to take lots of understanding and value from his teachings as well. With his excellent coaching skill, I would strongly recommend Maximus. – Eugene Tan (Admin Manager)

I have attended countless seminars and courses throughout my professional and personal life. Maximus is definitely one of the very few trainers who has vast knowledge in the subject matter as well as the extraordinary ability to ensure the attendees are completely engaged from start to end of the session. I truly enjoyed being Maximus’s student. – Satish Shanmugam (Project Director)

“IN-Resilience. OUT-Perform” - Gain Inner Clarity. Discover The Will Forward.  

Maximus Sia

Certified as an Associate Coach by the International Association of Coaching Institutes (ICI, Germany), Maximus Sia is highly sought after for his expertise in Resilience, Sales & Leadership and Executive Coaching. As a Trainer, Public Speaker and Performance Coach in Resilience Leadership, he has empowered over 50,000 participants to achieve excellence in work & Life over his 16 years in the industry. In his passion to help people grow, and witnessing the tremendous mental pressure Leaders experienced in meeting up to the demands of this VUCA era, he explores psychological resources to help Leaders develop “Sustainable Mental Resilience”. He further his work as a doctoral candidate in PhD in Professional Coaching and Human Development with the International University of Professional Studies (IUPS, USA)). His research focuses on integrating psychological practices into Leadership Development to build Sustainable Mental Strength & Resilience. Maximus is a certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Enneagram (NLE- IEA) personality profiling and a certified NLP Master Practitioner (AB-NLP). As a Sales Coach, his sales experience spans over 35 years. He constantly received positive endorsements from his participants on his engaging facilitation & motivational style. To increase his range, Maximus facilitates more than 100 training modules, covering Professional Coaching & Human Development, Leadership & People Management, Service Excellence, Business & Strategic Management.

Maximus conducts performance training in Singapore and Asia. His clientele includes Singapore Airlines (SIA), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and its entities, A*Star, Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), MINDEF, Yamato Transport, Chugai Pharmabody Research, SingTel, OCBC, AIA Singapore. Prior to his Performance Coaching career, Maximus was among the Top Performers in the challenging Financial Planning industry, achieving outstanding sales records spanning over 16 years. He was a multiple awards winner and a global convention qualifier.