Overview/Description

• 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 enhancement and which skills require development. Various avenues for development will be presented ranging from on-line personality inventories to classes in the development of management skills. With this preparation, you will create an action plan to realize your development program. Next, you will create the necessary personal and professional networks within your organization to ensure a smooth, successful transition from technical professional to manager. Upon completion of this course, you will be prepared for the challenges of management. You will lead with assurance knowing that you have the personal and professional traits to be an effective manager.
• 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 appropriately. Thus prepared, you will enter your new role as a manager with the ability to communicate more clearly and more effectively.
• 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 skills including time management, performance management, and stress management. This course will help you develop your skills at organizing and scheduling activities such as meetings, client conferences, and personnel reviews. Process Management Skills will also assist you in setting goals and accomplishing tasks in less time but with higher quality. Applying these important strategies will also help you lower stress in your day-to-day dealings, making you more productive and your day more rewarding.
• 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 problems that can arise in the work setting. This course will develop your abilities to plan and facilitate productive meetings, resolve conflicts, and create team-based approaches to managing. These skills will better prepare you for your role as a manager, and assist you in motivating and empowering your employees.
• 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 for the transition into management, develop management tactics and measure your management success. In addition, you'll develop techniques for facing the realities of management, such as understanding the impact of the Information Age on your management role, working effectively with your peers and maintaining a good relationship with your manager. After completing this course, you'll be ready to switch gears from technical professional to effective manager, armed with the appropriate tools for running a successful department.
• 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 team leader for B Wind Software, Inc., developers of professional grade digital video editing platforms, the participant stands next in line for a promotion to department manager. Yet success isn't quite assured. Other employees in the department vie for the same position. Participants will have to outshine these competitors by demonstrating their qualifications to management before being selected as the final candidate. Then once promoted, the job has only just begun. Numerous challenges await the learner as a fledgling manager, including maintaining positive relationships with both old peers and new, as well as organizing and executing the day-to-day business of the department. But with a little effort and a positive attitude, participants will find their success all but assured. The Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation is the first of two simulations based on the SkillSoft series "Moving from Technical Professional to Management." Throughout the simulation links are provided to the following SkillSoft courses: MGMT0121, MGMT0122, MGMT0123, and MGMT0125. This simulation comprises three scenarios and an introduction.

Target Audience

• This course is designed for technical professionals who are considering managerial positions within their organizations.

Expected Duration

• 21.5

Objectives

• Self-assessment for the Technical Professional
• Roads to Managerial Development
• Establishing Strategic Alliances
• Effective Listening Strategies
• Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
• Assertiveness Skills
• Written Communication
• Management Efficiency Strategies
• Goal-setting Strategies for Management
• Stress Management for the Technical Professional
• Effective Leadership
• The Leader as a Facilitator
• Conflict Resolution for Leaders
• Transitioning into a Management Role
• Dealing with the Realities of Management
• Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation
• From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation.

Naslov	Opis	Trajanje (~sati)
Management Development for Technical Professionals	MGMT0121	3,5
Communication Skills for Successful Management	MGMT0122	3
Process Management Skills	MGMT0123	4,5
Leadership Development for Technical Professionals	MGMT0124	3
Strategies for Transitioning into Management	MGMT0125	6,5
Transitioning From Technical Professional to Management	MGMT0120	0,5
From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation	MGMT012S	0,5