You've been promoted and are now managing a team. Congratulations! This new manager training course will help you develop the skills you need to make a smooth transition from colleague to leader. Especially since it's not always easy to manage former colleagues. The new manager's success no longer lies in his or her personal achievements, but in those of his or her team.
What's more, the new manager is now part of a management team, requiring adjustments to both interpersonal and behavioral skills.
This course has been designed to equip the new manager to build his or her transition action plan, so that he or she can succeed and become a key player in the organization.
Duration
3 days
Schedule
9h to 16h
Regular fee
$1,400
Preferential fee
A preferential rate is offered to public institutions, to members of certain professional organizations as well as to companies that do a certain amount of business with Technologia. To know more, please read the "Registration and rates" section on our FAQ page. Please note that preferential rates are not available for online training courses. Discounts cannot be combined with other offers.
$1,260
Objectives of the training
Upon completion of the course, participants will have the skills and knowledge required to smoothly transition to the position of new manager.Targeted audience
New and future managers.Prerequisite
None.
Benefits for Participants
Course architecture
It's not always easy to become a manager when you weren't one before. How do you ensure your professional transition with both your team and management? How do you deal with former colleagues? How do you develop specific managerial skills? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed during the course.
DAY 1: Conditions for success and systemics
Identifying the conditions for success.
- What does it mean to be a manager?
- Grief and loss.
- Conditions for success, associated challenges and strategies for meeting these challenges.
Identifying the internal and external environment
- Understanding your internal and external environment.
- Michael Watkins' 4 types of organizational culture.
- Examples of questions to ask your employees, according to Michael Watkins.
Clarify your managerial role
Establish a list of tasks to be carried out to ensure a successful transition:
Establish a list of tasks to be carried out to ensure a successful transition:
- Understand my new role.
- Develop a transition plan.
- Communicate with my team.
- Establish authority and trust.
- Learn and adapt.
- Delegate effectively.
- Manage relationships.
- Monitor performance.
- Develop my team.
- Staying organized.
- Maintain work-life balance.
- Seek mentoring.
Plan my team's development needs
The 5 levels of maturity, according to Olivier Devillard.
Identify my team's maturity level.
Identify concrete actions to increase my team's maturity.
The 5 levels of maturity, according to Olivier Devillard.
Identify my team's maturity level.
Identify concrete actions to increase my team's maturity.
Deepen my self-knowledge
- Identify my personality type.
- My behaviors
- What I like
- My strengths
- How am I perceived?
- My preferred mode of communication - Identify my communication expectations.
DAY 2 - In action
Recognition, redress and difficult behaviors
- Why give recognition?
- How to give recognition?
- How do I make amends?
- Practicing recognition and correction.
- Understand what constitutes difficult behavior.
- Understand the difference between disciplinary management and performance management.
- Civility in the workplace.
- How to prepare for an employee with difficult behavior.
Delegating - humanely and effectively
- 3 main reasons to delegate.
- The potential gain versus the cost in terms of time.
- How to prepare a mandate.
- Practicing humane and effective delegation.
- Best practices in delegation.
Managing meetings effectively
- Identify the main problems encountered in running meetings.
- Identify the causes and possible solutions for each problem.
- 5 essentials for effective meeting facilitation:
- The agenda
- Setting standards
- Delegating roles
- Varying facilitation techniques
- Clarifying and getting back to basics
Managing time and priorities effectively
- Identify tasks to be performed according to management functions.
- Plan execution time, frequency and action date.
- Keep track of where my tasks are.
- 5 of the 15 golden rules of time management, according to the Qualitemps method.
- Differentiate between urgent, important and priority tasks.
Preparing for Day 3
Based on the topics covered in Days 1 and 2, prepare the actions to be taken between now and Day 3:
Based on the topics covered in Days 1 and 2, prepare the actions to be taken between now and Day 3:
- What I want to try again.
- What I want to do.
- What I want to implement.
DAY 3 - Review and co-development approach (2-3 weeks later)
Review of the last few weeks
- Review of the last few weeks using the “Keep, Stop, Start” model.
- Small-group discussion and large-group feedback, to consolidate what you've learned and experienced since days 1 and 2.
Co-development
- What is co-development?
- What are the benefits?
- How to run a co-development session?
- Experimenting with co-development.
My action plan (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year)
- Take a step back from training to draw up an action plan.
- Exchange with peers on the action plan developed.
- Reflect on your long-term vision as a manager and for your team.
- Share your vision.
If you have any questions about registration, cancellation, schedules, language of instruction, etc. you will find answers in our FAQ.
Pedagogical details
Training architecture
Through role-playing, practical exercises and reflective activities, participants develop the skills that will be essential in their new management positions.
Type of training
Skill development
Skill development and knowledge integration
Decision support
Basic knowledge
Private or personalized training
If you have more than 8 people to sign up for a particular course, it can be delivered as a private session right at your offices. Contact us for more details.
Request a quoteDuration
3 days
Schedule
9h to 16h
Regular fee
$1,400
Preferential fee
A preferential rate is offered to public institutions, to members of certain professional organizations as well as to companies that do a certain amount of business with Technologia. To know more, please read the "Registration and rates" section on our FAQ page. Please note that preferential rates are not available for online training courses. Discounts cannot be combined with other offers.
$1,260
Private or personalized training
If you have more than 8 people to sign up for a particular course, it can be delivered as a private session right at your offices. Contact us for more details.
Request a quote