Managing People: Engaging Your Workforce (FutureLearn)

Managing People: Engaging Your Workforce (FutureLearn)
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The course is primarily designed for people who are already working and who have, or are about to have, managerial responsibility. However, the course does not presume any prior knowledge of management theory.
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Managing People: Engaging Your Workforce (FutureLearn)
People are much more than a source of labour; we are complex and are all different from each other.

In this nine-week course you will learn how to get the most out of people in the workplace. Aimed at people who have, or are about to have, managerial responsibility in any type of organisation, this course will introduce you to reflective practice in people management.
“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” Agha Hasan Abedi

Think back to your last few days in the workplace. Were you and your team energised, focused and all delivering real benefit to the organisation? As managers our task is to deploy resources so that we can achieve results. In our rapidly changing world this is never easy, especially when our delivery is based on the efforts of other people. People can be hugely creative and enthusiastic, or negative and distracted. People are much more than a source of labour; we are complex and are all different from each other.

So how do we energise a disparate group of people and get them pulling together – and keep them pulling together? The course will arm you to deal more effectively with the challenges you regularly face. It will provide you with different ways of looking at difficult situations and will give you a broader range of techniques to use when dealing with them.

We will cover aspects of management theory and psychology, but our premise is that management is as much an art as it is a science. We cannot make you a great artist in nine weeks but we can set you on the path.
“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet” Henry Mintzberg



Free Course
The course is primarily designed for people who are already working and who have, or are about to have, managerial responsibility. However, the course does not presume any prior knowledge of management theory.