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Making the Transition to Management (Live Online)

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Overview

Develop the leadership capabilities and management competencies to succeed from your first day in a managerial position.

Course Participants:

This training is specifically designed for first-time managers or those preparing to step into a supervisory role who have less than one year of management experience and want to master essential management abilities.

Your former colleagues now report directly to you. Do you understand how to think like a manager, release your previous role, and accomplish objectives through your team's efforts? Are you able to articulate your goals to your staff? Can you work with your team to establish mutual objectives that boost output and performance?

This foundational management curriculum equips you with practical, immediately applicable tools to make an effective transition into your new leadership position. During two intensive days, you will gain comprehensive practical management knowledge and develop the confidence essential to plan effectively, coordinate team efforts, provide coaching support, motivate personnel, distribute assignments, and communicate clearly as an effective new manager.

Course Benefits and Outcomes:

  • Recognize your new management responsibilities and transition successfully to your new position
  • Gain respect and develop productive working approaches
  • Form constructive partnerships with peer leaders
  • Understand and apply fundamental management principles, including coaching, clear dialogue, staff motivation, task assignment, and performance assessment
  • Strengthen your abilities in attentive listening and constructive feedback delivery
  • Contribute effectively to your leadership team's objectives

Primary Course Topics:

  • Developing Your Manager Perspective and Mindset
  • Recognizing Expectations from Your Manager, Team Members, Peer Managers, and Customers
  • Comprehending Business Dynamics, Your Personal Strengths, and Others
  • Creating Strong Working Partnerships
  • Choosing Communication Methods That Work for Different People and Situations
  • Using Systematic Techniques to Arrange and Organize Responsibilities
  • Establishing Specific, Quantifiable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals
  • Learning Fundamental Principles of Task Distribution and Delegation
  • Using Proven Methods to Determine What Matters Most
  • Formulating and Implementing Solutions for Management Challenges

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

  • Clarify the Multiple Responsibilities and Functions of Managers
  • Understand Your Personal Approach and Others' Approaches
  • Apply Speaking and Listening Skills to Develop Strong Working Relationships
  • Manage and Schedule Work to Support Business Outcomes and Resource Availability

Adopting the Management Perspective

  • Identify Challenges and Potential Opportunities for New Managers
  • Recognize What Your Manager, Team, Peers, and Clients Expect From You
  • Describe the Different Roles and Responsibilities of Managers
  • Evaluate Your Comfort with Different Management Competencies
  • Choose Effective Methods to Manage Your Relationship with Senior Leadership

Building Stronger Working Relationships and Teams

  • Determine Your DiSC Style Assessment Results
  • Identify the DiSC Styles of Your Team Members
  • Acknowledge Strengths and Potential Challenges Associated with Different Styles
  • List Fundamental Communication Abilities for Effective Managers
  • Understand Communication Approaches to Match Various Styles and Scenarios


Achieving Results Through Your Team

  • Apply Methodical Approaches to Arrange and Coordinate Responsibilities
  • Recognize Management Standards for a Project or Assignment
  • Use Proven Methods to Determine Importance and Urgency
  • Use Solutions to Resolve Typical Management Issues

Taught by

American Management Association

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