Online course
Management Skills
The skills that never show up on a diploma yet shape a career: knowing yourself, staying motivated, learning, communicating, leading, negotiating, and managing your time and money. Thirteen blocks, with something to do in every lesson.
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- 21 hours, online and self-paced
- Basic level: no prior knowledge needed
- 8 interactive exercises
- An exam with explained answers in every block
About the course
Nobody taught you to manage yourself
And it is what you will use the most. Some technically brilliant professionals stall while others, who know less, keep moving ahead. The difference usually comes down to a handful of skills that nobody teaches in an orderly way.
Technical knowledge expires; the way you work, learn and deal with people stays with you for your whole career. This course builds it methodically and in order: first yourself, then other people and, finally, your resources.
Each block stands on its own. Follow the order or start with whatever is most pressing for you.
Who it's for
Who is this course for?
You are starting out
And you would rather skip years of learning the hard way.
You now lead a team
And you are finding out that leading is a different job.
You are mid-career
And you feel that what you lack is method, not knowledge.
Technical or managerial
The course works just as well for a technical profile as for a management one.
Learning outcomes
By the end you will be able to
Know what you want
Spell out what you want to achieve and turn it into goals and a plan you can review.
Keep going
Sustain the effort through habits when motivation is not there.
Learn better
Learn and retain more with study techniques that work.
Get your point across
Communicate clearly, really listen, and give and receive feedback.
Lead and delegate
Run meetings and teams methodically, and delegate without losing control.
Negotiate with method
Prepare a negotiation from interests, alternatives and the zone of possible agreement.
Prioritize time and money
Decide where your time and money go based on what matters, not on what is urgent.
Syllabus
The full syllabus
Thirteen blocks in three stages: first yourself, then other people and, finally, your resources.
- 1 · Success and happiness: know yourself. Your purpose and your own definition of success, with indicators to measure it.
- 2 · Motivation: pursue your dreams. What gets you moving, and how habits keep you going when motivation does not show up.
- 3 · Strategy: manage your dreams. A company's strategic analysis applied to your career: mission, SWOT and a plan with dates.
- 4 · Learning and reading: the foundations of knowledge. Active recall, spaced repetition and notes you actually reuse: learning and reading so that it sticks.
- 5 · Brain and mind. Attention, memory, biases and the physical conditions for performance: your mind, minus the myths.
- 6 · Communication: express yourself effectively. Asking, persuading, speaking in public and writing a clear email or report.
- 7 · Empathy: the basis of human relationships. What it is, where its limits lie and how to practice it: listening to understand, asking without attacking.
- 8 · Leadership and teamwork. How a team thinks and decides, and how to lead it: leadership styles, delegation and feedback.
- 9 · Human relationships: friends, family and partner. Relationships are built: giving them time, setting boundaries and arguing in a way that strengthens the bond.
- 10 · Negotiation. The Harvard method: interests, options, objective criteria, your alternative and your zone of possible agreement.
- 11 · Personal marketing. Your professional value proposition, without pretense, and how to tell it in a résumé, on LinkedIn and in interviews.
- 12 · Managing money. A save-first budget, compound interest, investing and risk, and the taxes an individual pays.
- 13 · Managing time. Prioritizing between the urgent and the important, planning and executing. With two recommended videos.
Learning by doing
Try it: this is a course exercise
Sort the tasks on the list into the four quadrants and see what to do with each one: do, plan, delegate or drop. It is one of the course's eight exercises, in Spanish, and you can try it right here.
Methodology
How the course works
Format and pace
Online and self-paced, in The Singular Academy's Virtual Classroom. No dates or timetables: each block stands on its own.
Short units
Each lesson is made up of short units that explain a single idea and end with an exercise.
Interactive exercises
Eight of them, including the wheel of life, the personal SWOT and the zone-of-agreement simulator. You leave with a tool you have already used.
Exam with explained answers
Each block ends with a six-question exam in which every answer is explained.
What you need
No prior knowledge. You do need the will to apply it: every lesson ends by asking you to do something.
Why The Singular Academy?
Practicing professionals
The content was written by practicing consultants from Singular Beacon.
A structured approach
A progressive methodology designed to consolidate concepts in the right order.
Learning by doing
Interactive exercises inside the lessons and an exam with explained answers at the end of every block.
Backed by Singular Beacon
A consultancy specializing in digitalization and data strategy.
Key facts
Practical information
- Duration21 hours
- FormatOnline, self-paced
- LanguageSpanish
- LevelBasic
- Content13 blocks · 31 lessons · 8 interactive exercises · 13 exams with explained answers
- WhereThe Singular Academy's Virtual Classroom
Pricing and access
Request your access
The course is listed in the catalog and its welcome lesson is open to everyone. The rest unlocks when The Singular Academy grants you access: request it from the Virtual Classroom or through the contact form.
Course access
- Thirteen independent blocks, at your own pace
- Eight interactive exercises
- An exam with explained answers in every block
- Access from the Virtual Classroom
The Singular ecosystem
These skills, beyond the classroom
The course's skills, seen in real careers. And a reminder: leading also means looking after your team's wellbeing.
Profesionales Excepcionales
Weekly interviews in which Javier Pascual talks to leading professionals in engineering, business and technology.
Observatorio de Bienestar
A psychosocial risk assessment model tailored to your organization, built to understand and improve your people's wellbeing.
Start by managing yourself
Go to the Virtual Classroom, read the welcome lesson and request your access. If you have questions, write to us.