Essential Management Skills

This course will provide you with an understanding of the skills, techniques and knowledge required to be a successful manager.

This comprehensive course is highly interactive, and provides excellent coverage of the essential knowledge, skills and techniques for success as a manager. The course is designed for students looking to become managers or supervisors but with no formal management training.

This course is taught in tandem with Essential Leadership Skills and is useful for professional and personal development.

Learning and teaching

This course is taught through a mix of online learning and classroom-based learning.

Coursework and assessment

To award credits we need to have evidence of the knowledge and skills you have gained or improved.

You will not have formal examinations but you may have class tests. You may be asked to write assignments, keep a course journal or put together a portfolio. Our assessments are flexible to suit the course and the student.

The most important element of assessment is that it should enhance your learning. Our methods are designed to increase your confidence and we try very hard to devise ways of assessing you that are enjoyable and suitable for adults with busy lives.

Reading suggestions

Provided by the tutor on the university Virtual Learning Environment.

Library and computing facilities

As a student on this course you are entitled to join and use the University’s library and computing facilities. Find out more about using these facilities.

Accessibility

Our aim is access for all. We aim to provide a confidential advice and support service for any student with a long term medical condition, disability or specific learning difficulty. We are able to offer one-to-one advice about disability, pre-enrolment visits, liaison with tutors and co-ordinating lecturers, material in alternative formats, arrangements for accessible courses, assessment arrangements, loan equipment and dyslexia screening.