This documents comprises various skills for management education

1. MANAGEMENT SKILLS

2. AGENDA
• About the course – Review of the course outline
• Introductions
• Understanding self and others – Self-awareness and
emotional intelligence

3. ABOUT THE COURSE
• This course aims to prepare MBA students to
understand and prepare for the job market. Students
will develop an awareness of their personal brand and
create the job search tools and techniques to support
and promote their brand in the employment market.
This will be accomplished through a series of seminars,
guest speakers, group, and one-on-one experiential
exercises and feedback.

4. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AND PROCESS OF
CONDUCTING CLASS SESSIONS:
• Given the content of this course, will not be structured completely around
a lecture format.
• Seminar based - the content lends itself to a class formatted based on
informed dialogue involving all members of the class.
• Although some lecture material, this course will primarily be structured in
a seminar format.
• So much of the learning in this course will come from class discussion,
debate, and dialogue.
• Class attendance is vital. Unexcused absences will result in a significant
reduction in your overall grade.

5. REQUIRED TEXT/MATERIALS
• There are no required textbooks for this course. However, I
have created a Coursepack for purchase on the Harvard
Business Publishing Education (HBPE) website. This
Coursepack comprises a number of HBPE courses that will be
completed in this course.
• The Link to the Coursepack: See course outline

6. ASSESSMENTS
• Individual Podcast/Video Reviews - 15%
• Individual In-class Learning Enhancement (for self & others) - 20%
• Class attendance and participation, including impromptu activities (5%)
• Personal brand presentation (15%)
• Individual Learning Journal and Career Portfolio - 45%
• Individual Learning Journal (25%)
• Career Portfolio (20%)
• Group presentation Assignment – 20%
• The group oral presentation – 10%
• The presentation PowerPoint deck – 5%
• Group Peer Evaluation - 5%

7. SELF-AWARENESS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
• Can a competency/skill be developed?​
• How may a manager develop a competency/skill?​
• Possible Constraints?​

8. SELF-AWARENESS AND EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
• Diverse frameworks for understanding this
concept
• Goleman and colleagues assert:
• Comprises:
• self-awareness,
• self-management,
• social awareness, and
• relationship management.
EI competencies:

9. SELF-AWARENESS AND EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
• What is self-awareness?
• What is emotional intelligence?
• Why are both attributes important in the employment process and
beyond?
• Insights from the assigned readings?
• Insights from the assigned assessments?
• Any surprises?
• Any confirmations?
• Anticipated/planed changes?

10. PODCAST REVIEW - HOW TO
BECOME MORE SELF-AWARE
• What some of the principles, behaviours or attributes
discussed in the podcast?
• How might these principles, behaviours or attributes relate to
the employment process?
• How might you apply these principles as you participate in
the employment process?