Build core competencies for managerial success
Course Level: Fundamental
This comprehensive program builds a solid foundation in the soft-skill competencies needed for managerial success. 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, and come away with tools and techniques you can apply immediately back at work.
The content is specifically designed for individuals who have recently assumed a managerial role and wish to make an effective transition to their new position, or for those who want a refresher in the basics. Experienced managers looking to advance their career will benefit from Advanced Management Skills—an exploration of the hard skills required to lead a department or business.
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 LevelsAs you progress up the organizational ladder, “Advanced Management Skills” will prepare you to take on the hard business skills required to run a department or business. At the highest levels, “Meeting the Leadership Challenge” will give you the skills and confidence you need to execute on your vision. “Strategy and Innovation” will provide you with strategic tools for guiding your organization over the long term. |
|||||
| Emergence | Excellence | Mastery | |||
| Essential Management Skills |
|
Advanced Management Skills | |||
 |
|||||
| Lead the self & people | Lead the business | ||||
Building Leadership at all Levels
As you progress up the organizational ladder, “Advanced Management Skills” will prepare you to take on the hard business skills required to run a department or business. At the highest levels, “Meeting the Leadership Challenge” will give you the skills and confidence you need to execute on your vision. “Strategy and Innovation” will provide you with strategic tools for guiding your organization over the long term.
Mastery
Meeting the Leadership Challenge
Lead transformation & change
Strategy & Innovation
Lead strategy & sustainability
What you will learn
This course helps build strength in these core competency areas:
- Motivation
- Communication and listening
- Team leadership
- Managing conflict and difficult behaviour
- Communicating difficult information
- Trust and fairness
- Negotiation
- Decision making
- Managing change
This course exposed me to the many areas of management and provided me with many skills I can use immediately back at work.
Program content
- Motivation: influencing and motivating people in healthy ways
- Communicating and listening: choosing the right medium for the message, keys to effective listening
- Team leadership: enhancing team decision making, productivity and performance, building positive team relationships
- Managing conflict and difficult behaviour: dealing with problem behaviours, fostering more good and less bad conflict
- Communicating difficult information, building/restoring trust during stressful times
- Trust and fairness: cultivating trust while suspending judgement, enhancing a positive organizational climate
- Effective negotiation: preparing, analyzing and conducting negotiations that meet the needs of all parties
- Making smarter decisions
- Organizational change: diagnosing the impact of change, managing resistance
Special features
This program includes a project that allows you to apply what you've learned to a real-life situation.
Your instructors
Dr. David Hannah
Erica Groschler
Upcoming sessions
Note: participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.
-
Contact a learning advisor for more details.
-
Get in touch
604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
exec.ed@sauder.ubc.caVisit our contact page for more information.
Stay in touch
Join our mailing list to receive relevant program updates and exclusive event invitations.