Advanced Management Skills Series Curriculum Outline
Developing a High-performance Organization
Overview/DescriptionHelping your organization to reach its full potential is among your most important responsibilities as a leader. In a modern competitive business environment, tapping an organizations potential for high performance not only helps it to be more competitive but also helps it to better respond to and manage the influence of external factors. In short, high-performance organizations are those with a competitive edge. Facilitating a high-performance environment requires the right skillset. This course helps you assess your organizations potential for high performance in terms of its mission statement, strategy, performance measurement strategies, customer orientation, leadership, and culture.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organization’s performance by developing their advanced management skills.
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Developing a High-performance Organization
Identify organizational factors that need to be coordinated for success Determine if a mission statement supports a high-performance organization Assess whether an organizations performance measurement strategy is conducive to high performance Recognize actions to make an organization more customer focused Recognize typical actions of a leader of a high-performance organization in a scenario Determine if an organizations culture supports high performance Course Number:
mgmt_23_a01_bs_enus Back to ListCross-functional Strategic Management
Overview/DescriptionCross-functional management involves managing in a way that bridges the functional silos that constrain your organization. You have to rethink your approach to business operations and promote synergy and collaboration in a team-based environment while moving toward a common objective. This course defines organizational cross-functionality and its benefits. It helps you develop techniques to support a cross-functional strategy throughout your organization. And it shows you how different types of knowledge management systems can play a role in implementing that strategy.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organization’s performance by developing their advanced management skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Cross-functional Strategic Management
Recognize true statements about cross-functional management Identify the benefits of cross-functional management Recognize how to support strategic cross-functionality in the organization Recognize the benefits of knowledge management for furthering strategic cross-functionality Match knowledge management approaches with their descriptions Course Number:
mgmt_23_a02_bs_enus Back to ListManaging for Rapid Change and Uncertainty
Overview/DescriptionIn an ever-changing business environment, organizations globally are faced with the challenges of having to reinvent themselves or face failure. This course examines the factors driving organizational change and shows how you can use a change management strategy to mitigate any potentially negative impact in your organization. It helps you prepare yourself and your team to meet the challenge of change and uncertainty. It also enables you to secure everyones support while youre implementing change. And it gives you guidelines on how to embed the changes once theyve been implemented.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organizations performance by developing their advanced management skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Managing for Rapid Change and Uncertainty
Identify true statements about organizational change Identify principles of change management Recognize how a manager should prepare to lead organizational change Match actions with steps in the process of preparing an organization for change Help employees implement change Identify actions that reinforce organizational change Course Number:
mgmt_23_a03_bs_enus Back to ListManaging High Performers
Overview/DescriptionAre you paying enough attention to your high performance employees, the people who really help drive your organization? To assume that they dont need your ongoing support because they seem self-sufficient can be a costly mistake. If you dont give them the attention they need and deserve, they may take their energy elsewhere. The key is to keep them engaged and motivated. This course helps you better understand what motivates high performers so you can use effective techniques to retain them and develop their full potential. It focuses on the importance of giving high performers challenging and meaningful work, autonomy, mentoring opportunities, and appropriate feedback.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organizations performance by developing their advanced management skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Managing High Performers
Identify examples of typical characteristics of high performers Recognize benefits of retaining high performers in a scenario Recognize how to motivate and develop high performers Motivate a high performer through feedback Course Number:
mgmt_23_a04_bs_enus Back to ListManaging New Managers
Overview/DescriptionPeople are the most important part of any organization. Developing tomorrows organizational leaders requires a continuous commitment by managers and HR professionals to prepare new managers to grow into leadership roles. New managers must be properly oriented and trained when moving to their new positions. But training is an ongoing process, and mentoring is one key strategy for turning these new managers into leaders wholl help keep the organization prosperous into the future. This course covers the elements of an effective orientation program. It then illustrates some appropriate techniques for training new managers, such as job coaching, customer and supplier visits, and involvement in shared projects with other teams. Finally, it introduces a mentoring model so you can help new managers realize their leadership potential.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organization’s performance by developing their advanced management skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Managing New Managers
Identify true statements about orienting new managers Recognize techniques for training new managers Determine whether the techniques for mentoring new managers have been followed appropriately in a given scenario Mentor new managers Course Number:
mgmt_23_a05_bs_enus Back to ListManaging Experienced Managers
Overview/DescriptionExperienced managers are extremely valuable to an organization. With the experience and judgment they have developed over time, these managers can provide leadership and drive to guide the organization to new highs. So its important that you devote time and other resources to ensuring their ongoing commitment to the organizations long-term and short-term goals. Managers with highly developed skills manage their teams and subordinates more efficiently, reduce overall employee turnover, and increase the organizations performance. In this course, youll learn about a range of techniques for investing in your managers to establish their long-term commitment to the organization. In particular, youll learn how to develop their competencies and skills through coaching. Finally, youll learn how to identify signs of underperformance in experienced managers and how to help them overcome whatever is hindering their performance.
