Course Description
"Management Essentials" is an online training course that will hone your management skills, such as planning, organizing, decision-making, leadership, communication, and more. Being a business manager can be quite taxing because of the many responsibilities you have on your shoulders. That is why you need to master essential skills to accomplish goals and objectives for your organization. This course will help you become an effective and efficient manager.
At the end of this training, you will have a better understanding of the importance of management and its basic components. You will also learn the different types of decision-making that you can rely on in day-to-day operations for the company. Ultimately, this course will help you create a positive working environment with contingency planning, delegating and managing your team well, and overcoming barriers in communication.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the essentials of management in business
- Accomplish goals and objectives through management skills
- Delegate tasks and manage teams
- Overcome barriers of communication
- Create a positive working environment
- Be decisive
What You'll Learn
- Learn the essentials of management in business, including its importance and basic components
- Apply management functions, levels, and managerial skills to accomplish organizational goals and objectives
- Make decisions using the different types of decision-making managers rely on in day-to-day operations
- Delegate tasks and manage teams effectively, including managing at different levels
- Apply contingency planning and set a hierarchy of objectives to create a positive working environment
- Overcome barriers in communication and use authority, power, and empowerment
Key Takeaways
- Effective management draws on essential skills such as planning, organizing, decision-making, leadership, and communication.
- Understanding the importance of management and its basic components helps a manager accomplish goals and objectives for the organization.
- Managers can rely on different types of decision-making for day-to-day company operations.
- A positive working environment is built through contingency planning, delegating, managing teams well, and overcoming barriers in communication.
- The course covers management approaches including scientific, bureaucratic, and administrative management.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
Management Essentials is for business managers who want to hone management skills such as planning, organizing, decision-making, leadership, and communication to accomplish goals and objectives for their organization.
What will I be able to do after completing this course?
You will understand the importance of management and its basic components, learn the different types of decision-making for day-to-day operations, and be able to create a positive working environment through contingency planning, delegating, managing your team, and overcoming barriers in communication.
What topics does this course cover?
The course covers defining management, components and functions of management, levels of management, managerial skills, scientific, bureaucratic, and administrative management, how managers make decisions and problem solve, managing at different levels, contingency planning, the hierarchy of objectives, and authority, power, and empowerment.
What skills will I gain from this course?
You will gain organizational skills, team management, handling unit management, management styles, management training and development, and managerial communications.
What format is this course delivered in?
Management Essentials is an online training course organized into lessons and chapters, each with an overview and chapter summary.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Continuing Development Units (CDUs): 1.25
KnowledgeCity is an endorsed education approved provider for the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) for CCBA®, CBAP®. KnowledgeCity courses can assist learners with their continuing development units (CDUs).
