Management Mastery Certificate
Are you a manager who wants to build your leadership skills to play a more strategic and valuable role in your organization? Are you seeking real-world, leading-edge learning from experts on management topics?
This Management Mastery Certificate helps you take the next step by building on core management competencies as you develop your leadership skills, strategically plan, use financial data to make decisions, understand organizational behaviors, manage transitions, and build business savvy. Round out your essential management skills and build your success as a leader by taking the five-day Successful Manager’s Leadership Program. It provides research-based models and practical tools in four critical areas needed for success as a leader: Thought, Personal, Results, and People Leadership. The Successful Manager’s Leadership Program from the University of Minnesota and PDI Ninth House is a leadership development program that makes good business sense. Customize your Mastery Certificate with electives that will help you build your individual development needs and apply what you’ve learned throughout your program.
What You'll Learn in the Management Mastery Certificate Program
This comprehensive educational experience, which can be customized to fit your needs, will give you new knowledge and skills to advance your management career. You'll learn how to get work done through others and acquire practical skills and knowledge to take you to the next level.
Key Benefits of a Management Mastery Certificate
By taking this certificate, you'll:
- Learn from industry experts
- Customize learning to fit your needs
- Experience intensive peer interaction
- Be able to take courses from several certificates at once
- Have up to four years to complete the program
- Receive tangible University of Minnesota recognition for your achievement
Management Mastery Certificate Registration
To enroll in the Management Mastery Certificate, you will register for the Management Certificate, the Successful Manager's Leadership Program, and elective courses listed below or call 612-624-4000.
Management Mastery Certificate Program
Build a solid foundation in understanding how to get work done through others within the organization's framework and demonstrate a general business understanding.
Management Certificate Courses
See Management Certificate for details.
Developing Leadership Skills
Develop your leadership potential by enhancing your influencing, communication, and coaching skills and learn to differentiate between management and leadership.
Strategic Planning and Measurement
Develop tools to build strategies that lead to practical solutions that make your business stronger.
Financial Intelligence
Learn how financial information is used to make internal decisions and communicate with stakeholders.
In-Depth Coaching: Lead Individual Change Interventions
Understand and leverage your role as a coach to create and sustain individual and organization change.
Lead Successful Team Intervention Strategies
Learn how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness and innovativeness of teams through the practical techniques used to facilitate team intervention strategies.
Successfully Lead Enterprise-Wide Change Management
Learn effective techniques and systems that facilitate change and explore the dynamic role of today's change manager.
Management Essentials for Success
Increase your personal effectiveness and the performance of your work group by learning how to address management challenges and gain an understanding of key functions of management.
Customer Focused Marketing
Learn to compete in today's competitive market through marketing planning, understanding your customer, delivering your message, and evaluating your success.
Successful Manager's Leadership program
See Successful Manager's Leadership Program page for details.
Management Mastery Certificate Elective Courses
Choose 24 hours of elective courses in any certificate program.
Principles of Supervision
Meet the challenge of supervising in today's complex and changing workplace. Discover your authentic style and motivate others towards a more productive work environment.
Successfully Deal with Conflict at Work
Help improve your confidence and effectiveness in managing conflict by developing strategies to respond to difficult situations and build valuable skills for positively resolving conflict.
How to Deal with Difficult People
Develop the interpersonal and communication skills you need to recognize and respond to difficult behavior in coworkers, employees, supervisors, and the public.
Negotiate for Agreement
Develop your negotiation skills by learning to apply proven strategies and techniques to everyday situations as you learn about the negotiation process.
Staffing: Recruitment and Selection
Explore strategies and techniques to find and keep great employees that meet your organization's needs.
Principles of Employee Compensation
Learn the key components of a compensation plan, laws impacting compensation, use of salary survey data, and factors in a successful compensation program.
Project Planning
Focus on creating a detailed project plan that defines activities, schedule, communication, solicitation, and procurement to create an integrated project plan.
