Manager training modules

“New Manager 101” Training Set

[Recommended set of modules for new managers. Alternatively, you can select the ones you need from the modules listed on this page]

“Professional Leadership 101” selected modules

• Key leadership skill #1: Setting clear expectations, priorities, and boundaries
• Key leadership skill #2: Tactful messaging
• Key leadership skill #3: Making complex decisions
• Key leadership skill #4: Leveraging strengths

“People-Management 101” selected modules

• Key people-management skill #1: Holding effective one-on-one meetings
• Key people-management skill #2: Giving constructive feedback
• Key people-management skill #3: Delivering effective performance reviews
• Key people-management skill #4: Managing high vs low performers
• Key people-management skill #5: Fostering career growth

“Project Management 101” selected modules

• Key project managment skill #1: Creating a robust project plan
• Key project management skill #2: Managing risk factors
• Key project management skill #3: Tracking and monitoring progress
• Key project management skill #4: Delegating and assigning work

Professional Leadership training modules

1. Expectations, priorities, and boundaries: The 3 key things every leader needs to clearly establish
2. Tactful messaging: Techniques and tips for conveying complex or difficult messages
3. Making complex decisions: Key decision-making strategies, techniques, and tools to make hard decisions and get buy-in
4. Leveraging the strengths of the team: How to utilize the strengths of the team to their full potential
   
5. Ensuring accountability: Techniques and tips for ensuring commitment and follow-through on tasks and goals
6. Establishing a thriving team culture: How to lead from the front and recruit team-culture champions
7. Clarifying the vision for the future and the road to get there: How to set a clear direction and paint a picture of success
8. Managing up and down the chain of command: How to tactfully manage expectations and when to shield the team
9. Dealing with failure constructively: Techniques and tips for responding to setbacks quickly, with minimal damage to morale
10. Managing the stresses of leadership: Tips and techniques to anticipate and mitigate the stresses of leadership

People-Management training modules

1. Effective 1-on-1 meetings: Best practices for 1-on-1 meetings to ensure maximum productivity and satisfaction
2. Constructive feedback: Techniques and tips for delivering feedback objectively, constructively, and helpfully
3. Performance reviews: Best practices for delivering maximally effective, constructive performance reviews
4. Managing high vs low performers: How to properly adjust management style based on task-relevant maturity
5. Fostering career growth: How to craft a proper Career Development Plan and tactfully navigate promotions
6. Implementing a performance improvement plan (PIP): How to properly deal with a pattern of underperformance
7. Autonomy within boundaries: How to determine and set the appropriate level of autonomy for each team member
8. Incentive structures: Good incentives to implement vs bad incentives to avoid
9. Motivation: How to understand what motivates your employees and leverage it
10. Negotiation: Techniques and tips for negotiating win-wins with your employees to get the most out of them

Project Management training modules

1. Creating a robust Project Plan: Best practices for defining a robust Project Plan and getting buy-in on the goals
2. Selecting the right project strategy: Understanding the differences between Sprint, Waterfall, and R&D project strategies and when to implement them
3. Risk mitigation: Understanding, quantifying, and responding to various types of project risk
4. Progress tracking: Techniques and tools for monitoring and quantifying project progress, including the Earned Value Method
5. Delegating and assigning work: Techniques and tips for dividing up the work fairly while optimizing for the strengths of the team
6. Running efficient meetings: Best practices for keeping meetings to a minimum and running them efficiently
7. Estimating time, effort, and cost: Best practices and techniques for estimating these properly, even in the absence of data
8. Waste (Kaizen): How to identify and eliminate waste factors
9. Tools for project management: How to select the appropriate project management tool and implement it
10. Breaking down high-level goals into achievable steps: How to set your team up for maximum success without overwhelming them, especially when the goals are lofty