Your Current Challenges
You have recently stepped into a first-line management or supervisor role and are ready to learn, transition, and advance into management. You have had a wealth of on-the-ground experience and knowledge in your field and naturally require making a mindset shift around your new status and responsibilities. You recognize the growth you have made up until now and are ready to confidently advance from a “daily doing” mentality in the details to step back as a solution-oriented leader adopting new habits positioning yourself as a manager of others effectively – your new team while managing expectations of your senior management. You are seeking to delegate, avoid micromanaging and teach your staff so that they can excel at their responsibilities. You want to learn how to prioritize projects, understand what’s expected of you and measure success. You are excited to roll up your sleeves, take on and drive new broader business needs and hit the ground running with your authentic style to make an impact.
Benefits and Impact
Set yourself up for success by unpacking your new role, understanding key project milestones for short and long-term planning, becoming comfortable with your direct reports and recognizing where you bridge the gap to meet expectations. Master how to "plan the work" and "work the plan" every time, leverage what you know and your unique soft skills while navigating the organization with management and peers. You will learn how to effectively walk others through your thought process and recommended approach,
communicating high-level objectives with confidence, relying on your experience and lessons learned in your field, irrespective of whether you are as well-versed in the details as your team. Learn to let go and communicate with clarity, motivate your staff, get buy-in, step back, be flexible and trust when others disagree. Develop a clear set of criteria for making decisions, connecting with your direct reports on the WHY so they can commit to the WHAT - fulfilling business goals with meaning. Work a new muscle that looks beyond the trees and trust that your experience has led up to where you are right now. Learn to delegate effectively while protecting your time to meet deadlines and look ahead to clarifying what this role looks like under your supervision in one year’s time. Self-qualify yourself to show off your best practices in this new role, balancing the supervision of day-to-day execution with a communication style that highlights your personal brand.
Who Should Attend
New supervisor and managers who have recently stepped into a leadership role and are ready to advance to a new level. In this course, they will hit the ground running, leverage their soft skills, intuition, know- how, skillsets, experience and best practices to set themselves up for a successful first year in management.
Enrollment
This course is offered as a 2-day live or virtual training seminar or workshop, self-paced online course and webinar series. A DiSC Management assessment is recommended to accompany this course.