Becoming a better boss
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. You will also work with a small group of your peers, facilitated by a Sauder Associate Coach. To ensure you are fully embedding your learning in the workplace, you will re-engage with your coach and peer group after the program to share your experiences and develop an ongoing plan of action.
Hear from your peers
Essential Management Skills – Hear from your peers
The learning journey
Delivered in two in-person modules spread approximately one month apart, Essential Management Skills incorporates program preparation, instruction, interactive and experiential plenary sessions, group discussions and facilitated peer learning. There is also a "meet and greet" introductory session, as well as intermodular and post-program group coaching sessions online.
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.”
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 developmental 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
We will also be inviting thought leaders in the field of Management and Organizational Behaviour, giving you access to a broad range of experts and business leaders.
Upcoming sessions
April 3 - May 19, 2023 (In-Person)
In-person sessions take place on
non-consecutive days in Vancouver, BC:
Program Kick-Off | April 3, 2023
5:00pm - 6:00pm (online)
Module One | April 19 - 21, 2023
8:30am - 4:30pm
Module Two | May 17 - 19, 2023
8:30am - 4:30pm
*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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