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General Management

Essential Management Skills

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$4,390 + tax (5%)

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Duration
Hours of Study
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Fee
$4,390
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Duration
Hours of Study
PDU / CDU
Days and Times expand
Fee
$4,390
Tax
$220
Subtotal
$4,610
Add to Cart

You may be asked to or create an account to register and pay.

General Management

Essential Management Skills

Make a successful transition from team member to team leader

Moving into management? Transition confidently with the Essential Management Skills program, designed to build your managerial toolkit and elevate your career in 1 week of focused in-person learning. Activate your leadership with self-awareness and strengths-based insights, learn how to coach and manage performance, and master difficult conversations.  

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This program is ideal for: 
  • New managers and supervisors 

  • Technical professionals transitioning into leadership 

  • Mid-level managers seeking to sharpen people skills 

  • Aspiring leaders preparing for managerial roles 

Proven frameworks

Apply UBC Sauder’s research-backed methods to real-world management challenges.

Practical & hands-on

Learn by doing. This program includes 1:1 coaching, team simulations and performance management workshops.

Immediate impact

Walk away with tools you can implement on the job from day one.

Focused learning

5 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 to your organization, team or business:
  • Unlock your organization’s leadership potential by developing the leaders of tomorrow

  • Reduce turnover with effective people management skills

  • Ease transition periods during team leadership changes

  • Improve workplace culture, engagement and productivity

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 

Profile

Amy Stanley

Amy Stanley

Lecturer

Amy is a Lecturer in the Organizational Behaviour Division at the UBC Sauder School of Business, where she teaches leadership and specialist HR courses. She has also worked in various HR leadership roles, including 8 years as an HR Manager in UBC’s Department of Medicine. An expert executive coach, she manages her own leadership development business helping managers create high-performing organizations. Her global client list includes a range of industries from the business, finance, government and education sectors.
Dr. Alex Trisoglio

Alex Trisoglio

Senior Associate

Alex is an executive coach specializing in leadership development, performance improvement and organizational change. His passion for helping to unlock human potential and building high-performing teams spans more than 25 years of advising CEOs, senior executives and boards in the private, public and non-profit sectors across 60 countries. His clients include McKinsey, KPMG, JP Morgan, IFC/The World Bank, the World Trade Organization and Greenpeace.
Perry Atwal

Perry Atwal

Lecturer

Perry is a Lecturer in the Organizational Behaviour Division at the UBC Sauder School of Business. He teaches courses on leadership, employment relationships, strategy and marketing. He has led successful projects involving extremely diverse participants, and has forged effective relationships between business and government professionals at many levels. Previously he worked in Investment Banking in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has also consulted with Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital.

What 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.

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