Blog Post: In Touch: Key Skills to Manage and Lead

We’ve been navigating an economic crisis over the last few months that has tested the mettle of every company, large and small.    

“Government stimulus programs and the rescue of the biggest and sickest corporations will not alone resolve the problem,” writes Henry Mintzberg in his recent Harvard Business Review article Rebuilding Companies as Communities. “Companies need to reengage their people. The practice of both management and leadership needs to be rethought.”

Mintzberg calls for “leadership that might be called engaged and distributed management,” and suggests “it’s time to rebuild companies not from the top down or even the bottom up but from the middle out—through groups of middle managers who bond together and drive key changes in their organization.”

SDSU’s College of Extended Studies offers three programs for managers and leaders – at all levels of your organizations, and in any stage of your career – who share a commitment to staying current, and recognize the importance of continuing to build your leadership capacities in these times of rapid change and great challenge.

• Foundational Skills for Front Line Managers is designed for early-career managers and those who’ve been promoted to a supervisory role but haven’t yet received systematic training in management skills. Start learning the range of skills you need to be a successful supervisor or manager in today’s rapidly-changing workplaces.

• For those of you with five years of management or supervisory experience, their newest program, Core Leadership & Management, is designed to take your leadership, productivity, and innovation to the next level. 

• And Leading Strategically, which starts Sept. 25, is for experienced managers who want to gain insight around the challenges specific to senior management and prepare for further leadership opportunities.

Stay in touch: Come learn the skills of an effective and current manager and leader. For more information, please visit us online or call Kristen Cacka at (619) 594-0787.