Target AudienceManagers looking to improve their organizations performance by developing their advanced management skills
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Managing Experienced Managers
Differentiate techniques for investing in management talent Apply guidelines for coaching an experienced manager Describe benefits of effectively coaching experienced managers Conduct an effective coaching meeting with an experienced manager Recognize how to use various techniques to assess a managers performance Recognize how to manage a nonperforming manager Course Number:
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Advanced Management Skills Series
In order to survive, managers need management training to be able to respond appropriately, not just for today, but for the
organization's future success. This means they must plan, organize, direct, and control resources across time, distance, and
cultures. Furthermore, in this ever-changing environment the manager must now attract, retain, and promote a diverse workforce.
This business training course seeks to provide a systematic understanding of how to manage change in a global business context.
Today, management training needs to address the complex problems and challenges of the current global business environment.
Managers must now rely upon other divisions, departments, or functions in order to allocate resources, prioritize their staff
time, and cooperate with each other. This business training will help managers develop a degree of systems thinking where managers
operate in a large interconnected system of value chains. These developments place a premium on managers implementing a new
management development strategy of organizational learning and knowledge management which are key drivers in delivering success.
This management training course will examine what organizations need to do to ensure that they attract high performers, how
they allow this talent to thrive, and, most importantly, how to avoid losing the talent to the competition. In addition, managers
need to be able to evaluate an individual's performance and provide clearly defined outcome-based performance standards that
create a benchmark for success. This requires managers to learn how to develop, coach, motivate, and inspire their high performers.
Successful managers must not only have the ability to continuously drive these top performers to respond to change and stay
ahead of the learning curve, they must also cope with any performance impediments, execute strategy, and deliver results.
Managers share the responsibility for managing the relationship with the top management and Board of Directors of the company
and this business training course will demonstrate how taking advantage of that responsibility will strengthen motivation,
productivity, and overall life quality of all concerned. Managers need to have necessary interpersonal skills required for
succeeding in upward relationships. The focus is on the skills and strategies that support building positive and productive
upward relationships and optimizing individuals' and organizations' performances. This management training course also offers
managers a common-sense perspective on how to keep their bosses happy, productive, and successful for their own success and
for fostering a good work environment.
Benefits of CBT Direct’s Online Advanced Management Training
CBT Direct boasts the most beneficial online training on the market. With CBT Direct’s online training, you have the flexibility
to study on your schedule, and with the speed and reliability of the internet, CBT Direct’s management training course is accessible
anywhere you have an internet connection. Convenience finally costs less with CBT Direct - the most affordable online training
solution today.
The unique design of CBT Direct’s management training course emphasizes learner initiative, self-management and experiential
learning. CBT Direct’s online course design begins with the definition of user-focused performance objectives and then proceeds
to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. This
effective instruction model for CBT Direct’s management training course ensures the greatest level of comprehension and retention.
Who Benefits from CBT Direct’s Advanced Management Training?
The Advanced Management Training course is for senior level directors, senior managers of strategic business units, and advanced
level managers. It would also be of interest to managers working in governmental agencies or nonprofit organizations where increasing
business complexity places a premium on management development. The course would also be suitable for those high performing
executives wishing to take on a significant corporate leadership position.
What Professionals Will Learn from CBT Direct’s Advanced Management Training
With CBT Direct’s online management development training, students will learn techniques to manage strategic change, how to
apply the three-phase transitioning process for change, identify the benefits for businesses of adopting a globalization strategy
and the capabilities of effective global managers. The ability to identify the rewards of managing diversity in the organization
as well as recognize examples of how the learning-and-effectiveness diversity model increases organizational effectiveness will
be greatly increased while using this business training.
Students will be shown how to use effective communication strategies to manage diversity in a workplace scenario, recognize how
the value chain contributes to competitive advantage and ways in which value chain dynamics can create value and solve problems.
Using this management training will enlighten the manager about the benefits of cross-functional teams in an organization and
practices for managing a cross-functional team.
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Individuals will recognize the benefits of effective management development for employees of an organization, how to manage
the talent in your organization and the benefits of being proactive when managing high performers. This management training will
demonstrate the benefits of personal development interventions, techniques to develop high-performing employees, as well as
identify the responsibilities of the managerial role while building a winning team of managers.
Managers can use this business training to learn how to delegate tasks effectively, identify the benefits of effective
delegation, use negotiation techniques and identify the characteristics of performance management strategies with examples of
effective managerial mentoring. CBT Direct’s management training will offer examples of the steps you can take to build high
performance through coaching, show how organizational politics apply to managers and techniques to manage non-performing managers
or conflict while delivering or accepting positive criticism.
Professionals, while pursuing their management development, will recognize how politics are used in managing an upward
relationship, how to build credibility and trust with your boss, show you what your boss can realistically expect from you
and what to expect from your boss. Finally, students using this online management training will recognize the benefits of being
able to manage a difficult boss.
In this self-paced online course, students will learn about a range of techniques for investing in your managers to establish
their long-term commitment to the organization. In particular, you'll learn how to develop their competencies and skills through
coaching. Finally, you'll learn how to identify signs of underperformance in experienced managers and how to help them overcome
whatever is hindering their performance.
Advanced Management Skills Series
