New Manager: Build A Team, Coach And Guide, Make An Impact

A fast course with the essential skills you need to find success as a new manager

What you'll learn

Design jobs for your team that are empowering, motivating, and productive

Recruit, interview, and hire new staff

Give helpful feedback and guidance to your team

Create, track, and act on a strategy

Productively manage the relationship with your boss and peers

Develop an effective action plan for your first 90 days

Requirements

No prior management experience is required, but bring your curiosity and drive

Description

Welcome to our course for new (and aspiring) managers!Becoming a new manager is a crazy, busy, stressful, wonderful, intimidating time. Everything hits all at once.The goal of this course is to get you the essential skills you need to kickstart your management journey—to guide and train you to become an excellent new manager.As a new manager, we want to design the jobs on our staff in a way that is empowering, motivating, and productive. Team and job design are essential management skills, but not something new managers typically know how to do. Build a Team is our first major section in this course, and we’ll look at job design, staff planning, hiring, and departures.Providing great feedback to our staff is one of our fundamental responsibilities as new managers, and one of our fundamental joys. Coach and Guide is our second big section, and we’ll look at setting expectations, providing helpful feedback, performance improvement plans (PIPs), and individual development plans.And as new managers, we have ambitions—we are not wall decorations—we want to go big. Make an Impact is our third major section, and we will talk about strategy, managing up, working with our peers, finding teamwork, time management, and our first 90 days.This course includes lots of opportunities for us to try our new skills, with role plays, practice activities, and management tools.What’s not in this course? A lot. Management is a big complex area, and I’ve intentionally focused this course on the essentials to get you moving in a busy, tough, intimidating time—to help you find success fast, to help you find excellence fast.There are other courses for new managers—and they are very good—but they are two to three times the length of this course and include topics that aren’t critical for you as a new manager. My suggestion: Start here and pick up the other courses later.Life as a new manager…let’s get good at this!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Practice activity: Zoom or coffee with experienced managers

Section 2: Build a team

Lecture 3 Build a team with the company Nauto

Lecture 4 Job enrichment: Add meaning, motivation, and empowerment

Lecture 5 Job enrichment: Nauto example

Lecture 6 Practice activity: Job enrichment

Lecture 7 Job design: Parallel roles, scalability, and durability

Lecture 8 Job design: Personalization

Lecture 9 One-year-out organization plan

Lecture 10 Hire the right staff: Plan and recruit

Lecture 11 Hire the right staff: Interview and decide

Lecture 12 Onboarding our new team member

Lecture 13 Departures: Quittings, firings, and layoffs

Lecture 14 Build a team: Section wrap-up

Section 3: Coach and guide

Lecture 15 Coach and guide: Introduction and Ted Lasso

Lecture 16 Set crystal clear expectations

Lecture 17 Practice Activity: Set clear expectations

Lecture 18 Give helpful feedback, early and often

Lecture 19 Give helpful feedback: i-team example

Lecture 20 Practice activity: Give helpful feedback

Lecture 21 Consider performance improvement plans (PIPs)

Lecture 22 Support the individual development plans of our team

Lecture 23 Coach and guide: Section wrap-up

Section 4: Make an impact

Lecture 24 Make an impact as a new manager

Lecture 25 Start with why: Vision and objectives

Lecture 26 Determine our strategic direction

Lecture 27 Quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs)

Lecture 28 Practice Activity: Write an OKR for eBird

Lecture 29 Manage up: Finding a productive relationship with our boss

Lecture 30 Work successfully with our peers (other managers)

Lecture 31 Run great meetings

Lecture 32 Find teamwork

Lecture 33 Time management for managers

Lecture 34 Practice activity: Time management and your calendar

Lecture 35 Our first 90 days as a new manager

Lecture 36 Make an impact: Section wrap-up

Section 5: Course wrap-up

Lecture 37 7 key takeaways

Lecture 38 Course wrap-up

Professionals just starting their role as a new people and team manager,Ambitious professionals aspiring to become a manager,Managers with 1-3 years of experience, looking to refresh and re-energize their role