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 necessary for managerial success. As you progress up the organizational 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 skills and savvy you need to execute on your vision, while “Strategy and Innovation” offers strategic tools for guiding your organization over the long term. |
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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:
- Motivation
- Communication and listening
- Team leadership
- Managing conflict and difficult behaviour
- Communicating difficult information
- Trust and fairness
- Negotiation
- Decision making
- Managing change
“I received numerous ideas about people motivators, as well as insights about my personal strengths and places for improvement.”
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.
Program leaders
Erica Groschler
Dr. David Hannah
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.
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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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