Essentials of Effective Management: Driving Organizational Results - Winter 2024

Can your business managers be considered effective if they aren't meeting the organization's goals? The answer is obvious, but so is what your business can do about it. In Essentials of Effective Management: Driving Organizational Results, attendees will take steps beyond the basics of just influencing others. During this five-week course, they will be challenged to learn active communication, how to sell their ideas and lead across boundaries. 

Hafer Petroleum's Shelby Hafer gained better listening skills, as well as how to be more present in her everyday interactions with employees from attending the Essentials of Effective Management program. 

"I have learned to be more present in listening and conversation. With the many distractions in today's world, this is something often and quickly forgotten. The feeling of being present during communication can truly make a difference in engagement," she said. 

Topics include:

• Active communication: Enabling purposeful engagement

• Communicate the why of decisions

• Selling your ideas: Creating enterprise-wide, buy-in and implementation

• Leading across boundaries

• Accountability: Driving engagement