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 benefit from this e-course ?


How to use this self-teaching course



1. Check the learning objective of the module

2. Answer the questions with your own business experience and with the results of your search of management textbooks (Recommended: “Management” by Griffin), or your search of management encyclopedias ( Recommended: www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia )

3. Compare your answers with unmasked “Clues for answering” proposed by the teacher

4. Optional. Get opinons from the class community. Get opinion from the teacher by e-mail or class session



A. How to get the knowledge

1. Dowload and study the documents to read from this blog

2. Buy and read the textbook "Management" by Griffin at Houghton Press. Load the CD content on your computer

3. Search enotes  and Wikipedia

4. Surveys. Organize your community on this blog and get answers from this blog community

5. Optional. Get answers from the teacher's team by mail or videoconference on skype video



B. How to test your knowledge 

1. Run the exercises with your team
Download instructions from this blog

2. Fill-in the exam questionnaire
Download the exam questionnaire from this blog
Share your answers with the community
Compare your answers with the documents


C. Cage your new knowledge for easy retrieval
Dowload the legacy Master Management Program from this blog
Upgrade your MMP with punchlines from your new knowledge
Display it on your desk


D. Connect to the news flow from this blog
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