UPDATE: This course is being deprecated as we have refreshed and expanded the content into a new Specialization designed to provide a more comprehensive and up-to-date learning experience. You can explore the updated Specialization here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/principles-of-management.
Team leads, managers, and entrepreneurs must juggle team citizenship and leadership, ethics, strategy, and projects with their work in their area of expertise. While an individual contributor’s success may depend on their own direct input -- the sweat of their own brow – managers’ success depends on their ability to enlist the active involvement of others: direct reports, other managers, other team members, other department employees, and those above them on the organizational chart -- sometimes even their suppliers or customers! How do you form, launch, and manage a team such that it has the highest chance of success? How can you ensure your team’s work aligns with the organization’s strategy? What basic project management tools can you utilize right away, without purchasing special software, that will help your team meet its objectives on time, on budget, and to spec? Your success at work will depend on the level of trust your colleagues, those who report to you, and those to whom you report feel toward you – how can you build and maintain a high degree of trust? While AI can support you in managerial actions, it cannot replace you. While AI is advanced enough to coach teams or address performance issues, it lacks the intrinsic connection to the organization that a human manager possesses. An employee who perceives themselves as working for “Company X's AI” will not feel the same level of loyalty or commitment as they would to YOU. Since AI, both literally and figuratively, cannot embody an organization or a manager, managers and leaders who delegate important communication and oversight responsibilities to AI inherit this fundamental limitation. This course will help you succeed in your career.
SC
This was an excellent course! It provided real and practical methods for dealing with management challenges and to promote maximum efficiencies.
SF
Very well designed course for the practitioners. Informative, engaging and very well presented and explained by the instructor Prof. Ilysea.
TJ
Absolutely loved this course. I didn't realize how exciting principles of management could be. Much credit must be given to the instructor for her infectious enthusiasm of the subject. Well done!
AD
Hands-down the best, most practical course I've ever taken on managing people. I have recommended this to several people. Thank you!
TD
Nice course with the basics for management. It introduces many aspects of management with lots of resources for further in depth learning
LX
Very helpful and gives me a better insight to what my CEO, boss, and co-workers need. Thanks to this course I am now a better leader!
RP
Exceptionally well designed course. Thanks a lot Illysa for taking the time to make such an informative, interesting course. Thoroughly enjoyed it
ON
As I began my first management position in a project it was a tremendously useful course for me!!! I would advice it for everyone who wants to extend their knowledge in management area.
HH
Well structured course with valuable learning content. Very useful for new, aspiring, and current managers seeking to develop a learning path and roadmap for their development.
FA
I have enjoyed this course. It is a journey and paced myself as there is a lot of good content - but wanted to take my time in order to get what I needed out of this material.
MP
Absolutely amazing, I will highly recommend this course to people getting ready for managerial position and actual managers as well to became more imprehensive managers.
DH
Excellent course! Would have loved a PDF textbook to accompany the course to refer back on a more regular basis, but overall, I highly recommend.
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Pro: + Course content is helpful to expand management skills and organised very well
Cons:
- There is no reference to the course content on the certificate. You could write the headings of the weekly content on the certificate in bullet form. In Germany, a blank certificate without information about the content is not welcome.
- Coursera logo is very very large and covers the reliability of Johns Hopkins University
This course has impactful content and meaningful example for all topics. If you want to learn:
· How to increase your allies and your knowledge with Active listening,
· How to detect Conflict situations and choose a conflict position based on the outcome you seek,
· How to empower someone with coaching and by building psychological safe environment,
· How to seed strategies for best priority and time management,
· How to create SMART goals and achieve milestones effectively,
· And importantly how to do it all withstanding on strong ethical platform,
Then this course is for you.
As I began my first management position in a project it was a tremendously useful course for me!!! I would advice it for everyone who wants to extend their knowledge in management area.
