PBMME - Developing Your Managerial Effectiveness
Course Description
Developing Your Managerial Effectiveness, offered by LSU Continuing Education’s Management & Leadership Institute, is a follow up program to LSU’s Fundamentals of Supervision (FOS) program. This interactive seminar is designed to deliver practical management training for first-line supervisors as well as mid-managers. The program gives supervisors and other business professionals the opportunity to build their leadership and interpersonal skills, as well as, add to their management expertise. Experienced instructors prepare managers to face trends in the business world by providing practical solutions to real-world problems.
An outstanding faculty of recognized management and supervisory training experts offers participants the best possible opportunity to enhance their professional skills and prepare for new management responsibilities. Interaction with colleagues in different business areas and disciplines provides a chance to discover how other organizations act, react and interact in the working world. Participants are exposed to problems and solutions in industries other than their own.
Major topics to be presented include:
- Understanding and Managing Workplace Motivation
- Review motivation models and learn how to diagnose and deal with motivation-related performance problems.
- Managing Up and Down the Organizational Hierarchy
- Review the dynamics and recommended strategies for influencing change within the organization.
- Managing Conflict and Coping with Difficult People
- Understand human conflict and learn how to mediate conflict between others.
- Understanding Your Personality Type and Managing Workplace Behavior
- Gain insight about your own personality and learn how to manage different personalities in the workplace.
This course is ideal for:
- Supervisors and managers, in general, as well as those who have participated in LSU’s FOS program.
- Supervisors and managers interested in developing their managerial potential and improving their effectiveness.
Key benefits of participation:
- Review motivational models and learn to diagnose motivation-related performance problems.
- Identify organizational policies and practices inhibiting motivation.
- Learn how to influence others.
- Understand the causes of interpersonal conflict on the job.
- Develop interpersonal skills and confidence in managing interpersonal conflicts.
- Learn how to provide feedback to others.
- Learn more about your own personality and behavior tendencies.
- Develop an awareness of successful and effective leadership styles and behaviors.
For more information about this course, email Answers or call 833-280-5634.
As an Authorized Training Partner for the Project Management Institute (PMI), this course is pre-approved for Professional Development Units, or PDU's, needed for PMI certifications. This includes PDU's needed to take PMI certifications and for PMI Professionals to maintain their credentials like the Project Management Professional, or PMP®.
PMI, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Body of Knowledge, and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Management and Leadership Certificate Program : Management and Leadership Certificate
English Proficiency Requirements
Continuing Education Programs
Continuing Education (CE) courses and programs offered online through LSU Online & Continuing Education typically include a combination of lecture and discussion as well as reading and writing assignments. You need an adequate command of English in all skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) to participate in classes.
If English is not your native language, you must meet one of the English language proficiency requirements below to be successful in our CE programs. If you intend to register for a CE course or program, you can determine whether you meet English proficiency requirements by self-assessment prior to enrolling. We want to empower you, the learner, to progress successfully. Completing this self-assessment will enable you to make a good decision on whether you can complete one of our programs.
Intermediate English Skills
Most CE professional development courses and programs require at least intermediate English skills, which are equivalent to a B2 level of English language proficiency on the Self-Assessment Form. When assessing yourself, be sure to read through each of the categories under Column B2 to make sure you meet proficiency requirements.
Advanced English Skills
Online Distance Learning courses and microcreds are for-credit courses and might require more advanced English skills, equivalent to a C1 level on the Learner Self-Assessment Form. Be sure to read through each of the categories under Column C1 to make sure you meet proficiency requirements.