After you enroll, start with Module 1: a welcome video, readings, and a 20-minute management readiness diagnostic that recommends a learning path without restricting access to any module. Then work through Modules 2 to 5 and finish with Module 6’s project, a measurable management plan for a real or representative team.

Management, in business, is the practice of organizing people and resources to achieve results. It covers hiring, setting goals, coaching, delegating, evaluating, budgeting, and holding people together through change. Managing For Dummies teaches these duties step by step to anyone responsible for a team, from the newly promoted to experienced managers who were never trained.

There is no single standard list of seven basic management skills. Managing For Dummies builds management styles and trust, hiring, goal setting, coaching, delegation, communication, performance evaluation, and financial basics, with a hands-on activity in each of Modules 2 to 5.

Management skills apply to any role that leads people and work, such as team leader, supervisor, and manager. Managing For Dummies is for people handed a team, whether promoted last month or managing for years untrained. It doesn’t prepare you for a specific job title or credential, but it offers a shareable Coursera certificate.

Managing For Dummies is a beginner-level course that builds from the fundamentals, starting with management styles and trust in Module 2. Skills that complement management include leadership, coaching, and team performance, which the Courses for Dummies collection covers in its Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring, and Leading High-Performance Teams courses.

Management courses are best understood by focus: general management builds foundations, people management develops the skills to lead a team, project management covers delivery, and strategic leadership and management addresses organizational direction. Managing For Dummies sits in the people management group, at beginner level, with hiring, coaching, delegation, evaluation, and change at its core.

Management courses typically cover planning, organizing, leadership, communication, decision-making, motivation, team dynamics, and performance management. Managing For Dummies teaches the manager’s job module by module. Module 2 covers management styles, motivation, and the shift from manager to leader. Module 3 covers hiring, goal setting, coaching, and team management. Module 4 covers delegation, communication, performance evaluation, and financial basics. Module 5 covers technology, ethics, change, discipline, and termination.

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When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.