Language: English
Description: Leading a team of colleagues or managing your own staff requires a set of leadership skills that are often few and far between in today’s business culture. Understanding the personalities working for you and with you, while also maneuvering to get the most out of the different skill sets and personalities on your staff is essential to effective leadership and productive management.
With the Business Management Professional Program, this collection of skills and knowledge will ensure students understand the delicate balance of leadership, motivation, delegation, and authority while fostering an environment of encouragement and teamwork. From business communication and basic supervision to the fundamentals of leadership and project management, this combination of courses ensures students will emerge with the confidence to make the tough decisions managers are faced with every day coupled with a comprehensive understanding of what it takes to be a true leader.
Instructor Description: This class supported by an Educational Mentor. Our educational mentors have worked or are working in the subject they mentor. Educational Mentors reviews student work, student progress, and interacts with students as needed. They respond to any questions or concerns you might have, as well as encouraging and motivating you to succeed.
Patricia has a degree in Medical Assisting from The Career College of Northern Nevada, Dental Assisting from the Community College of the Air Force, and is currently working on her B.S. in Criminal Justice Studies from Grand Canyon University in Arizona. She has over 10 years of experience working in doctors’ offices and has been an Air Force Reservist since 2009. She has worked as an instructor for multiple schools over the last 4 years teaching medical and dental assistant curriculum, as well as OSHA safety requirements and career development.
Requirements
This program does not require any additional purchases of supplementary materials.
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Lesson 1
At the conclusion of this program, students will be able to:
Contrast theories and techniques of managing, motivating, and leading others
Analyze the impact of an organization’s culture, environment, and design on management
Examine how social responsibility and ethics affect management functions
Analyze issues facing managers when performing management functions
Examine challenges related to organizational strategies and processes that managers face in today’s business environment
Evaluate approaches to communication to best fit an organizational structure
Apply theories of leadership and motivation to effectively manage others
Assess approaches to controlling organizational performance
Examine operations management
Describe the key components of the contemporary U.S. and international business environment
Describe the role of ethics and social responsibility in the business environment
Examine how businesses can be organized and structured
Analyze the various functions of and approaches to management
Analyze marketing processes, forces, and issues in a business enterprise
Examine the key strategies, tools, and issues involved in business operations
Examine the key financial concepts involved in the business enterprise
Develop a business plan incorporating sound business concepts, systems, and strategies
Analyze the competencies and skills needed to be an effective supervisor
Explain contemporary workplace considerations with respect to a supervisory role
Plan strategically using goal-setting and organizing skills
Recommend a staffing, recruiting, and retention strategy
Recommend a control process strategy
Propose a decision-making strategy
Explain motivational leadership in the context of today’s workforce
Use effective communication strategies
Propose group- and-team-building skills
Analyze the performance appraisal process
Recommend strategies to improve workplace health and safety
Propose conflict resolution strategies
Analyze factors that impact change management
Analyze the supervisor’s role in the collective bargaining processes
Use Microsoft Office
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