Management Essentials Stackable

This module is designed for new and emerging managers with minimal experience of managing. Participants will be introduced to core management styles and theories. They will have an opportunity to practice the fundamental and practical skills for managing, including the key elements of management; from goal setting to delegation.

In this module participants will explore the fundamentals of budgeting and spreadsheets. They will practice preparing and interpreting income statements and balance sheets. Participants will identify and practice asking the right questions to successfully create, present, and manage a budget and explore approaches for communicating financial information and results to stakeholders, executives, colleagues and project teams.

This module provides an overview of interpersonal communication in the workplace. The participant will be given tools and strategies, and an opportunity to practice improving their interpersonal communication skills. Participants explore how interpersonal communication skills can affect our messages, learn how to recognize barriers to communication, and practice techniques to eliminate them.

In addition, the participant will be introduced to interpersonal communication across cultures and how perceptions on this topic can affect messaging.

In this module the new and emerging manager is introduced to the fundamentals of how to effectively recruit and hire staff based on federal and state regulations to ensure consistent, legal and fair hiring processes.

The participant will be introduced to the stages of the recruitment process including how to create a proper job description, understand how to apply principles of inclusion and qualify applicants based on qualifications defined for the position.

Techniques and best practices for effective record keeping, establishing an ideal search committee and how to define and create competency based interview questions will also be provided to the participant.

The benefits of a positive work environment are well-documented. Research has shown that employee creativity, productivity and happiness go up and stress levels shrink significantly when they are able to work in a healthy and positive organizational environment and culture.

In this module participants will gain knowledge, techniques and strategies for creating and developing a positive work culture.

The Effective Performance Management module will introduce the core theories, principles and foundational strategies for creating a motivating environment that encourages people to perform at their best. The participant will examine and apply the process and tools for delivering and implementing an effective employee performance plan. Participants will practice developing, setting and clearly communicating results based goals and expectations. Strategies for addressing and resolving workplace behavior issues and performance problems will be identified and applied during the module.