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Overview
Microcredential Series Description
Within the Management Series, explore leading industry
tactics, in managing todays ever changing workplace. This series
provides a robust offering of courses to help the learner lead in
areas as employee wellness, to diversity and inclusion strategies,
to fostering employee engagement, and how to onboard in the virtual
world of work. The microcredential courses in the Management Series
complement one another, but do not act as prerequisites.
Courses
Microcredential Series Requirements
| Management | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| MGMT-1286 | Communication Skills for Managers | View More Details about MGMT-1286 | ||
| Communication Skills for Managers provides learners an opportunity to engage in communication skills applicable in the modern workforce. Learners will engage in oral, written and virtual exercisesto facilitate communication with peers and staff.The course will assist students in exploring best practices in communication including holding difficult conversations. Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss best practices of communication. 2. Engage in communication activities (written, oral, and remote). Total class hours - 12. | ||||
| MGMT-1287 | Diversity & Inclusion for Leaders | View More Details about MGMT-1287 | ||
| Diversity and Inclusion as a Leadership Strategy will provide learners an opportunity to explore the value of diversity in the workplace. Learners will explore six traits of diversity leadership including visible commitment, humility, awareness of bias, curiosity about others, cultural intelligence and effective collaboration (Harvard Business Review, 2019). Learners will engage with challenging workplace scenarios and reflexive practices to explore their behaviours. Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss and demonstrate linking workplace behaviours to corporate culture of inclusivity. 2. Demonstrate effective collaboration with others, with diversity considerations, to focus on team cohesion. Total class hours - 4. | ||||
| MGMT-1288 | Employee Recognition | View More Details about MGMT-1288 | ||
| Provide initial training (i.e. videos, articles, discussion) on why employee recognition matters, then follow that with many examples of employee recognition (i.e. intrinsic, extrinsic, length of service, team vs. individual vs. organization-wide, look at internally vs. externally administered recognition programs). Learners would then create an implementation plan for putting together a recognition program in their workplace (this could be a new program or revamping an existing one). Learning Outcomes: 1. Learners will be able to describe the value of employee recognition. 2. Learners will be able to list different types of employee recognition. 3. Learners will create an implementation plan for employee recognition in an actual workplace. Total class hours - 4. | ||||
| MGMT-1289 | Employee Wellness | View More Details about MGMT-1289 | ||
| Provide some statistics about employee wellness (i.e. those that are involved in wellness have increased attendance/engagement, lower cost on benefits, etc.). There would be readings, videos and discussion boards that lead up to the synchronous class (online or f2f - would be recorded) in which students would learn about various wellness programs/ideas (and participate in some - i.e. chair yoga, mindfulness, nutrition 101) and discuss how they could be incorporated into their workplaces (i.e. lunch and learn session, online training, after/before work workshops). Students would then implement one idea into their workplace by the end of the course, and share their reflections (either online/written or verbal discussion). Learning Outcomes: 1. Learners will be able to describe why employee wellness matters and be able to list various employee wellness ideas for the workplace. 2. Learners will implement one employee wellness idea. Total class hours - 4. | ||||
| MGMT-1290 | Fostering Employee Engagement | View More Details about MGMT-1290 | ||
| Learners will learn about what employee engagement is, from there look at ways to measure employee engagement (there will be some self-assessments on learners to see how engaged they are in the workplace and to get hands on with some engagement tools (i.e. Engagement Cards, engagement quizzes, certain performance management tools, etc.). Learners will practice tools with other learners (in small groups) after individual exposure. Learning Outcomes: 1. Learners will be able to describe what employee engagement is. 2. Learners will be able to understand how to measure employee engagement. 3. Learners will be able to list various tools/techniques to help increase employee engagement and be comfortable implementing 1-2 of these tools/techniques. Total class hours - 4. | ||||
