Managing People

Description

To be successful and move ahead in his or her career, a manager must understand how to manage people, including motivating workers and coordinating their activities. This course will explain how the goals, empowerment, and measurement system of management can be employed and how organization structures differ. The course will also cover the difficulty of discipline while trying to maintain momentum.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand your own attitudes toward empowering management
• Explain how a GEM (goals, empowerment, measurement) approach to managing works in practice
• Describe the major organizational structures and the differences between them
• Explain the different factors that motivate workers and how a manager can use them to improve employee performance
• Discuss the challenges of discipline and how a manager should deal with such situations
• Identify the defining characteristics, benefits, and unique challenges of empowered teams

Intended Audience

This course is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

• Entry-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as assistants, coordinators, buyers, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

• Non-procurement managers and supervisors who are responsible for either the procurement function or staff who provide procurement functions under delegated authority.   

• Professionals who are employed by governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly-owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly-funded or created organizations) that either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

• Suppliers or representatives of suppliers seeking to understand the public procurement function from a holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.