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Managerial skills and effective communication

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 228-0321/01
Abbreviation MDEK
Course title Managerial skills and effective communication
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Structural Mechanics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Konečný, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Framework syllabus of lectures:/Syllabus
- Managerial competences and roles/basic terms, managerial competencies, competency models, self- perception and perception others/MBTI typology and its importance for managers, perception and its importance, managerial styles
- Supportive Communication/communication skills, principles of supportive communication and its utilization, presentation skills, active listening, LISTEN method
- Active listening, principles of effective communication and understanding of the importance of the communication form with respect to team productivity
- Understanding of the influence of the emotions and needs on the result of communication and the information transfer, spatially the difference between manipulative and respectful with respect to emotions and needs including the principles of “Nonviolent communication” and “To respect to be respected”. communication is emphasized
- Managing conflict/process and phases of conflict, manager’s role in conflict situations, procedure for solving conflict effectively
- Making decision, solving problem creatively/basic terms, decision making process and its structure, selected methods and techniques of decision-making process (Occam’s razor, Ishikawa diagram, Brainstorming, Brainwriting, Action plan, Pareto’s analysis, Mutliple criteria decision making methods – AHP, ANP
- Power and influence/basic terms, power and influence model, manipulation styles with respect to the influence of punishments, rewords and effective communication styles on the atmosphere in the team.
- Empowering and delegating/basic terms, process of delegation, advantages and disadvantages of delegating for managers and subordinates
- Motivation theory, using motivation theory in managerial work, motivating other/process model of performance management, impact of motivation on performance management, motivation’s strategies, new forms of work
- Managerial style of leading people, leadership, coaching/basic terms, managerial styles of leading people (Leadership grid, Leadership continuum, situational leadership, transformational, transactional and charismatic leadership, leadership according to Drucker and Covey, manager in the role of a coach)
- Managing teams/basic terms, team forms of work, team roles according to Belbin, team development phases, Deming’s circle of team work
- Management change/Change management, the nature of change, steps to successful change, change management and organizational structure, change strategies, change resistance.
- Business meetings – types of meetings, various types of participants and their characteristics, most common mistakes and insufficiencies of business meetings, communication methods and techniques at the business meetings

E-learning

LMS Moodle 228-0321 – Manažerské dovednosti a efektivní komunikace

Literature

BALDWIN, Thimothy, William BOMMER a Robert RUBIN. Developing Management Skills: What Great Managers Know and Do. Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008. ISBN 978-007-7225-957 .
DRUCKER, Peter Ferdinand. Management challenges for the 21st century. New York: HarperBusiness, 2001. ISBN 0-88730-999-2.
GUPTA, Samuel S. Managerial Skills: Explorations in Practical Knowledge. New Delphi: Global India Publications, 2008. ISBN 81-907-2114-3 .
REES, David a Christine PORTER. Skills of Management. 6th ed. London: Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 18-448-0645.
ROSENBERG, Marshall B., Nonviolent Communication. Puddledancer Press, 2003. ISBN: 1-892005-03-0 4.

Advised literature

HUNSAKER, Philip. L. Training in Management Skills. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN 01-395-5014-3.
WHETTEN, David A. a Kim S. CAMERON. Developing Management Skills. 5th ed. Upper Sadle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 0-13-091408-8.
COLLINS, Jim. Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 2001. ISBN 978-07-126-7609-0.
COVEY, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Free Press, 1989, ISBN: 0-7432-6951-9 .
DRENTH, A.J. The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development. New York: Drenth Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-0-9792-168-31.
DRUCKER, Peter Ferdinand. The essential Drucker. Rev. ed. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7506-8506-1.
KOTTER, John P. Leading Change. New York: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012. ISBN 978-14-2218-643-5.
MAGRETTA, Joan. What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business. New York: Free Press, 2012. ISBN 978-07-432-03-197.
MAXWELL, John C. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. 2nd ed. New York: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0-785-289-357.
TURNER, J. Rodney. The handbook of project-based management: leading strategic change in organizations. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2009. ISBN 978-0-07-154974-5.