Absolutely amazing, I will highly recommend this course to people getting ready for managerial position and actual managers as well to became more imprehensive managers.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I have approximately 15 years experience working in management and administrative levels in health care with an additional 15 years working as a "team lead", also in a healthcare setting. In addition, I have just completed my PhD in Engineering Management. As I start my job search, I have been concerned about working as a manager in a non-health care environment. This course addressed a number of significant concerns for me and allowed me to debrief myself regarding a number of prior challenging management experiences. The final course project also allowed me to consider a future research project using the information presented in this course. Thank you for such a wonderful opportunity to improve my knowledge of management in a way that was easy for me to complete. I especially appreciated all the references; I have purchased at least ten of the recommended books and have already started to dig in. Best regards to this instructor (I regret I do not have her name readily available to thank her by name). With best regards,
A brilliant course that takes you through the key principles of management, sharing insights and examples on the effectiveness of each principle. I loved the way there were elements from different resources brought in to elaborate on each point. It is very well presented, and definitely worth spending the time learning. I was able to amase quite a lot of information during my notes taking, which will help me refer everytime I need to review or revisit my learnings.
First management course. Very insightful, ideal for beginner. Learn a lot about different management principles. I am going to explore more about project management. Highly recommended.
This was a very informatiive class. The instructor was very easy to listen to and kept me wanting to listen to more.
IF YOU PAY ATTENTION WELL, THEN THIS COURSE IS A GAME CHANGER HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO ANY MANAGER OR ASPIRING MANAGER AS IT WILL HELP THEM TO ACHIEVE WHAT THEY WANT .
Way of teaching is boring, no tutor interaction instead of just a slide like a high school presentation. Just quote and theory is really not practical. Sign me off!
This course is very insightful and practical. Throughout the study, you are able to apply the principles yo have learnt to your day to day managerial assignment. The trainer is also very knowledgeable and has a mastery of the course content. I have enjoyed the course.
Basically, I have been working many years at marketing industry though I didn't learn management skill well. I just learned at training class. This course will shape my skill set of management. I will use this theory and practice at working environment.
Some many valuable lessons included in this course. The videos are very informative and several very helpful downloads are included to help you learn and improve.
I feel much better prepared to deal with uncomfortable issues. Thank you for your wisdom, experience and personable presentation.
Many issues with the class assignments submitted in Google Docs/Word Programs. This slowed down the class time for me significantly. In addition, my final was completed prematurely by accident and was ACCEPTED as my grade in week one. I could have done much better if I had completed the final at the end of the class. Why didn't someone monitoring this course inform me that the last would not be accepted at week one at that early stage? It was an obvious error. Even though I passed the class, I could have earned a higher grade, and I am disappointed that the system failed my personal needs and negatively affected my grade.
Mostly good, but the single phrase of music at the start of each module got very annoying after a while. Also, the visuals, when it was just a diagram often just throbbed to show that it was 'dynamic', to the point that I couldn't watch the screen. I'd rather watch someone talking than a throbbing diagram. Finally, I found it a bit too corporate-oriented. Most of each module was very helpful, even if I knew a lot of it already.
Coursework and topics covered are valuable and insightful, but the use of anonymous peer-reviewed final project leaves course success in the hands of arbitrary graders.
Terminé el curso, pero no permite obtener el certificado hasta que otras personas no otorgan una calificación.
Management is an art of getting things done by people. The scope of Management is very wide. Management can not be isolated from other social courses. From the beginning of this course, many changes has been in managing people in the organization. The changing has been made in terms of behaviour of the people like be a team player, be solution-oriented, maintain effective communication, be visionary and having strong leadership skills. There are six activities of Management. These are Planning, organizing, leading, controlling, forecasting and commanding. Action Management is about setting a plan in motion and getting it done. Action plan describes the way organization will meet its objectives through detailed action steps that describe how and when these will be taken.
This consera changes the method of setting of goals and means of achieving. Planning is looking forward while controlling is looking backward.
Conclusively, Management can not be isolated, it is a social subject that has to do with managing people in an organization. Planning and Controlling is the most important activities in an organization. Without Planning there's nothing like organization.
This is a great course if you are new to management, looking to getting into management or you already work as a manager and you want to learn new strategies in leading your team efficiently and effectively. The topics presented are very helpful although I am a fan of having people being interviewed so it feels like someone is talking to you versus a person talking while a slide is being shown. Some may get bored with the presentation but if you are here for the knowledge and don’t get bored with the usual powerpoint presentation, then this course is for you. I highly recommend the course but hoping they add footages where in they interview key people so the flow of the lecture doesn’t get boring to some. All in all, it’s a 5 out of 5 stars. I learned a lot from the journal/tool/activity they provided for you to utilize while doing each modules made learning fun as you apply the knowledge as you progress with the course.