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Management
Essentials This Course Collection is
COURSES INCLUDE: designed to provide core
managerial skills- people
management, operations
° Leadership Toolkit for Managers management, financial
Coaching Conversations management, and coaching.
° Organizational Behavior: How to
Manage People
° Inspiring Leadership through
Emotional Intelligence Who this is for
°
° Giving Helpful Feedback New managers, aspiring
° Finance for Non-Finance managers, or existing
This Course Collection managers looking to upskill
Professionals
features courses from the
° Foundations of Everyday and refresh their core
Vanderbilt University, the
University of Illinois, UC Leadership competencies.
Davis, IESE Business School,
and Rice University.
Management Essentials

Business Essentials for

SPECIALIZATION
Managers
Vanderbilt University
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Leadership
Leadership Toolkit for TIME

hours
❏
❏
Personal Branding
Coupon
Managers hours
~12.2 total 3 per
week

❏ Management
~5.3 hours of video
❏ Personal Advertisement DESCRIPTION

Personal branding is critical for today’s executive—it distinguishes

you as a competent authority, helps you establish your own goals ~6.9 assignment hours
for continuous improvement and development of your strengths as
a business leader, and empowers you to lead change in your
organization through effective management of yourself and others.
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Ray Friedman
★ Introduction Owen Graduate School of
3 Quizzes
★ Managing Self: Management
Developing Your
Personal Brand 0 Peer-Reviewed
★ Leading Teams and Assignments
Organizations
★ Leading Change 0
Programming Ranga Ramanujam
Assignments Owen Graduate School of
Management
Management Essentials

Coaching Skills for

SPECIALIZATION
Managers
University of California, Davis
RATING 4.7 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Coaching
Coaching Conversations TIME

hours
❏ Management hours
~10 total
2.5 per
❏ Project Management week

❏ Management By Type
~2.7 hours of video
❏ DESCRIPTION

Throughout the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization, we’ve

discussed many topics for improving coaching conversations with ~5.2 assignment hours
our employees. It is now time to put all of that theory and discussion
into practice and examine great examples of common coaching
conversations!Note: This course builds on all previous courses in the
Coaching Skills for Managers specialization. TAUGHT BY

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Kris Nathworth
★ Missing Deadlines CEO, Founder & Instructor
4 Quizzes
and Dealing with
Change
★ Former High 1 Peer-Reviewed
Performer & Assignments
Consistently Late to
Programming
Work 0 Assignments
★ Dealing with Difficult
Colleagues &
Coaching the Coach
★ Key Takeaways for
Effective Coaching
Management Essentials

Foundations of
SPECIALIZATION
Management
IESE Business School
RATING 4.6 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Leadership
Organizational Behavior: TIME

hours
❏
❏
Management
Communication
How to Manage People ~11
hours
total
2.8 per
week

❏ Management Styles
❏ Organization
Development
~4.2 hours of video
DESCRIPTION
Peter Drucker, a pioneer in the field of management, once said that
people have a perverse tendency to behave like human beings. Of ~6.8 assignment hours
course, we are not machines, and certainly not programmable. But
through the study of organizational behavior, we can gain insights
into what makes people tick within a work context.
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Annaloes Raes
★ Course Overview & Assistant Professor
4 Quizzes
Week 1: Motivation
★ Week 2: Leadership
★ Week 3: Teamwork 1 Peer-Reviewed
★ Week 4: Culture Assignments

Programming
0 Assignments
Management Essentials

SPECIALIZATION Inspired Leadership

Case Western Reserve University

RATING 4.7 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED
Inspiring Leadership through TIME
❏ Leadership
❏ Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence hours
~23.6 total 3
hours
per
❏ Coaching week

❏ Communication
~4.6 hours of video
❏ Mindfulness DESCRIPTION

Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a

person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great ~19 assignment hours
leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional
Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at
many levels.
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Richard Boyatzis
★ Resonant Leadership Distinguished University
14 Quizzes
Renewal As an Professor
Antidote to Chronic
Stress 1 Peer-Reviewed
★ Emotional Intelligence Assignments
and Its Link to
Programming
Leadership 0 Assignments
★ Inspiring and
Motivating Sustained
Development, Growth
and Learning
Management Essentials

SPECIALIZATION

University of Colorado Boulder

RATING 4.6 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Staff Management
Giving Helpful Feedback TIME

hours
❏ Communication hours
~6.8 total
1.3 per
❏ Coaching week

❏ Psychology
~2.2 hours of video
❏ Supervision DESCRIPTION

This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use
to improve and motivate employee performance. You’ll never have ~4.6 assignment hours
to avoid telling an employee “the truth” again, because the seven
techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or afraid.

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Tracy Jennings
★ Introduction to Management and
5 Quizzes
Giving Positive Entrepreneurship Division
Feedback
★ Negative Feedback: 0 Peer-Reviewed
Use With Caution Assignments
★ The Seven Essential
Programming
Feedback Skills - Part 0 Assignments
I
★ The Seven Essential
Feedback Skills - Part
II
Management Essentials

SPECIALIZATION

Rice University
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Finance
Finance for Non-Finance TIME

hours
❏
❏
Capital Budgeting
Corporate Finance
Professionals hours
~16.3 total 3.3 per
week

❏ Financial Statement
~5 hours of video
❏ Financial Accounting DESCRIPTION

This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full
semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive ~11.3 assignment hours
approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you
a roadmap and framework for how financial professional make
decisions. We will cover the basics of financial valuation, the time
value of money, compounding returns, and discounting the future. TAUGHT BY

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James Weston
★ Basic Principles of Professor of Finance
6 Quizzes
Financial Valuation
Discounting
★ How to Spend 0 Peer-Reviewed
Money Assignments
★ Measuring Cash
Programming
Creation and Flow 0 Assignments
★ How Much Does
Money Cost?
Evaluating the Cost
of Capital
Management Essentials

Strategic Leadership and

SPECIALIZATION
University of Illinois at Management
Urbana-Champaign
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Leadership
Foundations of Everyday TIME

hours
❏
❏
Decision-Making
Communication
Leadership hours
~12.2 total 3.1 per
week

❏ Management
~2.7 hours of video
❏ Strategic Management DESCRIPTION

In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday
leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and ~9.5 assignment hours
managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and
how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success, and
learn the foundations of effective leadership skills.
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Gregory Northcraft
★ Course Orientation Professor of Business
7 Quizzes
★ Module 1: Head and Administration and Harry J. Gray
Heart of Everyday Professor of Executive
Leadership 2 Peer-Reviewed Leadership
★ Module 2: Individual Assignments
Decision Making
★ Module 3: Group 0
Programming Jeffrey Loewenstein
Assignments Associate Professor of
Decision Making
Organizational Behavior