Management Essentials

Managers build the basic management skills required to coach employees, deliver feedback and recognize the achievements of others.

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When you're a manager, there are some basic, essential skills everyone should have. Whether it's setting clear work priorities, building great teamwork, listening well to others, or performing a performance review. Each of the skills impact how effective you'll be as a manager.

The Management Essentials courseware will help you build these skills and others. By giving you on the job development exercises to evaluate performance, set clear expectations, and create the right level of challenging work, you'll build the skills required to be a great and motivating manager for each of your employees.

This course bundle includes the following 15 bite sized mobile ready courses:

  1. Giving Clear Work Priorities
    Employees get clear on their work priorities for the next 30 days
  2. What Employees Need
    Find out what your employees need from you, their manager
  3. Reinforce Great Teamwork
    Create a team meeting agenda item to reinforce great teamwork
  4. Valuing Employees
    Discuss with your employees why you value them, why they’re important to the team and company
  5. Listening to Others’ Ideas and Opinions
    Evaluate how well you listen to others’ ideas and opinions
  6. Problem Solving Expectations
    Create problem-solving expectations for your employees
  7. The Right Workload for Employees
    Determine if the workload is right for your employees and for the company
  8. The Great Things Employees Do
    Share with your employees the great things they do and how they make a difference
  9. An Ethics and Integrity Discussion
    Ask a leader to come talk to the team about ethics, integrity, and the company values
  10. Perform a Performance Review
    Perform a performance review with your employees
  11. Creating Challenging Work
    Increase the level of challenge an employee experiences at work
  12. Receive Feedback From Your Employees
    Receive feedback from your team on how you’re doing as a manager
  13. Creating a Great Work Situation
    Determine what factors would create a great job and work situation for your employees
  14. Evaluating Performance in the Right Way
    Determine if you're doing the right things when evaluating an employee's performance
  15. Perform a Departure Review
    Perform a departure review for your team members

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Management Development
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150:00
Product Type
E-Learning
Course ID
VB-26

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1. Giving Clear Work Priorities
There are a lot of things a person can do to be successful in one's job, but knowing what work must be achieved is one of the more important items. Knowing what work must be delivered and when helps anyone stay focused and achieve success within their role. Without this information, we tend to be un... read more
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2. What Employees Need
While there are a number of common things most employees may want, we must remember that different people are different. Each of us has a slightly unique set of needs that when in place enable us to do our job well and perform at the highest level. There is a great benefit in finding out what each o... read more
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3. Reinforce Great Teamwork
A teamwork culture is developed when cooperation becomes a priority, is consistently talked about, and best practices and solutions are shared with others. By creating a teamwork culture, co-workers learn from each other's experience, can ask for help when needed, and increase their contribution to ... read more
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4. Valuing Employees
Feeling valued and important at work is critical for everyone. We all want to believe our work and contribution matters to the team and organization. We want to know we are valued for who we are and what we do. When we think our contribution and effort doesn't matter, our motivation and desire to wo... read more
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5. Listening to Others Ideas and Opinions
Managers in particular must make sure they take the time to really listen to their employees. As leaders, you set the tone for the working relationships on your team, and send the message that you value each person. By not listening, employees may wonder if you value their thoughts and opinions, and... read more
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6. Problem Solving Expectations
Having the authority to make decisions and solve problems on our own is essential to creating a great work situation. When we have this type of authority we feel trusted, competent, and believe we are a valued contributor to the organization. In addition, since we're not relying on others to tell us... read more
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7. The Right Workload for Employees
Having a good balance between work and our personal life is important. We want to meet our commitments at work while at the same time have the opportunity to meet our personal needs too. As a manager, it's a wonderful thing to create great work-life balance for your employees, however you also need ... read more
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8. The Great Things Employees Do
While your employees need direction, coaching, and feedback to be successful, what they really want is to be motivated and inspired to be their best. They want to know they are valued, can make a difference, and have the opportunity to do something great; and if you consider the various people your ... read more
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9. An Ethics and Integrity Discussion
Ethics, values and integrity all play an important role in creating a work environment employees can be proud of and want to be a part of. Ethical behavior and integrity are an essential component of success and must be consistently discussed and talked about. When integrity and ethics are part of a... read more
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10. Perform a Performance Review
Performance reviews are an essential component of our work. These reviews may be formal, end of the year discussions, or they may be short informal feedback sessions. Either way, receiving information about one's performance is key for anyone's success. Performance feedback helps us know what we're ... read more
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11. Creating Challenging Work
As a manager, if you want your employees to engage and perform, you must help each employee find the right level of challenging work. Challenging work looks different for everyone and some may need more than others, but all employees need challenging work to stay excited and committed to their job. ... read more
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12. Receive Feedback From Your Employees
As a manager, asking for feedback is a great way to create a collaborative working relationship with your employees. When you ask how well you've provided support and coaching, as well as find out what you can do differently to support each person, you'll definitely learn a few things. In addition, ... read more
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13. Creating a Great Work Situation
As a leader in a company, one of the most important things you must do is create the right environment that will cause your employees to make the decision to engage in their work and stay with the organization. Only when employees are truly engaged and want to stay in their jobs will great individua... read more
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14. Evaluating Performance in the Right Way
Performance reviews are a part of any manager's life. While there are differences among companies, most likely you're required to conduct a formal performance review once a year with each of your employees. You may even be asked to give additional reviews throughout the year. Although it's a require... read more
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15. Perform a Departure Review
If you want to tackle the issue of turnover you need to know when your employees may leave. Knowing who is at risk for departure creates the opportunity for you to proactively take action. You may choose to create a work situation that will cause the person to stay, or you may just need to plan for ... read more
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