Be a Leader, Not a Boss - Managing in the Modern Workplace
What You'll Learn in Be a Leader, Not a Boss - Managing in the Modern Workplace
Course Length:
Learning Objectives
- Clarify the scope and nature of management
- Learn some ways to deal with the challenges of the role
- Recognize the responsibilities you have to yourself, your team, and your organization
- Learn key techniques to help you plan and prioritize effectively
- Understand leadership, team building, communication, giving feedback and motivation
Target Student
If you are a new manager, or a manager building on your skills and leadership capabilities, then this is the course for you. This course will give you the skills, tools and mindset to balance growing teams, tasks and priorities. Learn some ways to deal with the challenges that come with the role you play in your organization’s accomplishments.
Course Outline
Adjusting to Your Role
This session shares methods to help participants understand the leadership formula in the new workplace and their role.
Your Responsibilities
Your responsibilities to employees, management, and yourself. This session discusses those areas of a manager’s role.
Defining Leadership
This session looks at different qualities of leadership and how to apply them authentically.
Impact + Presence + Authority = Trust
Inspiring others to actions means trust. This session will focus on the manager’s presence and impact and what authority means in building trust.
Action-Centered Leadership
This session deals with how to balance priorities in a management role using the action-centered model.
Setting Goals and Making Plans
Planning is a vital part of a successful manager’s role. Rather than being in reactive mode, planning helps the manager to be more successful and model the behaviour. This session looks at ideas regarding plans, how to use the Urgent-Important Matrix to help develop a plan, a planning case study, the elements of planning, and planning tools.
Developing a High-Performing Team
This session includes a look at the stages of team development, moving a team through those stages, team problem solving, and team leadership. Managers will work through team building tips, helping teams work toward goals and purpose.
Communication Skills
Communication skills are essential to being an effective manager. In this session, influencing by using communication skills will be practiced.
Empathy
As a manager in the new workplace, empathy is key. In this session, three types of empathy will be explored and practiced.
Social Styles
We are all unique; being aware of our social style and those of others will help managers be more effective with motivation, time and understanding.
Providing Feedback
One of the jobs of a manager is giving meaningful feedback. This session covers the BEST characteristics of effective feedback and gives participants an opportunity to roleplay this skill.
Workshop Wrap-Up
At the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.
Be a Leader, Not a Boss - Managing in the Modern Workplace
Upcoming Classes
All Public classes are held onlinewith a live instructor
| Dates | Price | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| July 26, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET | $695.00 Online | |
| November 6, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET | $695.00 Online | |
| March 7, 2025 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET | $695.00 Online |
I want to talk to someone about private or customized training
Have questions about this course? See below or reach out to our training coordinators.
Group of 4 or more? Consider private training
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When you train with us, your training will not just check a box. We make sure it is GREAT!
- Experienced Trainers
- Guaranteed to run classes
- Learning Guarantee
- Anytime after-training support for 30 days
- Bilingual training, manuals & post-training support available
This course comes with
PDF Reference Guide
Take the Reference Guide anywhere and save the environment with an electronic copy of your training Reference Guide for use on any of your computers or devices
Printed Reference Guide
Instead of the PDF that comes with your course, purchase a printed paper Reference Guide for use during your class and future reference
Can I customize my course?
OF COURSE!
Tailored Training
Your Reference Guide will follow a standard course outline but your class can be tailored to focus on the subjects that are most important to you
Use Your Own Files
You can include your own files in your training session to make it more applicable to your day-to-day role.