Management & Leadership Skills in Theory & Practice

The course focuses on enhancing students’ understanding and application of management & leadership competences. The course starts with presenting and interactively discussing various roles and competences relevant when being a manager, taking into account different management contexts. Students are trained in a number of management competences. Those include: self-presentation skills, delivering bad news, conducting a job interview, conflict management and conducting a performance interview. The practice of management roles and skills is further deepened in role plays, taking into account personal strengths and challenges.

In addition to the content (which is the same as in ELS66300 Management Skills), students have to do either a management literature review including organizing a discussion panel OR organize a workshop in couples to have their peers experience management practices.

After successful completion of this course students are expected to be able to:

• Understand and analyse a range of management roles and competencies needed in different management contexts
• Have insights in and to reflect on own management competences, strengths and challenges
• Perform management skills such as bringing bad news, self-presentation, leading a job interview and conflict management
• Set an action plan for a potential career with management responsibilities
• Organise and report about a management activity for a group of peers