Prepare for Your New Management Role

Overview/Description
 This course will teach the skills and mindset that new managers will need to deal with the endless challenges and opportunities they will confront as first-time managers. Becoming a manager for the first time is frightening because success is based not only on the manager's own effectiveness, but on the performance of the entire staff. This course will help new managers earn respect immediately, and excel in their new positions. By assessing work group styles, new managers can develop and lead their staff to increased productivity.

Target Audience
 Any professional who is about to be, or wants to be, promoted to a managerial position, has recently become a manager, or is responsible for supervising work done through others.

Expected Duration
2 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Getting Organized

  • realize the importance of getting organized.
  • identify how to prioritize the information.
  • identify techniques to manage people.
  • identify techniques to be effective.

    • Assessing Yourself and Your Team

  • realize the value of applying appropriate leadership styles to workgroups.
  • identify the seven roles a leader should play in today's organization.
  • identify the steps involved in the use of the Ben Franklin technique to assess individual staff members.
  • recognize how to apply the right leadership style to an appropriate work situation.

    • Course Number: MGMT0101