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Management Skills Certification Course (Now with AI!)

Used at Amazon, Unilever, Walmart, and other top firms. Learn leadership, productivity, communication skills & more!

Rating: 4.512,045 ratings63,600 students5 total hours75 lectures
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Course facts

  • Last updated 11/2025
  • English English, Arabic [Auto] , 11 more
  • Instructor: Davis Jones, Eazl.ai Courseware, Ludell Jones
  • practical AI capability and workflow improvement

What you'll learn

Practical outcomes

  • Innovate, execute on good ideas, and diffusing the ideas throughout the organization
  • Unlock more strategic information and find better ways of working together
  • Succeed in a world where smart, orchestrated networks and tiny firms that do not need much capital to compete with larger organizations
  • Make their organizations more agile, responsive, and creative

Curriculum

12 sections • 75 lectures • 5h 2m total length

Welcome to the Management Skills Certification Course3 lectures • 14min
  1. What does Picasso have to do with management? + Meet Your Instructor05:17
  2. Get the Course Study Guide, all Supporting Templates, and Special Resources Here03:29
  3. Crash Course: AI Prompt Engineering for Business Leaders05:34
The Interactive Business Simulation Game (Use When You’re Ready)4 lectures • 16min
  1. Part 1: Introducing the Business Simulation and Your First Decision05:23
  2. Part 1: Choose Your Leadership Style01:45
  3. Part 2: Negotiating with Players in Your Market02:27
  4. Revealing the Results from the Simulation Game06:01
Practical Solutions for Your Common Management Challenges10 lectures • 31min
  1. Is management about creating value through other people?01:55
  2. How to Perform Meaningful Interviews with Potential Hires03:42
  3. AI for Managers: Recruiting & Hiring Prompts05:10
  4. How to Manage High Potential People03:04
  5. Three Trust-Building Communication Strategies02:16
  6. Voices from the Field: How Do You Build Trust with Someone?04:21
  7. Quality Feedback and Coaching the Growth Mindset03:02
  8. Giving Quality Feedback and Coaching the Growth Mindset
  9. Voices from the Field: How Do You Approach Coaching for Better Performance?03:28
  10. Management Simulation: Take Over the Team at Monstera Analytics00:42
  11. Getting to Ambivalence: Personal Conflicts at Work03:01
  12. Manage the Expectations of a Star Performer 1 question
Persuading and Communicating to a Connected World8 lectures • 47min
  1. Why aren't people getting what I'm saying?02:48
  2. The CSA Persuasion Planning System04:41
  3. How to Develop a Persuasive Message03:22
  4. Pitching a New Software Investment
  5. AI for Managers: Create a Persuasive Communication Strategy03:07
  6. The Fiedler Model and Your Internal Communication Style02:49
  7. 4 Core Lessons in Visual Communication03:14
  8. Visual Communication Mini Quiz 2 questions
  9. How to Deliver Better Online and Offline Presentations03:47
  10. Pick a Practical Approach for Persuading Other Team Leaders 1 question
  11. [Optional] EazlLive: The Persuasion Planning and Argument Design Event22:48
Negotiation Training: You're Always Negotiating12 lectures • 42min
  1. Does negotiating have to be competitive?03:28
  2. Integrative Bargaining: Learning to Make a Bigger Pie03:25
  3. Voices from the Field: How to Develop Leverage When Negotiating02:35
  4. How to Prepare for High-stakes Negotiations03:40
  5. Negotiating Project Resources
  6. AI for Managers: Develop a Negotiation Strategy02:59
  7. The Psychological Factors that Impact Negotiations03:09
  8. Voices from the Field: What Negotiation Communication Tips Can You Share?03:41
  9. 5 Ways to Be Better at the Table and Close Deals03:41
  10. Voices from the Field: What Can I Do to Close More Deals?04:25
  11. Cross-cultural Negotiations and Hofstede’s 6 Dimensions03:30
