Harvard ManageMentor Modules Description

Course Course Objectives Baxter Leadership Expectations -

Course Title Language
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Business case GHR-001424 English - Create a context for making successful and ethical business decisions - Business acumen
development - Identify and analyze a range of alternatives
- Recommend one option and assess its risks
Creating a business GHR-001571 Chinese
- Create a high-level implementation plan for your proposed alternative
case
- Communicate your case to key stakeholder
Career management GHR-000742 English - Identify your core business interests, work reward values, and skills - Motivating & developing others
- Identify the career opportunities within your current role or organization that will
let you express those interests, achieve those rewards, and use or develop
those skills

Managing your GHR-001490 Chinese - Benefit from career-development resources and processes like career
career counselors, mentors, networking, informational interviewing, and professional
development reviews
- Help others manage their careers
Decision making GHR-000736 English - Create a context for making successful and ethical business decisions - Critical thinking and problem solving
- Identify common obstacles that stand in the way of effective decision making - Dealing with ambiguity
- Assess the underlying issues related to the decision
- Generate and evaluate multiple alternatives
Making business GHR-001573 Chinese - Make a final decision
decisions - Communicate and implement the decision
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Delegating GHR-000725 English - Use different methods to select the right person for the job - Motivating & developing others
- Use different approaches to delegating - Collaboration & teamwork
GHR-001577 Chinese
- Support, monitor, and track the assignment

Diversity GHR-001425 English - Understand the unique value and challenges that come with a diverse workforce - Collaboration and teamwork
- Manage diversity-related conflicts in your team - Communication
- Foster an inclusive work environment
- Leverage the advantages that diversity offers
- Recruit and retain diverse talent
- Communicate effectively with employees, partners, and customers from other
cultures

Innovation and GHR-000739 English - Recognize your own cognitive preferences as well as those of your team - Collaboration and teamwork
creativity - Assess how creativity is supported in your work environment - Motivating & developing others
- Design teams to increase their creative potential and channel conflict towards
productive purposes
- Alter attitudes, group norms, and physical surroundings in ways that improve the
likelihood of innovative results

Innovation GHR-000730 English - Draft a vision statement for your innovative idea - Customer focus
implementation - Identify key stakeholders and cultivate an informal support network - Communication
- Build a business case for your innovation
Implementing GHR-001486 Chinese - Effectively communicate your idea to get necessary approvals and resources
innovation - Manage resistance and keep people enthusiastic about your idea
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Managing Upward GHR-000740 English - Develop strategies for understanding your manager's goals and preferred - Collaboration and teamwork
working style - Communication
GHR-001578 Chinese - Build a better working relationship with your manager through effective
communication and negotiation techniques
Marketing Essentials GHR-000744 English - Grasp the basic elements of a marketing strategy and plan - Business acumen
- Create a marketing orientation in your group or firm
- Understand and navigate the steps in the marketing process
- Plan effective marketing programs, advertising campaigns, and sales
promotions
Negotiating GHR-000745 English - Understand the basic types of negotiation and the key concepts underlying them - Collaboration and teamwork
- Prepare for, conduct, and close a negotiation - Customer focus
- Maintain a good negotiating relationship with the other side and maximize value - Communication

