Who is this for?
New managers, managers who have recently changed positions within their organization, or those who wish to brush up on their skill portfolio.
"This course allowed me to look at real life examples in my everyday life and apply newly learned skills immediately. A very beneficial course for any new manager wanting to understand how to manage individuals.”
Building Leadership at all Levels
"Essential Management Skills" provides emerging leaders with the soft-skill competencies needed for managerial success. As you progress up the career ladder, “Advanced Management Skills” prepares you to take on the hard business skills required to run a department or business. At the highest levels, “Meeting the Leadership Challenge” delivers the leadership savvy you need to execute on your vision, while “Strategy and Innovation” offers strategic tools for guiding your organization over the long term.
Mastery
Meeting the Leadership Challenge
Lead transformation & change
Strategy & Innovation
Lead strategy & sustainability
Benefits for you
This program helps build strength in these core competency areas:
- Self-management
- Motivation
- Coaching
- Decision making
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Power and influence
- Networking
- Managing change
“I received numerous ideas about people motivators, as well as insights about my personal strengths and places for improvement.”
Program content
Managing Self
- Defining your purpose
- Self-assessment
Managing Others
- Managing individuals: trust and psychological safety, motivation, building individual resilience
- Coaching individuals: helping people to reach their highest potential, engaging in challenging conversations, managing your emotional reactions when dealing with difficult behaviours, giving feedback
- Managing teams: keys to team effectiveness, growing your team, building team resilience
- Decision making: avoiding common decision-making traps, improving the quality of group decisions
- Communication: listening for subtexts, managing the message, applied communication skills practice
- Coaching teams: maintaining accountability, conflict resolution and promoting cooperative relationships, facilitating improved team performance
Managing within the Organization
- Influence, persuasion and power: tailoring your message to your audience, establishing rapport and credibility, skills and strategies for exercising constructive power
- Networking: managing up, down and across, managing expectations
- Managing change: assessing the impact of change, overcoming resistance transition strategies for leading change
Capstone: Managing the Future
- Creating a plan for future development
Program leaders
Amy Stanley
Dr. Alex Trisoglio
Upcoming sessions
Oct 3 - Nov 17, 2022 (In-Person)
This program takes place on
non-consecutive days in Vancouver, BC:
Program Kick-Off | Monday, October 3
5:00pm - 6:00pm (online)
Day 1 | Wednesday, October 26
1:00pm - 4:30pm
Day 2 | Thursday, October 27
8:30am – 4:30pm
Day 3 | Friday, October 28
8:30am – 4:30pm
Weeks of October 31 & November 7
facilitated Peer Learning Group sessions (online)
Day 4 | Tuesday, November 15
8:30am – 4:30pm
Day 5 | Wednesday, November 16
8:30am – 4:30pm
Day 6 | Thursday, November 17
8:30am – 4:30pm
Weeks of November 21 & 28
facilitated Peer Learning Group sessions (online)
*times subject to change
For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .
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Contact a learning advisor for more details.
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Get in touch
604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
exec.ed@sauder.ubc.caVisit our contact page for more information.
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