Online Training

The Successful Manager: Managing People

To be successful and move ahead in his or her career, a manager must understand how to manage people, including motivating workers and coordinating their activities. This course will explain how the goals, empowerment, measurement system of management can be employed, how organization structures differ, as well as the difficulty of discipline while trying to maintain momentum. This course is based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Principles of Management, a text used at Harvard Business School.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Understand your own attitudes toward empowering management
• Explain how a GEM (goals, empowerment, measurement) approach to managing works in practice
• Describe the major organizational structures and the differences between them
• Explain the different factors that motivate workers and how a manager can use them to improve employee performance
• Discuss the challenges of discipline and how a manager should deal with such situations
• Identify the defining characteristics, benefits, and unique challenges of empowered teams

This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 30 days.

Target Audience: This course is designed for adult learners and/or managers.

Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites

Estimated time to complete: 2-4 hours

Cost: $79.00

Duration: 30 days

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