GHR-001575 Chinese for both sides

- Avoid common errors and overcome common barriers to agreement
New Manager GHR-000721 English - Learn what to expect during your transition from individual contributor to new - Collaboration and teamwork
Transition manager - Communication
- Understand the crucial differences between being an individual contributor and
Becoming a GHR-001570 Chinese
leading a team or department
manager
- Manage the dynamics behind power and influence
- Learn how to adjust your managerial style to meet your team's or department's
performance needs
- Build effective, well-functioning teams
- Cope with the stresses and emotions of becoming a manager
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Persuading Others GHR-001701 English - Understand what persuasion is - Communication
- Build your credibility
- Gauge your audience's receptivity to your ideas as well as their decision-making
style
- Appeal to listeners' sense of logic and connect emotionally with them
GHR-001576 Chinese
- Overcome resistance to your ideas
- Activate persuasion "triggers," or mental shortcuts your audience may take to
decide whether to support your ideas
- Prompt your listeners to persuade themselves to back your proposals
Presentation Skills GHR-000735 English - Prepare an effective presentation customized for your audience and setting - Communication
Making a GHR-001574 Chinese - Deliver an effective presentation that produces action
presentation - Address questions and keep people focused during your presentation
Project Management GHR-000748 English - Scope out a project and define project objectives - Technical/functional
- Develop realistic schedules and set deadlines
- Create an accurate and usable budget
GHR-001492 Chinese
- Monitor budgets and keep projects on track
- Communicate progress and problems to stakeholders
- Assess risk and develop contingency plans
Team Leadership GHR-000733 English - Evaluate whether you should establish a team - Collaboration and teamwork
- Form a productive team - Communication

Leading a team GHR-001488 Chinese - Launch a team effort effectively

- Lead your team skillfully
- Assess your team's performance
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Strategic thinking GHR-001426 English - Understand what strategic thinking is and why it's valuable - Critical thinking and problem solving
- Recognize the personal traits, behaviors and attitudes, and cognitive capacities
that strategic thinkers demonstrate
- View strategic thinking as a process
Thinking GHR-001496 Chinese
- Apply seven strategic thinking skillsseeing the big picture; clarifying strategic
strategically
objectives; identifying relationships, patterns, and trends; thinking creatively;
analyzing information; prioritizing your actions; and making trade-offs

Strategy execution GHR-001708 English - Understand what strategy is, the elements of a strategic plan, and the strategic - Business acumen
planning process
- Develop action plans for strategic initiatives that support your company's
strategy
Implementing GHR-001485 Chinese - Execute your action plans
strategy - Ensure that your action plans remain focused and aligned with the corporate
strategy
- Evaluate and reward excellence

Time management GHR-000743 English - Analyze how you currently spend your time and pinpoint opportunities for - Technical/functional
improvement
- Identify which tasks are most critical to achieving your long-term goals
- Plan your time efficiently using scheduling tools
Managing your time GHR-001491 Chinese
- Control time-wasters
- Put your schedule into action, evaluate it along the way, and modify it as needed
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Virtual Teams GHR-000753 English - Understand the benefits and challenges of virtual teams - Collaboration and teamwork
- Create a strong foundation so that success is ensured - Communication
- Build a virtual community that promotes collaboration and ongoing
communication
Working with a GHR-001493 Chinese
- Coach a team that you can't see
virtual team
- Utilize technology to keep a virtual team organized, motivated, and productive

Writing Skill GHR-000754 English - Organize your document according to your readers' needs - Communication
- Employ a variety of strategies for jump-starting your writing assignments
- Apply editing and design principles to heighten the impact of your message

Keeping teams on GHR-001487 Chinese - Diagnose common barriers blocking team progress - Collaboration and teamwork
target - Take actions to solve team problems and improve team performance - Communication
- Resolve team conflicts
- Improve inter-dependence within teams
- Enhance team leadership skills

Leading and GHR-001572 Chinese - Understand the difference between management and leadership - Motivating & developing others
motivating - Recognize skills and characteristics of a leader - Collaboration & teamwork
- Use different leadership styles
- Establish motivating vision and get team members aligned to the vision
- Understand motivation and learn to create a motivating environment
- Learn to motivate problem employees
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Managing workplace GHR-001489 Chinese - Understand workplace stress - Collaboration and teamwork
stress - Find out ways to manage your stress and anxiety
- Develop strategies turning anxieties into actions
- Use your body to help you handle stress
- Develop good habits to alleviate stress
Measuring business GHR-001495 Chinese - Understand the importance of regularly measuring your team performance - Critical thinking and problem solving
performance - Understand performance measurement system
- Use systematic approach to measure business performance
- Avoid common pitfalls in performance measurement
- Manage team performance more effectively