U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

The Seminar for New Managers (SNM) Blended Seminar presents the popular two week, traditional SNM curriculum in a blended format, where half of the seminar content is delivered through an online, distance-learning format, paired with a three-day in-residence experience. The seminar uses tested methods to diagnose your preferred leadership style and help you determine its appropriate use. You will also develop skills in conflict resolution, human resources management, leveraging diversity, emotional intelligence, problem solving, and communication.

This is the perfect opportunity for highly motivated new managers to learn the skills necessary for successful transition from first-line supervision into management, while spending only three days in the classroom. During the seven-week online portion, you will read books, interact with instructors, complete assessments, do online research, and work on group projects. You are required to log in to the virtual classroom twice each week. When you have completed the online portion of the class, you arrive in the classroom, meet your team members, and complete the remaining SNM experience in a three-day, intensive, interactive class. The online portion is academic and rigorous and must be successfully completed before attending the classroom portion.

• Acquire new skills to accomplish work through peers and subordinates
• Develop an enhanced sense of how to adapt leadership styles to diverse groups
• Understand better the flexibilities available in managing human resources
• Gain increased commitment to and understanding of the leadership role
• Learn the role emotional intelligence plays in managerial effectiveness

New managers (those to whom supervisors report), typically in the early stages of their management career

• Conflict Management
• Human Capital Management
• Interpersonal Skills
• Leveraging Diversity
• Problem Solving

3 Hours/Graduate