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These Management Skills - New Challenges PDU courses include project management skill groupings in such new challenges as "Moving into a Management Role", "Essential Skills for Tomorrow's Managers", and "Moving from Technical Professional to Management".

 

PDU Management - New Challenges
  Quan.   Description Price
1.   Becoming a Manager - 6.0 hours/PDUs
What does becoming a manager involve? What skills are needed to be a good one, and what will others expect of you? These are all natural questions for anyone who is about to become a manager, or who has recently been promoted. Moving into a first management role represents possibly one of the biggest changes in your working life. The transition from player to manager is an exciting, but challenging, one. It takes most people out of an area in which they have been comfortable and successful fo
Item No. MGMT0001
$19.99
$54.95
2.   A New Manager's Responsibilities and Fears - 6.0 hours/PDUs
Promotion to management is obviously welcome and something to celebrate, but when the initial excitement is over, you may begin to wonder about your new responsibilities. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others and ensuring that the company's resources are used effectively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect for the role. Taking some time to consider how you can best direct your current abilities toward
Item No. MGMT0002
$19.99
$54.95
3.   Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager - 6.0 hours/PDUs
Employees want decisive leadership from their managers. Organizations, too, need their managers to be clear about their objectives, and how their teams can achieve them. As a new manager, it is important that you understand that leadership is about giving direction, but it is also crucial that you realize that it also involves trusting and empowering your staff. You will undoubtedly have been very good at your last job, but now you will need to resist the temptation to continue doing it. For
Item No. MGMT0003
$19.99
$54.95
4.   A New Manager's Role in The Company's Future - 5.5 hours/PDUs
Perhaps one of the most exciting and challenging changes that comes with moving into a management role is the need to take a more strategic view of the work you are doing. You need to develop a greater awareness of how your own work, and the work of those in your department, fits with the strategic vision of the company. You will also need to have a greater understanding of the impact that the output of your department can have on other parts of the organization. Complacency is the enemy of c
Item No. MGMT0004
$19.99
$54.95
5.   Moving into Management Simulation
You work for The Electric Car Company. Recently your boss, Sonya Black, promoted you to Marketing Manager. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others. You'll initially find that some of your coworkers' expectations of you have changed. Some of your former colleagues will have trouble accepting your promotion, and you will need to respond appropriately to their negative reactions. This will involve confronting and overcoming their concerns and behaviors. You will also need to
Item No. MGMT000S
$19.99
$54.95
6.   Leadership in Management Simulation
Specializing in the film and television industries, Limelight Connections is a web-based, career-search company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As part of the marketing team, you have been with Limelight for just under two years. Your dedication, industry knowledge and hard work have paid off, recently earning you a promotion to manager of the department. But with the new title comes new challenges--some from sources you may never have expected. But challenges like these are all part o
Item No. MGMT000T
$19.99
$54.95
7.   Course Bundle: Moving into a Management Role - 23.5 hours/PDUs
This bundle includes:
  • "Becoming a Manager" Item No. MGMT0001
  • "A New Manager's Responsibilities and Fears" Item No. MGMT0002
  • "Lead and Communicate Effectively as a New Manager" Item No. MGMT0003
  • "A New Manager's Role in the Company's Future" Item No. MGMT0004
  • "Moving into Management Simulation" Item No. MGMT000S
