Management Essentials Certificate

Management Essentials - Professional Development Certificate
The Management Essentials professional development certificate is designed to empower new and prospective managers with the skills required to be effective in today’s contemporary workplaces. Setting your sights on management level is a good way to ensure your career develops. Understanding how to manage helps build a career in business management, private sector, government and virtually any organization that requires managers with relevant skills to lead the organization.  

Learning and Career Growth

These courses will help you:

• Use your leadership skills to create high engagement and empowerment within your employees 
• Prepare for change in the business environment to ensure successful future performance 
• Create highly effective teams to work collaboratively towards a common goal or purpose 
• Understand the elements of successful managing and insight into methods of managing 
• Understand key financial terms, financial reports, financial plans, and budgets and how to prepare them 
• Learn human resource concepts such as interviews, performance evaluation, and employee standards 
• Utilize time management skills for keeping the tide of external demands at bay, and how to identify stressors and address stressful situations 
• Control distractions, manage a new workforce, and deal with information overload to be more productive 
• Provide the right leadership style to accelerate employee performance, increase work passion, and help your organization thrive 

Duration and Delivery
This certificate consists of 6 courses, each 12 hours in length, for a total of 72 instructional hours. Courses are currently offered through instructor-led live online sessions. 

Fees
Course fees are $325 per course and the total cost to complete the full certificate is $1,950 based on the current course fees. The courses do not require any additional purchase of supplementary materials. Fees are subject to change. 

Getting Started
There are no admission requirements for this program. You can register for a course at any time. Courses can be taken in any order. 

Program Requirements
Courses may be taken individually, or complete any 6 of the 9 courses to obtain a Management Essentials professional development certificate. Learners must achieve an average evaluation of learning score of at least 80% in each course to meet the minimum successful completion requirement. 

Accreditation
This certificate is AIT-certified for partial credit toward Blue Seal Certification.

• For more information on the Blue Seal program and certification, please visit the Government of Alberta Apprenticeship and Training website.

Courses in the 'Management Essentials Certificate'

• Becoming a Situational Leader - MEC10
• Change Management - MEC04
• Developing & Managing Highly Effective Teams - MEC07
• Essential Skills for Managers - MEC01
• Fundamentals for the Non-Finance Manager - MEC06
• HR for the Non-HR Manager - MEC02
• Impact of Employee Engagement & Performance - MEC03
• Successfully Managing Time and Stress - MEC09
• Xceptional Productivity - XPR01