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Online Management Training Program from Gatlin International
Our management training program is ideal for full time students as business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, and anyone seeking to learn more about the basics of business management and leadership. If you're considering starting a business or pursuing an MBA degree; this is the course for you.
The online management training program from Gatlin International includes the following teaching modules:
Best Practices of Successful Businesses
Adhering to best practices are essential to achieving success. In this module, students focus on a number of best practice models from a wide variety of industries and how to integrate common management themes into an actionable plan designed to ensure their success.
Interpersonal Communication and Assertiveness Training
In order to be successful, leaders and managers must possess effective interpersonal and communication skills.
Over the course of this module students are introduced to the fundamentals of interpersonal communication as they learn new ways to be more effective in their communications.
Leadership & Decision-Making for Managers
Every leader in an organization must know how to set a tone and establish certain benchmarks for success.
Over the course of this teaching module, students focus on developing a successful leadership style that facilitates team-building, engenders collaboration, and promotes a corporate culture that encourages team members to be successful.
A wide variety of decision-making techniques and leadership styles are explored over the course of this module.
Change and Organizational Development
Because the majority of organizations are highly social systems, this learning module focuses business culture and how it affects the way team members work. In this module, students learn how to maximize the long-term health of the organization by making its people more successful.
This module also explores the developmental process and how, as a manager, you can be successful in effectuating change.
Negotiations
The business environment and culture of any business is typically the product of a the negotiating process.
This module includes an in depth examination of the negotiating process and evaluates a wide range of negotiation styles for a variety of business environments.
Over the course of this module, students develop the basic negotiation skills they need to be successful in a variety of contexts.
Management Disciplines
In this module, students learn the seven management disciplines that are crucial to management and business success. These seven management disciplines are discussed in the context of all areas of business operation and management.
This module also provides students with a round-table opportunity to evaluate a variety of real-life business issues.
Problem-Solving
The problem solving module teaches students how to develop the collaborative problem-solving skills they need in order to be successful and also focuses on the importance of team-building within the IT environment.
Management Operations
In this learning module students develop the practical and managerial skills they need in order to successfully plan for operational success within the organization.
The module covers the fundamental details of developing an operational plan as well as designing the strategic direction needed to achieve these goals.
Persuasion
Persuasive communication skills are vital, not only for selling products and services but also for obtaining financing and running the daily operations of the business.
Over the course of this module students are given the opportunity to build their confidence while improving their communication skills.
Even highly skilled communicators will learn additional techniques for success.
The management training program from Gatlin International is ideal for busy working professionals and students alike and enrolling is quick, easy and 100% secure. Get the skills you need to succeed with the management training program from Gatlin International.
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Outline
- Business Best Practices
- Effective Interpersonal Communication and Assertion Skills
- Organizational Leadership & Decision-Making
- Organizational Development & Change
- Negotiation Strategies
- Seven Management Disciplines
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
- Strategic Management in Operations
- Persuasive Communication
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 270.00 hours
- Duration of Access
All of our programs are self-paced and open enrollment, so you can start them when you want and finish them at your own pace. Most programs allow you 180 days after you register to complete them. If you need more time, extensions are available.
- Instructor
Katrina McBride's career reflects extensive experience in organizational leadership, marketing strategies, and market development in multi-national corporate environments and as an independent consultant. Her leadership abilities have been utilized by employers and clients to develop new programs and functional areas and to reorganize resources with aggressive deadlines. She has positively impacted revenue and customer satisfaction for large, global organizations as well as small to mid-sized businesses that are experiencing changes due to rapid growth or restructuring to maintain their competitive position.
In director-level positions for Nortel Networks, Katrina was engaged to develop, define, and implement strategies for competitive intelligence, sales support, emerging markets, lead generation, and customer relationship management. Sought after as a trainer, speaker, and facilitator, Katrina develops and presents professional education courses in leadership development, team strategies, strategic marketing, organizational leadership, and change planning.
She is an active member of the American Marketing Association, the American Management Association, Society for Human Resources Management, and the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association, and she's served on the board of directors of the Dallas chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.
Katrina holds an M.A. in organizational management and a B.S. in psychology, as well as certifications in mid-management/leadership and marketing. She is a trained dispute mediator.
Katherine Squires Pang, J.D., LL.M., M.Ed received her B.A. in 1980 from Clark University, her J.D. from the University of Dayton Law School in 1982, her LL.M in Taxation from Georgetown University Law School in 1983, and her M.Ed from the University of Texas in 2001. She has practiced law with national law firms since 1983, ran for the United States Senate in California in 1994, and was appointed by Governor Wilson as a Commissioner to the WCAB from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Pang has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, and has been an adjunct faculty member in the law and business schools of many universities, including the Stern School of Business at New York University, Pepperdine University, USC, Golden Gate University, and the University of California, Irvine.
In addition to having over 20 years of law firm experience, Dr. Pang has founded several companies, including LawPrep, Inc., LawPrep Press, Inc., Legal EdNet.com, and EdWay Online. From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Pang authored several books, videos, and interactive CD-ROMs. Dr. Pang was also the manager for firm-wide practice section development, training, and forms for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, L.L.P.
Dr. Pang has experience providing multimedia, interactive distributed learning to working professionals and adult learners in law and business through a variety of technologies, including video streaming and online conferencing (Webcasts, synchronous and asynchronous threaded discussion boards, and chat rooms) via the Internet and satellite, as well as ISDN-based videoconferencing on CD-ROM. Dr. Pang has been a speaker at the MEC 2001 Conference: Turning a New Page in Educational Technologies, sponsored by Arizona State University; the 2001 Conference on Training and Knowledge Management: Moving Beyond Training, sponsored by Generation 21 Learning Management Systems; and a speaker at various other e-learning conferences. She has design, development, implementation, and managerial experience in educational multimedia course design and creation. She has been responsible for course design and delivery using Macromedia Director, Windows Media Player, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Blackboard, Prometheus, WebCT, Webboard, and a host of other proprietary platforms. She also has experience with digital video, MPEG, MOV, and AVI Files.
Jerry L. Partridge, PMP received his Master's degree in business management at Central Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. He is also a Certified Project Management Professional.
He has experience as a project and program manager for Enterprise Project Management Office over activities for a major retail organization. He has developed, updated, and delivered project management courses and coached and mentored project managers. He's performed governance activities and analyses, collaborated in developing and integrating standard practices, and been a part of an implementation team for an enterprise resource management tool.
Jerry is a certified instructor for IBM project management courses and a host of university seminars for business professionals seeking certification in project management. He was a volunteer subject matter expert (SME) on an international team that drafted the 2004 update to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). He's been a team leader to develop a practice standard for Earned Value Management Systems for the Project Management Institute, an SME for two clients aligning project management courses to the 2004 PMBOK, and an SME for a PMI development team exposure draft for the Program Management Practice Standard.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Students should have basic keyboarding and computer skills, be comfortable navigating the Internet and using e-mail, and have an understanding of a word-processing computer program (Microsoft Word is recommended).
This program is intended for anyone interested in developing their management skills.- Requirements/Materials Included
This program must be taken on a PC. There are no specific computer requirements other than an Internet connection (a high-speed or broadband Internet connection is highly recommended). In addition, you'll need to have Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Flash Plug-in, and a QuickTime plug-in on your computer (all are available through free downloads).
Each student will recive the following required textbook:
- Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