  12. EazlView: Hymie Bielsky, Former CEO of Safety-Kleen Europe03:54
  13. EazlView: Ian Butcher, Partner at MWM Consulting in London03:40
  14. Negotiation Training Learning Review 4 questions
  15. Find Time Warner’s BATNA During Negotiations with CBS 1 question
Time Management Training: Maximizing Your Personal Productivity8 lectures • 23min
  1. What's the most valuable thing happening right now?03:11
  2. Bandwidth Allocation in Theory and Practice03:48
  3. Organize Your Energy with the Ultimate Productivity Recipe03:34
  4. Smart Maker Bursts and Affective Value02:42
  5. Coaching an Overwhelmed Team Member
  6. Manager Activities, IT, and Value Creation03:06
  7. The Minto Pyramid and Quality Information Flow03:53
  8. AI for Managers: Generate a Business Writing Outline03:15
  9. How to Organize Your Communication with the Minto Pyramid 3 pages
  10. Key Personal Productivity Concepts 3 questions
  11. Organize Your Presentation Using the Minto Pyramid 1 question
Exclusive Productivity Interviews + SideBYSide Tutorials5 lectures • 35min
  1. EazlView: Paul Klipp on the Ultimate Productivity Recipe04:39
  2. SideBYSide: Paul Klipp's Recipe in Action12:00
  3. EazlView: Jonathan Levi on Choosing the Right Opportunities02:29
  4. EazlView: Jenise Harmon on the Power of Saying No01:53
  5. SideBYSide: Let's Curate Elon Musk's Information Feed14:09
Economic Training: Frameworks for Understanding Global Issues7 lectures • 19min
  1. Where do business and government meet?03:07
  2. How GDP Works and Why it Matters03:24
  3. ActionLearning: Use Google Public Data to Compare GDP Trends00:14
  4. How Governments Manage their Economies02:37
  5. How Specialization and Trade Create Wealth03:16
  6. Labor Arbitrage and the Economics of Offshoring03:00
  7. Evaluating an Offshoring Proposal
  8. Environmental Limits, Risk, and Innovation03:37
  9. Interpreting Macroeconomic Signals and Using Decision-making Frameworks 5 questions
  10. How Will Government Actions Impact Your Strategy? 1 question
Exclusive Interviews with Macroeconomists and Research Tutorials5 lectures • 30min
  1. [The Nature of Financial Crises] Mish Shedlock, Economist and Blogger07:51
  2. [Cooperative Economics] Charles Hugh Smith, Economist, Author, and Blogger09:05
  3. SideBYSide: The User-friendly Public Data Resource07:02
  4. SideBYSide: Advanced Economic Data Sourcing Techniques05:55
  5. Access to Eazl's Library of Macroeconomic Databases00:12
Aligning Your Team for Extreme Performance8 lectures • 19min
  1. Should your leadership style be adapted to the situation?02:08
  2. Cultivating Your Leadership Style with 4 Guideposts01:58
  3. Sensemaking: How to Generate Insights in a Team Setting02:08
  4. The MBTI Framework: How to Appreciate Different Personality Types02:21
  5. The MBTI and Unique Personality Traits 4 questions
  6. How to Have Effective Interpersonal Exchanges02:13
  7. Cultivating an Effective Interpersonal Communication Style 2 questions
  8. 5 Steps to Creating a Compelling Vision02:37
  9. Launching a New Team Vision
  10. AI for Managers: Strategy for Communicating Your Vision03:48
  11. Building X-Teams for Extreme Performance02:01
  12. Finding Innovations, Executing, and Diffusing Through the Organization 3 questions
  13. What Approach Will You Take to Making a Big Decision? 1 question
Certificate Track Leadership Interviews4 lectures • 15min
  1. Certificate Track: Matt Moller, CTO of Crunchyroll on Technical Leadership03:06
  2. Certificate Track: Tim Haitaian, CEO of Redshelf on Startup Leadership05:01
  3. Certificate Track: Dave Johnson, COO at AUMA on Corporate Leadership02:21
  4. Certificate Track: Lomesh Shah, CEO of Nonprofiteasy on Non-profit Leadership04:14
Get Your Custom Management Skills Certificate1 lecture • 2min
  1. That's a wrap! Let's get you your custom Management Skills certificate from Eazl01:58

