A free and easy training to be a better manager

This self-teaching course for managers, now freely open to all, is designed for the participants to the management courses of Patrick M. Georges, at the business schools of HEC Paris, the University of Brussels, the Vlerick School of Management, the Collège des Ingénieurs.
Three 8-hour tracks are available. Personal Management, Team Management and Business Unit Management.

How to benefit from this self-teaching course

1. Check the course program.
Select your weekly learning objective from the list of the 24 one-hour modules.
Open the module from the key words list below, according to their natural sequence, 1M to 24M, or to their topic.

2. Check how good you are as a manager. Answer the questions.
Study the referenced or downloaded documents. Search the web.

3. Improve your management skills. Check your answers.
Compare with the answers of this blog community or unmask the most frequent answers

4. Optional. Ask for the teacher support by e-mails, video conferences or class sessions

Get started with module 0 to check the 24 learning objectives

Click 0M on the key words list below to start

How to be a better manager ? Module 1 Track Personal Management

Learning objective of the module
Plan your training.

Questions
What are your definitions of "management" ?
List the names of the parts and chapters in a typical management textbook ?

Reading
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/management-functions
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/art-science-management
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/knowledge-workers


Survey
  1. Rank the 24 modules of this course by learning priority for you
  2. What is your favorite reference management textbook ?


Question.
How will you plan to train to manage better yourself, your team, your organization?


Clues for answering. 


You will be a better manager if your improve your personal effectiveness ( time and information management, personal strategy ), your leadership ( personal marketing and relation management, team management ) and your control on the organization


Browse the following documents

1. Browse the management textbook "Management" by Griffin at Houghton Press, ready from your B-school library. I'ts an excellent classical textbook for managers.

2. Download the document "Exam questionnaire" from the module "Download" You will be able to master all those management tools and knowledge at the end of the course

3. Download the document "Master Management Program". At the end of the course, it will be your own management knowledege provider.

Next step
Select a learning objective to start with, from the course program
We recommend to study the one-hour self-teaching module 1 to 24, on a weekly basis.