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Management Skills for Supervisors Certificate

If you're interested in kickstarting or advancing your career as a supervisor or manager, consider enrolling in the Management Skills for Supervisors Certificate program. This program is designed to provide you with the essential skills you need to manage people and optimize productivity across four modules, each focusing on a specific management challenge.
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About the Management Skills for Supervisors Certificate

Successful managers possess various skills, such as management foundations, effective communication, performance and development management, and team synergy. Whether you are an aspiring manager or looking to improve your leadership abilities, this certificate program is designed to help you achieve your goals.

Collaborating with your peers and instructors in this in-person program will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to manage people and increase productivity confidently.

Let us assist you in developing the tools you need to succeed.

Program Content

Course Descriptions

Foundations of Management

Examine management styles and understand the process for transitioning from colleague to supervisor. You will gain an understanding of your own unique management identity and begin the journey to creating your Foundations of Management Portfolio.

Effective Communication 

Explore best practices for effective communication in your workplace. Determine what you need from others and what they need from you to ensure open, honest and productive communication. Develop your own management “voice” with an inter/intrapersonal action plan.

Managing Performance and Development

Learn skills to assess whether or not progress is being made toward your team's objectives and goals. Develop the capacity to manage conflict that occurs in the workplace along the way. Acquire conflict resolution processes that you can implement into your daily work culture to support resolving conflict productively and respectfully.

Synergy of Teams

Discover the dynamics of effective and collaborative teams. Explore the role of team members and the characteristics of successful teams while you develop an action plan for dealing with low-performing teams.

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Related Careers

Graduates of this program can expect to elevate their leadership skills. This program strengthens those in career paths such as: 

  • Manager

  • Supervisor

  • Team Leaders

  • Group Facilitators

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Meet the Faculty

At Red Deer Polytechnic, we are proud of our faculty members and staff who are experts in their disciplines and subject areas. 

Intakes

Winter - Start Date: Mar 01, 2024
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Spring - Start Date: May 24, 2024
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Summer - Start Date: Jul 22, 2024
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*Please note the Summer Intake takes place in person in Okotoks, AB.

Admission Requirements

There are no admission requirements to take this program. 

Program Cost

Students From Canada
Total Course Cost
$1,000.00