Deliver High Impact Presentations
Develop powerful speaking and presentation skills and enhance your natural speaking style as you improve the content and delivery of your presentations.
Employee Benefits Practices and Trends
Equip yourself to respond effectively to employee concerns and opportunities with this comprehensive introduction to benefit practices and trends.
Build Teamwork and Commitment
Learn to create dynamic, high performance teams by tapping into individuals' diverse skills and interests to encourage a shared sense of organizational goals.
Performance Management Process
Examine the components of an effective performance management strategy and understand the connection between organizational and individual performance.
Delegate to Enhance Job Performance
Learn what, when, and how to delegate. Managing versus doing makes you and your employees more effective.
Design On-Boarding Programs
Gain valuable tips on creating new employee orientation programs that influence a new employee's performance, attitude and sense of commitment.
Legal Issues in Human Resources and Management
Gain an understanding of key issues in employment law with practical guidance for risk avoidance and risk management.
Handle People with Tact and Diplomacy
Bring out the best in people and learn how to build and maintain interpersonal relationships that affect your job performance.
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Skills
Improve your face-to-face communication skills by learning how to say what you mean, describe feelings, and deal with difficult communication situations in a professional manner.
Work Assertively
Focus on understanding other people's needs and perspectives and learn how to confront problem behavior, stand up for yourself, and interact with authority figures.
Exercise Organizational Influence
Garner support from those you work with and hone your ability to influence others effectively for the improvement of the entire organization.
Investigations and Documentation
Gain practical techniques for conducting investigations, gathering information legally, maintaining objectivity and keeping accurate records.
The Human Resource Audit
Conduct compliance reviews and evaluate human resource practices using audit techniques, data analysis and action planning.
Strategic Human Resource Planning
Learn to plan using environmental data to identify strategic challenges and objects, then develop and deploy an action plan to meet your goals.
Project Initiation
Learn how to communicate with stakeholders, analyze the organization, develop a budget and identify roles and responsibilities during the critical planning stages of your projects.
Employee and Labor Relations
Learn how employee labor relations relate to the legal context of employee relations and gain a greater understanding of your role in employee advocacy.
Coaching for Excellence
Develop the tools and explore the approaches that are critical in a coaching relationship.
Leading Change
Learn the structure of change and how to work with it to make you and your team's transitions smoother and more productive.
Foundations in Business Writing
Learn how to improve your writing by practicing helpful strategies for organizing and formatting business correspondence and materials.
Writing Persuasive Business Proposals
Learn how to write compelling proposals that meet the needs of the sponsors and stakeholders who will use them.
Interviewing and Selection Processes
Identify the most qualified candidates for your organization, while making sure that you are conducting the interviewing and hiring processes both legally and effectively.
Legal Issues for Supervisors and Managers
Understand the legal aspects of employee-supervisor relationships and the role in supporting these relationships.
Manage Performance and Develop Talent
Build the performance climate that your employees need to achieve stellar results.
Writing Business Reports and Proposals
Learn how to write concise, professional reports that effectively inform and persuade readers.
Increase Power and Influence through Listening
Develop and hone listening skills to increase your workplace effectiveness.
Introduction to Human Resource Practices
Examine the variety of human resource functions performed and integrate these with the major human resource principles and concepts.
Organizational Training and Development
Understand the key components of organizational training and development to help attain your business goals.
Project Management Foundations
Begin by understanding what a project is, how you can improve your role as a better project manager, while building a solid foundation of the project management essentials.
Writing Policies and Procedures
Learn how to plan, write, edit, and publish successful policies, procedures, manuals and directions that align with your company's values.
Project Risk Management
Learn to encourage a trust based context for handling uncertainty through project risk management planning while gaining knowledge to monitor and control risk on a project effectively.
Project Execution
Learn to manage a project in progress while accommodating the impact of inevitable changes and events on the triple constraints of schedule, budget and scope.
Project Control and Closure
Learn how to manage the strategies that project managers need to control and finally close a project successfully.
