Essential Management Skills
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$4,390
Course Start Date
5 days
This program takes place in Vancouver, BC on: Mon - Fri, June 8-12, 8:30am - 4:30pm (PT) each day
5 days
This program takes place in Vancouver, BC on: Mon - Fri, December 7 to 11,2026 8:30am - 4:30pm (PT) each day
Essential Management Skills
Make a successful transition from team member to team leader
Moving into management? New managers often find a renewed sense of passion and purpose, but with growth comes responsibility. Managing teams requires new knowledge and skills for motivating people and navigating the intricacies of workplace relationships.
Designed with the new manager in mind, this program will enable your transition to a management position. Begin by getting to know yourself better: what motivates you, and how can you use your strengths to become a more effective leader. Then learn what it takes to guide your team, and broaden your repertoire of skills in the key areas of motivation, trust, coaching, managing performance and communication. Address the more challenging aspects of leadership by practicing constructive ways to work through conflict, poor performance and difficult conversations. And lastly, take a look at yourself within an organizational context—developing your skills in decision making, influence and strategic networking.
Turbocharge your competencies and confidence as you prepare for your new role as a manager and leader of people. Create an action plan for growth, and take your career to the next level of success!
- Proven frameworks: Apply UBC Sauder’s research-backed methods to real-world management challenges.
- Learn by doing: The program includes 1:1 coaching, team simulations and practical, hands-on performance management workshops.
- Immediate impact: Walk away with tools you can implement on the job from day one.
- Focused learning: Five full days of intensive learning to maximize skill building without long absences from work.
- Join the UBC Sauder community: Connect with business leaders across industries.
Impact on your organization, team or business:
- Unlock your organization’s leadership potential by developing the leaders of tomorrow
- Ease transition periods during team leadership changes
- Build strong teams that meet performance goals
- Attract and retain high-potential talent, and reduce staff turnover
- Create a positive organizational culture of learning and growth
Strengths Deployment Inventory
- Learning your purpose and what motivates you
- Understanding how and why you react to conflict
- Assessing how your strengths guide you
Team Building
- Creating trust and psychological safety in teams
- Key factors of individual and team motivation
- Developing diverse teams
Coaching Others
- Asking powerful questions, listening to understand
- Improving your ability to perceive and address employee needs
- Fostering accountability and growth
Managing Performance
- Ensuring everyone is clear on roles and expectations
- Setting achievable goals
- Giving feedback
- Techniques for facilitating performance
Communicating Effectively
- Managing the message
- Holding challenging conversations
- Dealing constructively with conflict
Decision Making
- Common decision-making traps and how to avoid them
- Using facts to make better decisions
- Improving the quality of group decisions
Leading in the Organization
- Skills and strategies for exercising positive power
- Influencing others
- Building and managing your strategic network
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Evan Lloyd
Client Development Specialist, Professional GrowthWhat other professionals think
This program allowed me to look at examples in my everyday life and apply newly learned skills immediately. A very beneficial course for any new manager wanting to understand how to manage people.
I received numerous ideas about people motivators, as well as insights about my personal strengths and places for improvement.