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Study programmes 2011-2012Last update : 14/06/2012
ERAS0003-1  Managerial Skills Development

Duration :  12h Th
Number of credits :  
Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...)First semester2
Lecturer :  Jocelyne Robert
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Course contents :  
Development of the « savoir-être » of future executives as people managers. In other words : to teach him to communicate better, to run a team, to negotiate, to be in charge of people. The Management Ethics module, on the other hand, will aim at : making future managers aware of ethical elements in corporate management; developing a clear-minded & critical attitude to these elements. We will take account for these learnings of the specificities of the enterprise in a large sense.
Better communication : 1. Basic communication mechanisms 2. Attitudes contributing in developing a good communication 3. Manipulation attitudes 4. Contribution of NLP - Meeting running & teamwork - Group dynamics : basic concepts - The role of the organizer, preparation & follow-up, meetings : success factors - Organizing autonomous teams. Participative management : Participative management by objectives - Better negotiation : - Basic mechanisms & key concepts, rational & relational dimensions - Integrative & distributive negotiation - Constraints - Reasoned negotiation methods (Fisher & Ury) - Strategies & tactics, managing conflicts within the company - After negotiations - Better staff management : - Types of management, post components, integration in a manager's function, leadership, self-analysis, teamwork, introduction of change, support limits. - « Management Ethics » Module - The responsibility of the company in some essential fields : environmental, social & human resources responsibilities - Fundamental questions : the limits of ethics, difference between morality & ethic
We will take account the situation of the participants to study more deeply some of these points.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The learning outrcomes are:
- the capacity to communicate
- the capacity to negociate
- the capacity to know concepts and theories
- the capacity to observe and to analyse
- the capacity to produce situations, to observe and to analyse with concepts and theories
- the capacity to speak about idividual situations
- the capacity to be leader
- the capacity to precise and analyse learnings
- capacity to write on observation report
- the capacity to do critical and ethical analysis of the situation
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Teaching methods
- participative method, inductive method
- interaction and personal stories
- cases sudies and roles play
Activities
Communication Exercices and presentations of the theories (systemic theory, verbal and non verbal communication, feed-back, message transformation)
Role plays
Students participation (exploration, production) Grill for observation
Cases studies and personnal stories and theoretical presentation
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
The mode of delivery is face-to-face
25-30 students by group
Assessment methods and criteria :  
1st session assessment :participation in the seminar ;written report
2nd session assessment : / porlonged 2nd session assessment :
- assessment learning objectives
- quality of the observation report
- quality of the auto-evaluation report
Importance to be precise, to give illustration of concepts, to make links with theories, ti give example
Contacts :  
E-mail: jocelyne.robert@ulg.ac.be 04 232 72 15


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