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Preparing to Manage - Skills and Practices

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Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5 | Equivalent to QCF (UK): Level 3

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Improve your management skills

By Publisher: Connexions | Factsheet

Successful business management practices implemented by skilled and knowledgeable managers are vital for the continued success and growth of any business. This free online course introduces you to essential business management skills and practices. The course starts by asking what management is, and reviews managerial characteristics and skills. The course covers topics such as managing external relationships such as with customers and suppliers. It introduces management accounting practices and procedures, best practices for managing and using information systems, how to manage information about business competitors, and best practices for human resources management in terms of selecting, training and appraising employees. This course is ideal for business professionals who are working in established companies and who want to prove a basic competency and knowledge of business management matters, and also to learn more about successful business management skills and practices.

Modules in Preparing to Manage - Skills and Practices

Module 1: What is Management? Module 2: Managerial Characteristics and Skills Module 3: Managing External Relationships Module 4: Managing the Accounts Module 5: Managing the Information systems Module 6: Managing Competitive Intelligence Module 7: Managing Employees Module 8: Business Management Skills and Practices Assessment
Learning Outcome

Upon completion of this course you will gain a good knowledge of management and the characteristics of an effective manager. You will understand how to manage external relationships, accounts, information systems, competitive intelligence and employees successfully.

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Comments & Reviews

  • Rita Hadebe - Botswana

    2013-05-12 16:05:47

    Course Module: Module 1: What is Management?Course Topic: Demands, Constraints and ChoicesComment: Very interesting

  • Rita Hadebe - Botswana

    2013-05-10 21:05:48

    Course Module: Module 1: What is Management?Course Topic: What Do Managers Actually Do?Comment: A manager aligns the organisation vision and goals to the performance of his people.

  • Ariami Ahmad - Qatar

    2013-02-19 10:02:56

    Course Module: Module 2: Managerial Characteristics and Skills
    Course Topic: Characteristics of an Effective Manager
    Comment: Interesting to learnt the complexity of the management skills required, not only on the technical skills but a complete set of technical, human, conceptual and politics as well

  • Ariami Ahmad - Qatar

    2013-02-18 16:02:49

    Course Module: Module 1: What is Management?
    Course Topic: What Do Managers Actually Do?
    Comment: Interesting to know that a new manager would be frustrating with the facts that they would need to tend to day to day task or urgent task instead of focusing on more major task like planning, organizing, leading, coordinating and controlling. And how contradict is the world of management.

  • Julia Johanning - United States of America

    2013-01-13 15:01:11

    Course Module: Module 1: What is Management?
    Course Topic: Demands, Constraints and Choices
    Comment: my comments on this course are: very detailed in information. i was amazed at the well defined breakdown of what a manager means.