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Managerial skills and specific contexts

When developing your management skills, remember that the key skills and competencies needed will differ based on your industry. This is why situational awareness is crucial. For example, managing a …

Checklist of management competencies

Professor Gretchen Spreitzer and her colleagues at the University of Southern California wanted to create a tool to measure the potential of future international executives. They made a draft questionnaire …

What is people management?

While many of the competencies we explore might seem like common-sense to you, there are still many managers using outdated approaches and styles based on old thinking about what management …

Skills for effective managing

If you search online for key management skills, you’ll find many lists with different words but similar ideas. Management roles and functions change but also stay the same, and so …

Approaches to learning

One of the most critical elements of being a successful online learner is recording your thoughts, observations and reflections about your learning. There are two ways you can engage reflectively …

Course structure

Your learning journey Over the next four weeks, we will introduce the essential skills of people management. Week 1: Introduction to managing people Week 2: The roles and functions of …

Welcome to the course!

This course will develop your understanding of what managing people is all about and how you can develop the strategies to effectively attract, motivate, manage and retain the right people …