ONLINE: Managing People

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand your own attitudes toward empowering management
• Explain how a GEM (goals, empowerment, measurement) approach to managing works in practice
• Describe the major organizational structures and the differences between them
• Explain the different factors that motivate workers and how a manager can use them to improve employee performance
• Discuss the challenges of discipline and how a manager should deal with such situations
• Identify the defining characteristics, benefits, and unique challenges of empowered teams

This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

• Entry-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as assistants, coordinators, buyers, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

• Non-procurement managers and supervisors who are responsible for either the procurement function or staff who provide procurement functions under delegated authority.   

• Professionals who are employed by governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly-owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly-funded or created organizations) that either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

• Suppliers or representatives of suppliers seeking to understand the public procurement function from a holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.