Professional Development Committee Updates

Mini-MBA Team Management Essentials

Twenty six RBS staff members are currently enrolled in this year’s Rutgers Business School Mini-MBA: Team Management Essentials. Topics covered to date in this ten module program include Strategic Thinking and Planning, Relationships, and Communication.

In this exciting professional development curriculum, staff members are challenged to explore how each week’s topic applies to their current work situation and what new theories and key learnings can be utilized in the RBS workplace. For example, understanding what strategy is, and is not, is important when developing a realistic, actionable plan to accomplish specific goals. How to distinguish between leadership and management is an effective tool when building, strengthening, and repairing relationships. Useful techniques were also learned on how to influence others and deepen relationships. In the class on Power Communications, students were taught to consider their AIM, an acronym for Audience-Intent-Message.

If these teasers have piqued your interest, it is not too late to register for one or more of the remaining Team Management Essentials modules (although you will not be eligible for the certification, which requires completing the entire Mini-MBA course and assigned work).

For a full schedule and module descriptions, please click here.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Jennie Fine, jfine@business.rutgers.edu.