Management Development
Managers and future managers can improve their effectiveness in their current roles and prepare professionally for career growth. Programs include a local certificate series in leadership skills and a systemwide assessment center.
Emerging Leader Program
The UCR Emerging Leader Program (ELP) is a comprehensive program dedicated to developing internal talent. This one-year intensive training offers participants the opportunity to put their career goals on the fast track by enhancing their management skills, collegial networks, and understanding of the University culture. It also assists UCR in its efforts to identify, grow, and sustain the diverse leadership talent that's right here on campus.
Management Skills Assessment Program
The Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP) is a highly successful program offered throughout the UC system for more than 20 years. UCR participates in the Southern Region of California with UC campuses in our area. MSAP is designed to assess, on an individual basis, the management skills of UC supervisors and managers. The program enables participants to identify managerial strengths, gain information on skills they need to improve, learn about the range of skills necessary for effective management, practice these skills in a supportive environment, and work with a manager trained to identify professional development activities. Participants demonstrate management skills in role-playing exercises that simulate typical management activities. The participant works with their assessors to design an individualized development plan based on the assessment of strengths and improvement opportunities.
MSAP is based on an Assessment Center approach that integrates personnel from across UC departments, sites, and hierarchy to assess core competencies that have been identified as essential for UC managers. It contributes a unique value by using integrated assessment centers to change and foster organizational culture.