Executive Education

Essential Management Skills

Build core competencies for managerial success

Program Level: Fundamental

This comprehensive program builds a solid foundation in the critical skills needed to successfully manage people. Understand yourself as an effective leader of people. Diagnose typical business situations and determine how best to manage them. Engage in practical exercises that focus on your own day-to-day issues. Come away with tools and techniques you can apply immediately back at work.

The program features a self-assessment to help you discover your leadership strengths and their impact in building relationships. Additionally you will work with a small group of your peers, facilitated by a professional Executive Coach. To ensure you are fully embedding your learning in the workplace, you will re-engage with your coach and peer group about one month post-program to share your experiences and develop an ongoing plan of action.

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Online program format

This online program is distributed over nine days. The live, facilitator-led sessions are highly interactive, enabling you to network with peers, brainstorm ideas, engage in skill-building activities and receive constructive feedback from a professional executive coach.

Overview of September Session:

Sep 23 - Oct 8 (Online Real Time)

$3995.00 + tax (5%)

expandProgram Schedule

This program takes place on
non-consecutive days
(all times are Pacific Time zone)

Day 1 | Thursday, September 23
9:00am - 1:00pm: Intro & Coaching Groups

Day 2 | Monday, September 27
9:00am – 12:30pm: Motivating Others

Day 3 | Tuesday, September 28
9:00am – 12:00pm: Communication Skills
1:00pm – 4:30pm: Dealing with Difficult People

Day 4 | Wednesday, September 29
9:00am – 12:00pm: Managing Conflict
1:00pm – 4:30pm: Negotiation Skills

Day 5 | Friday, October 1
9:00am – 12:30pm: Trust and Teamwork

Day 6 | Monday, October 4
9:00am – 12:30pm: Decision Making

Day 7 | Wednesday, October 6
9:00am – 12:30pm: Power and Influence

Day 8 | Friday, October 8
9:00am – 1:00pm: Managing Change
Coaching Groups Action Planning

Week of November 1 | Coaching Groups

Learn more about Essential Management Skills

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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.”

Dave Tupniak - Director of Sales (Western US), Venus Concept

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.

Emergence

Essential Management Skills
Lead the self & people

Excellence

Advanced Management Skills
Lead the business

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:

Motivation
Communication
Managing conflict and difficult behaviour
Trust and teamwork
Power and influence
Negotiation
Decision making
Managing change

“I received numerous ideas about people motivators, as well as insights about my personal strengths and places for improvement.”

Eric Hill – Maintenance Coordinator, Enbridge

Program content

Motivating others: improving your ability to see situations through the eyes of your people, thinking creatively about how to motivate employees
Communication: keys to effective communication, applied communication skills practice
Dealing with difficult people: managing your stories and reactions to difficult people by using clear communication tools that deepen your understanding of the person and the situation
Managing conflict: using conflict resolution skills and an awareness of your own conflict style preferences to manage conflict effectively
Negotiation: preparing for negotiations and applied negotiation skills practice
Trust and teamwork: fostering trust and safety with teams, enhancing group decision making, performance and productivity
Decision making: avoiding common biases and traps that can shape the decisions you and others make, using numbers to make smarter decisions
Power and influence: skills and strategies for influencing people’s behaviours in order to obtain desired outcomes
Managing change: change and transition strategies to lead change for yourself and others

Special features

Self-assessment to help you discover your leadership strengths
Coaching sessions with a small group of your peers and a professional Executive Coach during and after the program

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Program leaders

Erica Groschler

Erica runs her own consulting business focusing on organizational design, leadership, team development, change and organizational culture. Her clients have included organizations in industries such as healthcare, high-tech and engineering.

Dr. David Hannah

David is an award-winning researcher, teacher, speaker and management professor who has worked with numerous international corporations as well as corporate leaders and boards. His interests focus on leadership, negotiations, decision making and how workers cope with intensely emotional work. His clients have included BC Hydro, MacDonald Dettwiler and PMC-Sierra.

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