Management: Essential Skills for First Time Managers

Welcome to Management 101: Essential Skills for First Time Managers from LearnSmart.

LearnSmart is Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Registered Education Provider (REP 3577). This course qualifies for the above credit hours toward the PMP® or CAMP® training contact hours or toward maintaining your current certification. Thus meeting the Professional Development Unit (PDU) requirement necessary to continue their PMP® Certification or for experienced project managers wanting to brush up on their education.

If you're interested in becoming an accomplished project manager, this training will give you valuable real-life project management techniques. Learn the skills you need to be an effective project manager - this course qualifies for 4.00 PDU credit hours toward your PMP® certification from PMI®.

Course Overview:

Become an expert manager as you learn about the different responsibilities you have as a manager – such as project manager, coach, and leader – and the duties you'll have to perform. You'll start with a full introduction to management, how to lead and communicate as a manager, how to successfully and effectively make an impact as a manager, and the best ways to take control as a manager.

Course Breakdown:

Section 1: In the pre-assessment quiz you'll face questions from all sections of this project management training. Test your current knowledge and know your strengths and weaknesses.

Section 2: Discover how to be successful, you'll have to establish your authority and make good decisions by following the seven step decision-making process. You will learn how to schedule time for personal development, and to analyze tasks you and your team must complete using the important/urgent matrix. Additionally, you'll also consider how your employees learn, and consider how to respond to drivers and resistors to change. Overall, you will be better equipped as a new manager.

Section 3: Aside from adapting to a new role with increased responsibilities, new managers must learn to be leaders and explore how to communicate effectively with employees, fellow managers, and senior executives. Learn the five primary leadership roles that managers serve in business. Go through discussions about leading teams concentrating on how to lead them, about how to know when your team is being effective, and about the different stages of team development. Study how communication works and principles for chairing a meeting.

Section 4: Making an Impact as a Manager is designed to help new managers lead their employees and companies on to bigger and better things. Understand corporate strategy and identify exactly what it does; and find explanations on how to use a SWOT analysis to shape the company's culture. You will discover the importance of doing a STEP analysis to provide a framework for addressing obstacles, as well as go through discussions on the ways to improve operations and the three E's to examine performance. Gain 10 tips for improving employee commitment, empowerment, and retention to formulate an excellent team through which you can increase efficiency and impact.

Section 5: Taking Control as a Manager is designed to help new managers understand how to relate to fellow managers and other employees and how to deal with the pressures that come with the position. You will look at the seven aspects of management to invest in and different things you can do as a new manager to help win your team over; discuss performance management and using budget as a tool of control; go through the steps you can take to help employees overcome their insecurities and feel more comfortable on the job; and understand the common causes of managerial stress and strategies to overcome them. You will also learn the best practices to maintain control of your department.

Section 6: As a short Final Exam, these questions ties all the above sections in a quick review of key concepts.

Recommendations:

Learn from others! Here are some reviews from the participants enrolled in this course (Click on reviews to see full list of reviews)

• Smart method to learn - This course is helpful and using smart way to motivate thinking and understanding. The instructor has a professional delivery method, and the he materials are interesting and creative specially the flashcards and the exercises -- Ibrahim Alsayed
• This course is of high quality - This course will let you become a PMP and CAMP master and it will explain you every concept. The instructor is highly engaging and highly motivating. Can't be better. Thank you -- Saber Tlili
• Excellent class! -- I already have my PMP, but wish I had this class as a study tool prior to taking the test. I am confident that a person who studies the materials presented in this course should have no problem with the exam. I took the class for the PDUs to keep my certification up. On completion of the class I followed the instructions, and had no problem registering the credits with PMI -- Robert Vroom

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--- **Course Review Summary** **Overall Rating:** 4.35/5 **Pros:** - **Clear and Engaging Instruction:** The instructor was described as clear, energetic, and thorough, moving at a perfect pace that made the course highly accessible. - **Comprehensive Content:** The course provides a wide variety of management-related subjects and common issues, which is beneficial for preparing new managers for what to expect. - **Educative Diversity:** The content is diverse and covers many aspects of management, making it informative and helpful in fostering good best management practices. - **Entry Level Management Focus:** The course is well-suited for new managers or those at the entry level of management, offering elementary information that orients learners towards developing management skills. - **Information Quality:** The information presented was consistently rated as good, with the course being informative and easy to comprehend for beginners in management roles. **Cons:** - **Content Length and Presentation:** Some users found the course to be rather long and suggested that it might be easier to digest if broken into two or three shorter courses. The closed captioning also had inaccuracies and needed improvement for clarity. - **Assessment Methods:** There were concerns about the quizzes being vague, misleading, and providing an uncertain assessment of the students' true understanding. One user pointed out a specific error with a misspelled term in the final quiz question. - **Technical Issues:** Occasionally, playback at faster speeds was fuzzy, and some users experienced difficulties with tracking all points mentioned by the instructor when he referenced a certain number of points but only listed a few visually. **Additional Feedback:** - **Course Structure Suggestion:** A suggestion was made to divide the course into more focused, separate courses for better comprehension and learning experience. - **Quiz Question Accuracy:** It is recommended that all quiz questions are carefully reviewed to ensure they match the content delivered in the course and do not contain spelling errors that could mislead learners. - **Attention to Details:** The course received praise for its ability to keep students engaged, but it was noted that attention to detail—like ensuring all terms used in quizzes are correctly spelled—is crucial for a more effective learning experience. In summary, the course is highly rated for its informative and engaging content geared towards new managers. However, improvements are needed in the areas of content structure, quiz accuracy, and captioning precision to enhance the overall learning experience.