Climbing the Ladder: Moving from IT Pro to Manager
What you'll learn
- Upon completion of this course, technical professionals will gain a better understanding of how to pursue their personal development along with their professional development.
- You will know how to effectively communicate to all the stakeholders of a project, including your team, peers, managers and external audience.
- Students will be fully aware of how to lead and guide a team, will have the resources needed and will be able to mediate conflicting personalities.
Requirements
- No pre-requisites for this course -A computer with Internet
Description
Welcome to Climbing the Ladder: Moving from IT Pro to Manager.
In this course technical professionals will learn the skills to survive and thrive in the workplace. As a new and future managers will gain a clear understand of just how important clear lines of communication are -- with both employees and superiors.
If you're interested in becoming an accomplished project manager, this training will give you valuable real-life project management techniques. Learn the skills you need to be an effective project manager.
Course Overview:
We understand how easy it can be to become overwhelmed, and that management isn't always so much about leading, as it is about pointing the way. In this course technical professionals will learn the skills to survive and thrive in the workplace. Understand the different ways of managing the development of technical professionals, grow through gaining key successful communication and process management skills, and ultimately develop as leader as you transition into management.
Course Breakdown:
Section 1: Test your current knowledge and know your strengths and weaknesses.
Section 2: As a technical professional, you will learn the skills to survive and thrive in the workplace. Understand what it takes to develop organizational skills,such as time management, performance management, and stress management.
Section 3: Gain a clear understand of just how important clear lines of communication are -- with both employees and superiors. In addition, students will see how easy it can be to become overwhelmed, with so much to do in what never seems like enough time. By concentrating on effective time management, these individuals can avoid much of the stress and pressure that comes with a new position.
Section 4: Management isn't always so much about leading, as it is about pointing the way. It is your duty to point the way by instructing, giving feedback and sharing your experience. This course looks at leadership roles, styles and behaviors, showing how to built the strengths of your team and overcome personality differences and conflict.
Section 5: As a short Final Exam, these questions ties all the above sections in a quick review of key concepts.
Recommendations:
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Smart method to learn - This course is helpful and using smart way to motivate thinking and understanding. The instructor has a professional delivery method, and the he materials are interesting and creative specially the flashcards and the exercises -- Ibrahim Alsayed
This course is of high quality - This course will let you become a PMP and CAMP master and it will explain you every concept. The instructor is highly engaging and highly motivating. Can't be better. Thank you -- Saber Tlili
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Who this course is for:
- Professionals looking to deepen their understanding of human resource and management responsibilities, and how to effectively do them.
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 21,260 Reviews
- 161,584 Students
- 26 Courses
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