Management Certificate (Online at your own pace)

Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys for effectively managing your employees. Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness. Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills for success of your team or organization. Finally, get the keys to manage different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value.

Courses:

Management Boot Camp
Collaborative Management
Managing Generations in the Workplace

Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ

Class details:

Management Boot Camp
Unit 1: Fundamentals of Management How to determine, set, and communicate job expectations Linking employee behaviors to performance Describing performance expectations Increasing employee commitment and pride and evaluate performance		Unit 2: Employee Engagement Motivating and engaging employees to get the job done Tools and techniques to increase employee buy-in and commitment How to communicate with employees and get them involved and engaged in their own performance evaluations
Unit 3: Increasing your Success Part 1 Enhancing your ability to manage effectively In-depth analysis of the behaviors of your style		Unit 4: Increasing your Success Part 2 Behaviors that inhibit your ability to manage effectively Advanced analysis of the behaviors of your management style

Collaborative Management
Unit 1: Principles of collaboration in management Defining principles of collaboration Emotions, self-mastery and collaboration Redirecting teams and group collaboration Conflict management and facilitation		Unit 2: Relationship building Building relationships fundamentals Renegotiating failed relationships Managing collaborative potentials
Unit 3: Strategies to tap into group collaborative potential Harnessing collaborative energy Responsible communication Managing collaboration for performance		Unit 4: Your action plan for collaborative management Setting your management goals Identify and utilize collaborative resources Creating a collaborative management action plan

Managing Generations in the Workplace
Unit 1: What makes these generations different The transition from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age How society shapes us Who are the Boomers? Who are Xers? Who is Gen Y?		Unit 2: Evolving standards of hard work and success Knowledge work and the value of time Time as key to profitability The focus on outcomes The problem with meetings A new type of leadership
Unit 3: What motivates generations at work Monetary and non-monetary rewards Key role of the “boss” A balanced life Lateral career moves Second careers Supporting social causes Retirement reservations		Unit 4: Work styles and technology Customizing work styles and processes Peak work time and place A new role for technology and work Working collaboratively Modern recruitment

William A Draves

William A. Draves is one of the foremost authorities in the world on teaching online. More than 6,000 faculty and teachers have taken this course. He did his graduate work in education, with an emphasis on adult education, from The George Washington University in Washington DC.

Draves has taught for over thirty years, including teaching at the graduate level. His books include "How to Teach Adults," the most popular book ever written on the subject, and "Energizing the Learning Environment."

He has been interviewed by Wired.com, The New York Times, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Washington Post, Virtual University News, Chronicle of Higher Education and other national media.

Draves is author of the book, "Advanced Teaching Online," which is used as the text book for this course. This course is part of the Certified Online Instructor (COI) designation, the most recognized certification for online teaching in higher education.

Sally Klauss

Sally Klauss, MBA, CPCC, has an extensive background in management, employee training and development, total quality management and business management. She is also a leadership coach specializing in management development. Klauss is a popular online instructor teaching several other courses as well.

Sections

OE-21230b-ugc-S26

Starts Mon, Apr 6th 2026 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Online

Price: $595.00 Min Age 18 yr.

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