A free online course to teach you practical management skills, concepts, and strategies for line managers. This course will teach you the skills to be a good and confident line manager. It will include the concepts of coaching, mentoring, motivation, counselling, and communication. You will dive into the management aspects of employee performance, stress, conflicts, talent, and time. You will also get an overview of the employment law in the UK. If you have a company or want to gain management skills, this course will be helpful.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201532 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Outline the role, responsibilities, challenges, and critical skills of a line manager • Discuss the importance and ways of line managers’ involvement in coaching or mentoring • Explain the basics of motivation, inspiration, and counselling as relevant for a line manager • Describe the meaning, processes, and benefits of talent management • Identify the use of a talent management model in an organisation • Summarise the ways and benefits of developing an effective communication style • Explain performance appraisal and evaluation • Select the right tools to measure employee performance • Identify the causes of stress in the workplace and apply strategies to prevent and manage stress • Apply strategies to manage time effectively and prioritise tasks to increase productivity • Outline the preventative approach to anger management and conflict resolution • Review employment law and its implications for line managers |
| Course Code | 6392 |

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