HRC07
ME: Managing Productivity
Diagnose, assess, and resolve difficult situations effectively. Address conflict efficiently by improving communication skills that enhance employee morale and productivity while reducing debilitating stress.
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Description
The most successful managers are those who can juggle often competing priorities, manage their time effectively, motivate their direct reports to peak performance, and diffuse difficult situations quickly and effectively to maintain a healthy and productive organizational environment. To help them do so, eCornell has partnered with Cornell University to create the Management Essentials: Managing Productivity Certificate.
The six-course series is designed to help participants diagnose, assess, and resolve difficult situations quickly and effectively. By improving their interpersonal communication skills, participants can address conflict more efficiently in a way that enhances employee morale and elevates productivity. Participants also learn to gain control of their own busy work schedules, increasing their personal productivity while reducing debilitating stress.
Who Should Take This Certificate?
The Management Essentials: Managing Productivity Certificate is designed for entry- to mid-level supervisors and managers seeking a deeper understanding of the issues and challenges of managing and increasing the productivity of direct reports and proven strategies for improving the productivity of your team.
ILRMD503
Overcoming Barriers to Successful Management
Create a continuous-improvement process in which employees communicate and collaborate to increase productivity, creativity, and efficiency. Improve overall performance by shifting professional paradigms.
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ILRMD504
Leading People to Higher Performance
Create a motivated, team-oriented environment that aligns individual employee motivators with organizational goals. Appropriately confront problems and resolve workplace conflicts.
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ILRMD507
The Power of Managing Your Time and Personal Priorities
Master time management and change mental patterns to enhance productivity. Set priorities that reflect personal values and life goals.
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ILRMD508
Managing People Issues to Stay Focused on Priorities
Maintain good work relationships to promote harmony and efficiency. Handle unproductive situations by resolving conflicts and communicating effectively.
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ILRMD509
The Impact of Personality Styles on Communication
Develop effective interpersonal communication skills. Improve ability to work with and manage employees.
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ILRMD510
Managing Communication Challenges
Become both assertive and professional in dealing with communication challenges in the workplace. Analyze and use criticism for self-improvement.
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Accreditation
Students who successfully complete all 6 courses in this series receive a Management Essentials: Managing Productivity Certificate from Cornell University.
Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) will give .6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to each student who successfully completes each course. Students can apply to the ILR school for the CEU units after they have successfully completed the courses.
ACE CREDIT Recommendation
The American Council on Education recommends this Certificate Program for up to 3 semester hours in Management in the upper division baccalaureate degree category.
HRCI Recertification
Most of the courses in this certificate series have each been approved for six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. See individual course descriptions for more information. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.
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