  • "Leadership in Management Simulation" Item No. MGMT000T

  • Item No. MGMT0009
    $94.99
    $329.70
    8.   Competencies for Tomorrow's Managers - 5.5 hours/PDUs
    "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Lewis Carroll's words in Through the Looking Glass, have never been more applicable than today. The workplace is changing. Today's managers are competing for skilled workers, facing high turnover, and coping with technology changes that occur at warp speed. Effective managers must be less product-oriented, and more people-oriented. In order to thrive in these shifting times, you need skills that will help you maximize the potential
    Item No. MGMT0111
    $19.99
    $54.95
    9.   Development Tools for Tomorrow's Managers - 5.0 hours/PDUs
    "A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams gets to the heart of what dynamic senior executives are doing to develop the managers who drive front-line performance. Teaching with influence is the key. Trained managers are more than systems and process supervisors. They lead and develop others. You and your managers will know precisely what to expect from one another. You will identify methods to make your managers change-ready, global thinkers. By
    Item No. MGMT0112
    $19.99
    $54.95
    10.   The Manager as Coach and Counselor - 5.0 hours/PDUs
    "The ripest peach is highest on the tree." "A man's reach should exceed his grasp." How do you motivate employees to go after "the ripest peach," or reach for the skill level that seems beyond their grasp? You do it by coaching. Coaching is what cultivates employee growth, not to mention employee loyalty. In The Manager as Coach and Counselor, you'll learn to take people from adequacy to excellence. And as you build their self-esteem, confidence, and competence, you'll be building on the bottom
    Item No. MGMT0113
    $19.99
    $54.95
    11.   The Manager as Project Champion - 4.5 hours/PDUs
    Albert Einstein said, "The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts." Are you a person who can drive a project on the outside, and hold yourself responsible from within? Can you be the force, the influence, and the point person who holds the keys to ultimate success? That's what it takes to be a project champion. This is not a course about the technical skills associated with project management. It's a course about what motivates people to deliver
    Item No. MGMT0114
    $19.99
    $54.95
    12.   A Manager's Primer for Ensuring Accountability - 6.0 hours/PDUs
    "You are either part of the solution or part of the problem." That assertion from Eldridge Cleaver is a perspective that you must impart to each and every employee you supervise. There are many effective ways to get them to see this valuable viewpoint. And that's what you'll learn in this course. As a manager you are on the line when things go wrong. This course is designed to enhance your ability to communicate a philosophy of continuous improvement, what you expect of your staff, and what they
    Item No. MGMT0115
    $19.99
    $54.95
    13.   Continuous Learning for Tomorrow's Managers - 4.5 hours/PDUs
    "The future belongs to those...to whom it is a pleasure to live, to create, to whet their intelligence on that of the others." Sir Henri Deterding could have been talking about the enlightened manager for the 21st century. Tomorrow's successful manager understands the forces in the business world that are changing the way people work, the way work is accomplished, and the way managers lead. How can you lure the talent you need and keep the talent you have? How can you build that talent into an o
    Item No. MGMT0116
    $19.99
    $54.95
    14.   Essential Skills for Tomorrow's Managers Simulation
    In business today, managers are moving far beyond the boundaries of traditional directorship. Ever-evolving models require that managers be equal parts teacher, advocate and mentor, fostering the growth of their most valuable asset--personnel. This simulation assigns you the role of manager to a web development team. As a national-level ISP (Internet Service Provider), I-Spi encourages a forward-thinking, casual environment that holds education and personal advancement as a fundamental tenet.
