Advanced Management Studies Program
The Advanced Management Studies Program provides group learning and self-study experiences to
help managers improve their results through better practical skills and knowledge. The program
consists of seven (7) courses covering the major functional, technical, and human relations aspects of
management. The courses work from the point of view of practicing middle managment: obtaining
results from a sizable operating unit within an environment composed of complex stategic, technical,
human, financial, and career-related influences.
Building the Personal Skill System-- gives both a rational understanding of and valuable practice
with the most important personal skills a successful manager must apply on the job. These skills
contribute to managing the technical components of the job, to maintaining human relations at all
levels, to facillitating the work of the organization, and to career building. Written and oral
communication, problem solving and decision making, and leadership are stressed. Managers will
also develop techniques for personal time management to help control the working day to allow their
efforts to be concentrated where they will do the most good.
Topics: The Problem Solving Process; Decision Making; Time Management; Personal
Communications; Listening, Reading, Speaking; Personal Communications; Writing and Managing
Media Relations; Working the System; Leadership, Peership, and Followership.
7 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.4 CEU
Management Process Skills-- gives managers a solid command of the active, rational approach to
building an organization that achieves goals. Planning, organizing, staffing, implementing, and
controlling are presented specifically as they contribute to accomplishing the real job tasks of
management posititon.
Topics: The Management Role; Planning 1: Establishing Premises and Forecasting; Planning II: A
Top-Down Planning Model; Orgainzing; Staffing; Directing I: Delegating and Providing Resources;
Directing II: Implementing and Motivating; Controlling I: Establishing Measures of Results; Controlling
II: Comparisons and Adjustments.
10 - 2 Hour Sessions, 2.0 CEU
Professional Management Development-- Emphasis is on developing the realistic career focus that
will make a manager's persistence and determination pay off. Review of and practice with specific
development techniques will allow managers to strengthen their personal development plans by
exploiting a range of existing opportunities.
Topics: Careers in Organizations; Developing the Organization; Careers: Transitions and Paths;
Personal Career Planning and Development; Organizaiton Performance Audit; Managing Development
of Subordinates.
7 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.4 CEU
Networking in the Organization-- extends exisiting communication abilities to develop greater skills
in dealing with others in the organization, including subordinates, peers, and superiors. It covers the
relatively formal processes of setting standards, evaluating performance, and of establishing
communications linkages.
Topics: The Theory and Practice of Netwoking; Tracking Organizational Behavior; The Informal
Organization; Negotiation; Personal Selling in the Organization; The Framework for Interpersonal
Relations.
7 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.4 CEU
Financial Responsibilites and Skills-- deepens managers' knowledge of the tools of financial
management-principally budgets, financial statements and reports, and specific analyses used to
support decision making. The budget process, in particular, is explored as a case in which every one
of a manager's skills must be applied to achieve unit and organizational goals.
Topics: The Duties of Financial Management; The Basic Financial Statements; analyzing Financial
Statements; Forecasting; Budgeting; Venture Analysis.
7 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.4 CEU
Strategic and Human Structure of the Organization-- concentrates on maneuvering the operating
unit within the strategic plans and structure of the overall organization. It helps managers understand
overall corporate stategy to better pin down the role of each of the contributing parts. It applies the
concepts of competition, negotiation, and cooperation to point to ways of managing relations with
all levels of the company.
Topics: Organizational Climate; Stategies and Planning; Strategy Managment; Strategic Development
in the Organization; The Strategic Interface.
6 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.2 CEU
Knowledge Base-- leads individual managers and the learning group as a whole to examine their
position within the industry and organization in which they work. The course provides tools that help
find ways to harmonize personal skills and goals with the current situation in the company and
industry. It builds a career-planning framework for intergrating the uses of knowledge; it shows how
to establish channels of communicating for the specific purpose of building personal skills and
knowledge.
Topics: The Work-Life Interface; Practical Creativity; Applying Principles of Entrepreneurship;
Managing Personal Computers; Tying in to Facts; Services, and Support.
6 - 2 Hour Sessions, 1.2 CEU
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