U-M Organizational Competencies

The following courses are designed to support your career and professional development. The columns on the right show the competencies addressed in each course. Competencies are the knowledge, skills, and attributes needed to effectively perform in your role at the University of Michigan.

  • Advancing the Mission (AM)
  • Building Relationships/Interpersonal Skills (BI)
  • Communication (CO)
  • Creative Problem Solving/Strategic Thinking (CS)
  • Development of Self and Others (DO)
  • Leadership/Achievement Orientation (LA)
  • Quality Service (QS)
  • Adapting to Change (AC)

Courses and Competencies

AM

BI

CO

CS

DO

LA

QS

AC

Advanced Listening Skills

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Advancing Your Personal Leadership Skills

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Beyond Customer Service: The Next Steps

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Be Your Strongest Self: Optimize Your Personal Strengths

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Business Communication: Writing with Power

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Business Etiquette

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Business Process Mapping

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Capitalizing On Your True Leadership Talents: A New Model

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Change can be Good: Why Change Initiatives Fail and What You can do About It

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Communicating with Bargained-for Staff: Managing Performance in a Unionized Environment

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Conducting a Successful Employee Selection Process (online)

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Conflict Management Skills for Women

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Conflict Management: The Fundamental Skills

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Creating Team Norms: The Road to Highly Productive Work Teams

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Crucial Confrontations™

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Data Driven Decision-Making

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Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Strategies to Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress

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Delegating for Results

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Delegating: Leading vs. Managing vs. Doing

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Developing Exceptional Customer Service Skills

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Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment

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Difficult Conversations

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Don’t Make a Fly into an Elephant: Improving your Effectiveness Through Better Intercultural Communication

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Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating

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E-Mail and Information Overload: Proactively Managing the Glut

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Employee Coaching That Works

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Enneagram: 9 Ways of Working Smarter

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Feedback That Works!

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Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management and Technology for Busy Professionals

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Foundations of Supervision I

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Foundations of Supervision II

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Getting More From Your Time and From Those Around You: A Manager’s Course in Time Management

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Gossip Stoppers: Creating a Positive Workplace

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Here We Go Again: Dealing With Change

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Improving Your Listening Skills

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Influencing Management and Peers

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Keeping Your Ducks In Line While Floating in a Pond of Tasks

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Light the Fuse and Spark Workplace Creativity

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Managing Confrontational Clients

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Managing Effective Meetings: Moving Your Group from Chaos to Productivity

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Meeting Management Basics: Tips and Tricks to Stay on Track (custom only)

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Motivating Without Money

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Nip it in the Bud: Managing the Declining Performer

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No-Fail E-Mail

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Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority

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Pizzazz! Pop! Pow! Presentation Skills that Wow Your Audience Beyond the Slides

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Prepare, Practice, and Present

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Project Management Fundamentals: Creating a Roadmap for Success

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Proofreading

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Quick Start for Supervisors: An Overview of Essentials for Your New U-M Role

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Resolving Conflicts Within Your Team

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Rethinking the Tug-of-War: Strategies for Dealing with Power Struggles in Your Life

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Say What You Write: Verbal Communication for Professionals

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Seeing the Glass Half Full: The Art of Optimism

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Smooth Transitions: Helping New Employees Succeed in Your Department

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So, You’re Ready to be a Supervisor? How to Make a Smooth Transition

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Spark the Leader Within: How to be Better than Average

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Strategic Employee Onboarding

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Striving for Leadership Self-Mastery: In Continuous Pursuit of Your Personal Best

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Succeeding with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®

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Take Control of Your Time: A Guide to Practical Time Management

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Taking Good Notes and Meeting Minutes

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The Art of Managing Multiple Projects and Multitasking

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The Boomers Are Leaving! What do They Know That We Should Find out Before They Go?

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The I-Opt®: A New Way of Looking at Who You Are

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The Workplace Success Advantage: Building Your Emotional and Social Intelligence (ESI)

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Turning Bad Communication Habits Into Good Ones

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Use Your 6 Thinking Hats: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving

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Walking the Dotted Line: Working for Multiple Managers

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When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Coping With Perfectionism

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Working With Difficult People and Personalities

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Write What You Say!

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Writing Effective Procedures Documents—Putting Actions Into Words

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Yes Without Guilt. No Without Fear: Assertiveness Skills

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