Newer and aspiring managers are often exceptional in their individual contributor roles, but may lack the knowledge, skills or approaches to help them be successful as managers. The Management Essentials series of certificates provides focused, topical ideas and guidance to get them started on their management journey, including Management Essentials, which focuses on must-know policies, as well as Managing Remote Teams and more.

Management Essentials

With the increased responsibilities inherent in a management role comes the need for attention to your own development. Management Essentials is an online certificate program that supports the fundamental learning, knowledge, and skills you will need to be a successful manager at Drexel. The courses listed below are included in the certificate. This certificate program should take approximately two hours to complete.

• Family Medical Leave – What You Need to Know
• Introductory Period – Lending a Hand to Your Professional Staff 
• Legal Interviewing 
• Managing Performance Issues 
• Goal Setting in Career Pathway 

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Managing Remote Teams

In an increasingly virtual world, it’s essential for anyone managing a remote team to learn tools and strategies to make the most of that environment. In Management Essentials: Managing Remote Teams, you will learn about developing and leading remote teams and how encouraging engagement, wellness, and communication can enhance your remote team’s experience. Management Essentials: Managing Remote Teams includes the courses listed below, and others. It will take approximately four hours to complete.

• Transitioning to Remote Work for Managers
• Virtual Teams: Setting Communication Standards 
• A Guide to Managing Remote Teams
• Micro-Module: Creating an Inclusive Remote Environment
• Overcoming Common Challenges of Remote Managers

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Project Management

Newer managers often struggle with holding meaningful performance reviews, providing feedback effectively, and having hard conversations when things go wrong, yet these skills are essential to a manager’s – and their team members’ – success. The Management Essentials: Performance Management certificate offers courses to get you thinking about – and practicing – ways to hold these important conversations. Management Essentials: Performance Management includes the courses listed below, as well as others. This certificate program will take approximately two hours to complete.

• Setting Goals That Actually Work
• The Art of Management: Performance Management
• 5 Leadership Styles to Boost Performance
• Effective Feedback Strategies
• Micro-Module: How to Effectively Manage Managers

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Performance Management

Newer managers often struggle with holding meaningful performance reviews, providing feedback effectively, and having hard conversations when things go wrong, yet these skills are essential to a manager’s – and their team members’ – success. The Management Essentials: Performance Management certificate offers courses to get you thinking about – and practicing – ways to hold these important conversations. Management Essentials: Performance Management includes the courses listed below, as well as others. This certificate program will take approximately two hours to complete.

• Setting Goals That Actually Work
• The Art of Management: Performance Management
• 5 Leadership Styles to Boost Performance
• Effective Feedback Strategies
• Micro-Module: How to Effectively Manage Managers

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Mastering Management

As managers gain experience and build their skills, the need for enhanced, more nuanced skills arises. A manager might ask, “How do I help my team handle more complex interactions?” or “How can we create an environment that empowers team members?”. Management Essentials: Mastering Management offers perspectives to help a manager build skills in these areas using the courses listed below, and many more. It will take approximately 3.5 hours to complete.

• A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Team Conflict
• Create an Enviable Team Culture
• Develop a Thriving Team
• How to Recognize and Overcome Bias – Featuring Bestselling Author Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt – NBIC
• How to Support Your Team’s Mental Health

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The Next Big Idea Club

Reading or hearing from experts in a field can sometimes help us to see things in new ways. The Next Big Idea Club courses are based on non-fiction books that provide new perspectives on specific areas of focus. Management Essentials: The Next Big Idea Club offers the courses listed below, and many more, that look at leadership topics in new ways. It will take approximately four hours to complete.

• Daniel Coyle on the Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• Harnessing Emotions in the Workplace with Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
• How to Recognize and Overcome Bias – Featuring Bestselling Author Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
• Steven Johnson on Farsighted Decisions
• Zachary Wood on Having Uncomfortable Conversations About Sensitive Issues

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The Leader in You

Newer managers will often focus on gaining confidence and skill in management activities – managing the team and the individuals on it, holding meaningful performance conversations, learning how to interview and hire, and getting the work done. Once those skills become more integrated into their practice, demonstrating leadership becomes the next level of learning. Management Essentials: The Leader in You offers the courses listed below, and many more, to help you gain confidence in your leadership. It will take approximately four hours to complete.

• A Blueprint for Effective Workplace Leadership
• Daniel Coyle on the Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• The Difference Between Managers and Leaders
• Ethical Leadership
• Leading Through Change

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Fostering an Enviable Team Culture

Do you know of a team that everyone wants to work on? If so, there are likely several reasons for that. It might be the team members, or the function of the team, or it may be something else about the team – its leader – that draws people in. The leader of that team probably pays special attention to the intangibles of team culture, which in turn creates high performance and that attractive quality you’ve noticed. Management Essentials: Fostering an Enviable Team Culture offers the courses listed below, and many more, to provide perspectives and strategies for building a team that everyone wants to join. It will take approximately five hours to complete.

• Create an Enviable Team Culture
• Daniel Coyle on the Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• Ethical Leadership
• A Guide to Cultural Competence
• Develop a Thriving Team

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