Who it is for

  • New managers looking to transition successfully from a production to a management role
  • Existing managers looking to get more engagement and innovation from their teams and organizations
  • Entrepreneurs who need to use "soft power" to motivate people to achieve exceptional outcomes with limited resources

Course description

Overview

This course is used at top companies like Amazon, Unilever, Walmart, Nissan, and Citibank. Course Version 7.5 | Updated November 2024 5/5 Stars: "I thoroughly enjoyed the practicality of this course. Theory is great but it's implementation of theory that makes a difference in the workplace. Great assignments and awesome interviews. I have recommended this course to my network and am sure you will too once you have comepleted this course. Great work Davis and team." - Justin Underhill 5/5 Stars: "The entire course was very detailed in each module. It was definitely not for a beginner. I am pretty sure the senior manager or the mid-level manager will appreciate this course. Illustration helped a lot too. I truly enjoyed the course." - Yoshika Okamura Similar to MIT’s Advanced Management Program (which runs a whopping $65,000!), and available here for a tiny fraction of the cost. By taking this course, you can develop a higher level of leadership and management skills to help you reach your fullest potential and deliver extraordinary value to your team, your organization, and the communities you serve. Advanced Management Training for Business Leaders Take the next step in your career! Whether you’re an up-and-coming professional, a savvy entrepreneur, or an experienced executive, this remarkable course is a tremendous opportunity to deepen your leadership and management abilities, increase your personal achievement, and make a positive and lasting impact on the people around you. With this course as your guide, you learn how to: Transform your leadership style for the current business climate Use business-grade AI prompts for management purposes (use with any model: ChatGPT, Claude, PaLM, etc.) Discover powerful solutions for common management challenges Communicate and persuade effectively in the age of digital Create a win-win negotiation that promote a long-term relationship Maximize your personal productivity and handle time constraints Understand management issues from a macroeconomic perspective Invest in yourself today and reap the benefits for years to come The Newest Frameworks for Leadership and Management Engaging video lectures, expert interviews, and interactive exercises. This course is based on cutting-edge research from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and other top-flight institutions. You’ll gain powerful leadership insights and develop must-have management capacities. The result? You can reach your career goals and become a more effective change agent moving forward. BONUS! In this Advanced Leadership Course, you’ll get insightful interviews with Brian Burwell, the leader of one of the world’s premier management consulting firms. Brian has performed consulting engagements with Fortune 100 companies from all over the world, and helps you contextualize each course lecture with his 35+ years of real-world experience. Better Team Building, Communication, Negotiation, and More This course features highly informative and beautifully designed lectures, little-known secrets from superstars of leadership and management, and interactive exercises to make these career-changing concepts come to life. The course itself is divided into three sections: In the early sections of the course, you’ll discover how to handle the most common management challenges, how to lead high-performing teams across different situations, and how to communicate effectively in the current era. Today’s business leaders must communicate in person and through digital mediums. You’ll learn about delivering effective messages through multiple channels using communication models like the ELM, Minto Pyramid, and more. In the middle sections of the course, you’ll learn how to improve your negotiation skills and increase your personal productivity. With negotiation, you’re likely to face complex scenarios during your career. You’ll develop go-to strategies for thinking “win-win” and claiming value from every high-stake negotiation. You’ll also learn how to use tools like the BATNA and Eazl’s negotiation preparation tools. From a productivity standpoint, you’ll learn to be dramatically more efficient and to work successfully with the many claims on your time and energy. In the final sections of the course, you’ll develop the ability to look at key management issues from a macroeconomic perspective. This will allow you to anticipate macroeconomic events and important changes in government policies. Last but not least, you’ll develop your own leadership style by creating leadership guideposts and then building your own tools – ones that you can use to understand your own people and work better with your own teams. Since giving you the most possible value is so important to us, Eazl is offering this course with our 30-day guarantee. If you’re not totally wowed by the content, feel free to ask for a refund. We will give you one immediately, no questions asked. Sound good? Who is the target audience? New managers looking to transition successfully from a production to a management role Existing managers looking to get more engagement and innovation from their teams and organizations Entrepreneurs who need to use "soft power" to motivate people to achieve exceptional outcomes with limited resources

Instructor

Davis Jones, Eazl.ai Courseware, Ludell Jones

Davis Jones Chief Learning Officer at Eazl Davis Jones is the Chief Learning Officer for Eazl, a business school whose courseware is used by organizations like Tesla®, Harvard, the World Bank, and Lyft® and more than 500,000 students worldwide. Mr. Jones also participated in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Leaders of Learning. Mr. Jones began his career in digital education following the publication of Career Hacking™, a learning experience helping people making career transitions. Today, it is the best-selling career management course in the history of the Internet and is integrated into undergraduate and graduate-level programs at the University of San Francisco, EDHEC Business School, Sonoma State University, and many other colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Following the publication of Career Hacking™, Mr. Jones negotiated commissions for Eazl to produce courseware on digital marketing, digital customer service, and multiple other business topics. Today, this courseware is used by organizations in both the private (e.g. Tesla®, PayPal®) and public (e.g. the World Bank) sectors. Mr. Jones earned undergraduate (economics) and graduate (MBA) degrees from traditional universities. He is also a committed lifelong learner. In addition to his participation in the Harvard Graduate School of Education Leaders of Learning program, Mr. Jones has earned credentials from New York Museum of Modern Art® (Teaching with Themes), Udemy® (Trademark Law), and independent learning organizations (Yes I’m a Designer™ / Adobe Illustrator®).