    Item No. MGMT0110
    $19.99
    $54.95
    15.   Essential People Management Skills Simulation
    You are a development manager at SurgerySoft, Inc., a medical software company. You are responsible for managing a staff of computer programmers. Your staff's primary function is to maintain and upgrade existing software products and to create new ones. In the first scenario, your goal is to effectively and diplomatically handle several personnel issues. You will attempt to hire Ramon, a skilled Hispanic computer programmer and graphic designer. Ramon has concerns about coming to work for Sur
    Item No. MGMT011S
    $19.99
    $54.95
    16.   Course Bundle: Essential Skills for Tomorrow's Managers - 30.5 hours/PDUs
    This bundle includes:
  • "Competencies for Tomorrow's Managers" Item No. MGMT0111 /LI>
  • "Development Tools for Tomorrow's Managers" Item No. MGMT0112
  • "The Manager as Coach and Counselor" Item No. MGMT0113
  • "The Manager as Project Champion" Item No. MGMT0114 /LI>
  • "A Manager's Primer for Ensuring Accountability" Item No. MGMT0115 /LI>
  • "Continuous Learning for Tomorrow's Managers" Item No. MGMT0116
  • "Essential Skills for Tomorrow's Managers (Simulation)"
    Item No. MGMT0119
  • $124.99
    $439.60
    17.   Management Development for Technical Professionals - 3.5 hours/PDUs
    If you have ever considered moving up to a managerial position, certain personal and professional traits will be necessary when you make that move. In addition to the skills you have as a technical professional, you need to develop the skills of effective managers. This course will assist you in a self-assessment process that is essential to your efforts to become an effective manager. You will analyze the traits and skills you currently possess. Then you will determine which skills need enhance
    Item No. MGMT0121
    $19.99
    $54.95
    18.   Communication Skills for Successful Management - 3.0 hours/PDUs
    Effective communication is a crucial component of your success as a manager. As a technical professional, you developed various communication skills that helped you to succeed. But, as a manager, you will need additional communication skills to be effective. This course will examine various aspects of successful communication strategies and skills. You will analyze the strategies of nonverbal communication, listening, assertive communication, and writing and learn how to apply these strategies a
    Item No. MGMT0122
    $19.99
    $54.95
    19.   Process Management Skills - 4.5 hours/PDUs
    Efficiency, in software terms, can be the difference between ineffective, poorly designed software, and elegant, intuitive software. Efficiency in manufacturing is the difference between processes that yield top quality products at a reasonable price, and processes that spit out shoddy products regardless of price. Likewise, efficiency is critical to the effectiveness of a manager and to the manager's organization. To be efficient as a manager, you have to develop a suite of organizational
    Item No. MGMT0123
    $19.99
    $54.95
    20.   Leadership Development for Technical Professionals - 3.0 hours/PDUs
    Managers must direct the activities of workers to address tactical or short-term issues while still maintaining a vision of the strategic or long-term goal. Therefore, the skills needed for an effective leader are varied and complex. For you, the technical professional, this means evaluating your current leadership skills. It also includes the development of more refined managerial skills such as facilitation and conflict resolution in order to deal with work teams effectively and the problem
    Item No. MGMT0124
    $19.99
    $54.95
    21.   Strategies for Transitioning into Management - 6.5 hours/PDUs
    Making a smooth transition from technical professional to management is critical to your success as a manager. You've already demonstrated your technical expertise; now you're ready to take that next step. In your new role as a manager, you'll use technology in different ways -- focusing on managing production, not production itself. This course outlines management tactics for becoming an effective manager. Specifically, you'll receive tips on hitting the ground running, including how to prepare
    Item No. MGMT0125
    $19.99
    $54.95
    22.   Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation
    For candidates considering the move from positions as technical professionals to management, certain professional traits and skills are necessary. Effective communication skills, efficient strategies, and managerial competencies must all be mastered and continuously honed. The Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to develop these and other skills as they climb the ladder into management. As a software installation te
    Item No. MGMT0120
    $19.99
    $54.95
    23.   From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation
    For candidates considering the move from positions as technical professionals to management, certain professional traits and skills are necessary. Effective communication skills, efficient strategies, and facilitative competencies must all be mastered and continuously honed. The From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to develop these skills and others as they continue their managerial development. As newly promoted Software Developm
    Item No. MGMT012S
    $19.99
    $54.95
    24.   Course Bundle: Moving from Technical Professional to Management - 20.5 hours/PDUs
    This bundle includes:
  • "Management Development for Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0121
  • "Communication Skills for Successful Management" Item No. MGMT0122
  • "Process Management Skills" Item No. MGMT0123
  • "Leadership Development for Technical Professionals" Item No. MGMT0124
  • "Strategies for Transitioning into Management" Item No. MGMT0125
  • "Transitioning From Technical Professional to Management" Item No. MGMT01210
  • "From Techn
    Item No. MGMT0129
  • $109.99
    $384.65
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