Week 1 - What is Management? Week 2 - Management Styles Week 3 - Decision Making and Data Week 4 - Stakeholders Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more The course is designed for new or aspiring managers, or experienced managers with few or no formal qualifications.It will enable you to demonstrate your continuous professional development and go on to achieve a CMI Level 5 Award as part of the Management and Leadership, Essentials program.If you also complete and pass the Management and Leadership, Personal Development program, you’ll earn another CMI Level 5 Award. Together, these two awards will give you a CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership – the next step to Chartered Manager status. Please note, the deadline for registration on the CMI final assessment courses is 31 August 2020.

Topics Covered

• What is management?
• Personal development planning
• Influencing and communicating
• An introduction to management styles
• Classic management style theories
• The importance of management styles – trust in the workplace
• An introduction to decision making
• A possible approach to decision making
• The importance of data and information
• Decision information
• An introduction to stakeholders
• Categorising stakeholders
• Understanding stakeholders and meeting their needs