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— Introduction to Management

WEEK TEN: THE EXCEPTIONAL MANAGER -STRATEGY

Semester 1, 2019

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2019 Course Experience Survey (CES)

Tell us what you think

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Your feedback is valuable

Every semester, we ask students to give us feedback on what works well and what needs to be improved

It’s called the Course Experience Survey (CES) and it helps us improve teaching, course design and content for you

It takes about 10 minutes to complete online

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For those cynics out there…

The CES matters – it’s part of making sure we’re doing a good job

The CES works – it has delivered a lot of improvements to what we do and you get

It helps you and those who come after you

It helps us

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Your feedback has an impact

Examples of change from student feedback:

Change to group sizes

Updated and more relevant content and examples

Change in class format

Change in lab tasks

Changes in assessment

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When is it happening?

The CES goes online each semester.

Semester 1 2019 CES dates

HE: Start: 6 May 2019 End: 2 June 2019

VE: Start: 6 May 2019 End: 2 June 2019

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What devices can be used to access the survey?

Desktop

Laptop

iPad

Smart phone

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There are 3 options to access the survey

1. Find the survey link in your student inbox

Sender :

Subject:

Click link in email

2. Access via

https://surveys.rmit.edu.au/Blue/

Student login is required

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3. Access via myRMIT

under ‘Launch Application’

click on ‘Student Survey’

Any questions?

Email to surveys@rmit.edu.au

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Any incentives to complete the CES?

All completed surveys will be placed in a raffle to win an iPad.

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Objectives of this Lecture

What does it take to be an exceptional manager?

Am I really managing if I don’t have a strategy?

Review of best-known classic strategy theories

How does effective execution help managers during the strategic-management process?

Introduction to Management

Functions of Management

Managing emotions at work & employees

The exceptional manager: strategy

Networking to build e-portfolios

Course Review

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The skills exceptional managers need

Technical skills

– the job-specific knowledge needed to perform well in a specialised field

Conceptual skills

– the ability to think analytically, to visualise an organization a