Project Leadership
Discover strategies to mold and motivate your project team through team building and for solid decision-making.
Project Procurement Management
Learn to obtain goods and services from outside companies as part of your project.
Project Management and Chaos Theory
Understand complex systems and chaos, how they manifest in your organization, and learn to develop strategies for managing stress and minimizing risk due to this chaos.
Applied Project Management
Put into practice the skills you have acquired throughout Essential Project Management Certificate program. Work as a team to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close a mid-sized, high-priority project.
Project Management and New Product Development
Acquire the key success factors in new product develoment, and discover ways to bring those factors to bear in your own organization.
Writing for the Web
Understand how people use the web to acquire the tools to take a marketing approach in writing effective web site copy.
Process Mapping and Analysis
Gain a global perspective on the many processes that drive an organization by mapping and analyzing them for the purpose of managing them more successfully.
Data and Process Modeling
Learn to elaborate, refine, and organize all components of the requirements into succinct, yet meaningful documentation.
Introduction to Business Analysis
Acquire an initial foundation of knowledge of business analysis and the critical role of the business analyst as a bridge between business and IT solution providers.
Managing Business Requirements
Learn requirements management concepts, different forms of requirements and ways to document business requirements.
Measuring and Improving Work Processes
Begin the journey toward Six Sigma performance simply by enhancing your organization's current process improvement techniques.
Process Innovation
Learn to create sustainable operational excellence by combining innovative process designs with streamlined operations.
Technical Writing
Meet the needs of your audience, accomplish your goals, and write for precision, clarity, and style.
Advanced Editing and Proofreading Strategies
Learn how to hone editing and proofreading skills to maximize professionalism and quality.
Fundamentals of Organization Development
Prepare individuals and groups within your organization to adapt to new technologies, markets, challenges and change.
In-Depth Coaching: Lead Individual Change Interventions
Understand and leverage your role as a coach to create and sustain individual and organization change.
Lead Successful Team Intervention Strategies
Learn how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness and innovativeness of teams through the practical techniques used to facilitate team intervention strategies.
Successfully Lead Enterprise-Wide Change Management
Learn effective techniques and systems that facilitate change and explore the dynamic role of today's change manager.
Implementing Process Change
Make it work in the real world
Business Acumen
Comprehend and evaluate business problems and solutions to become a strategic business partner in your organization.
Business Acumen for Technical Professionals
Think like a CEO—treat projects as business profits to increase profitability and promote strategic growth.
Business Analysis Certificate - Online
Accelerate the completion of your certificate. Register for the Online Business Analysis Certificate in one easy transaction and complete the certificate entirely online in six weeks. In addition, you pay only $1,850.
Business Grammar Update
Learn to apply current guidelines for the most practical correctness rules, the ones that everyone relies on daily. You will learn to write with far fewer errors, whether writing simple emails or complex reports.
Emotional Intelligence for Professional Success
Increase your emotional intelligence skills to respond positively to the emotions of others, manage stress, strengthen relationship skills, foster trust, and produce better results.
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Link the right business process model to your project requirements and activities.
Use Case Fundamentals
Learn how to leverage Use Cases as part of the requirements process. In this course you will discover effective applications of Use Cases and when to use them. This course will look at Business and System Use Cases, basic Use Case constructs, as well as practical and insightful workshops to give you the confidence to use Use Cases.
Business Analysis Planning
Effective business analysis approaches that influence project work
Achieve Results Through Personal Power and Leadership
Learn to communicate more effectively and leverage your personal leadership style to play a vital role in your organization's success.
Workforce Talent Assessment and Planning
Assess your talent and build a successful workforce plan
Assess Training Needs
Assess training needs and analyze performance improvement solutions
Create Dynamic Webinars
Design learning-centered, engaging training webinars
Deliver High-Impact Training
Acquire critical skills to engage learners and deliver high-impact training presentations
Measure Training Results
Apply several evaluation techniques to measure the impact of training
Design and Develop Training Solutions
Use instructional design principles to develop performance improvement solutions
