DIGITAL New Manager TRAINING COURSES

Empower Your Leadership with Cecilia Gorman's New Manager Training

Managers are your organization's linchpin. However, the leap to effective management often comes without necessary guidance. Cecilia Gorman's New Manager Training bridges this gap, providing foundational to advanced management and communication skills crucial for today’s leaders.

Why Invest in New Manager Training?

Great managers aren’t born; they are made. In our Manager Boot Camp course, both seasoned and first-time managers uncover high-impact lessons in leadership and management, tailored to enhance your unique leadership style efficiently.

Managers are your most critical asset.

And yet, most managers get little to no training when they start overseeing direct reports. Even learning basic leadership management and communication skills can get overlooked leading to under- and ill-equipped managers down the road.

Managers who get guidance right from the start are better equipped to handle the personalities, drama, and challenges that come with leading a team. In our Manager Boot Camp course, both experienced and first-time managers receive high-impact lessons in a targeted and efficient way.

To immediately build fundamental management skills, this micro-learning experience combines group coaching, flexible digital lessons, and supplemental discussion groups to drive learning and retention.

GREAT NEW MANAGERS DON’T JUST HAPPEN.

It takes intention, effort, and focus to develop managers. While battling high workloads and other business priorities, the development of managers often takes a back seat.

Manager Boot Camp, our online manager training course, is a collection of targeted, impactful lessons created for leaders of all levels of expertise to give them fresh insights, robust tools, and new approaches to consider with their teams. Manager Boot Camp helps turn good managers into great ones.

I can’t say enough good things about the manager training course…you’ve made me a better leader.
— Linda Kim, VP of Digital Production, RPA

customized NEW manager training Courses AND programs

More effective managers mean more effective teams.

Most companies aren’t looking to check a box when it comes to manager training. They need a comprehensive program that addresses their team’s specific needs. Customizing content and designing a learning experience to ensure higher retention and longer-term application are critical components of any manager training decision.

Clients choose to create their own programs when flexibility in both format and content is critical.

Whether you’re curating a half-day or multi-day offsite or creating an extended development program, you’ll find that our training content offers a variety of topics designed to move the needle on leadership management and performance.

Tools to customize your team’s experience may include online discussion forums, Manager Boot Camp, DISC assessments, peer accountability partners, plus on-site manager training.

Benefits of manager training for new and experienced managers:

We all know the impact training can have for someone just starting to lead. New managers are in dire need of support, advice, tools, and confidence to develop the management chops to successfully lead a team.

For experienced managers, the benefits of training can be equally as powerful. Just because a manager has years under their belt, doesn’t mean they’re leading from a strong foundation of skills.

As communicators, motivators, mentors, and drivers of work results, more experienced managers are critical in sustaining productivity and engagement on their team. For that reason alone, supporting them with training initiatives is one of the most impactful moves a company can make.

Training works to elevate these manager skills:

Confidence: to make decisions, to approach tough conversations, to delegate, to show up more assured in their leadership

Communication: in 1:1s, in difficult or touchy situations, in team meetings, when negotiating or mediating toward solutions

Feedback: knowing when and how to deliver it, delivering constructive guidance with empathy, holding their team accountable for improvement

Professional Maturity: growing in self-awareness, understanding their leadership impact, responding with thought vs. reacting with emotion

frequent manager training program topics include:

Below is a partial list of topics being taught recently. Training topics can be delivered in 1 to 2-hour sessions. As well, topics can be combined for full-day and multi-day offsite events. Cecilia will customize session content upon request.

  • What High-Impact Teams Do Differently: Foundations of Leadership Impact

  • Getting to Better Feedback: Improving the Dynamic of Giving and Receiving 

  • The Power of What You Say and How You Say It: A Manager’s Role in
    Psychologically Safe Teams

  • The Power Dynamic at Work: Understanding It & Optimizing It

  • From Conflict to Collaboration: Better Partnerships with Less Pain

  • Navigating the Time Crunch: How to Prioritize Tasks & Time for a Better Work
    & Home Life

  • No More Languishing: Fostering Flow and Fulfillment at Work

  • Safe to Speak Up: Closing the Gap Between What You Feel and What You Say

  • The Way We Lead: Connecting Individual Leadership to Overall Impact

  • Manager as Coach: A Coaching Framework to Improve Teams

  • Getting to Yes: Keys to Better Negotiation and Communication

 

What Do Managers Require the Most? 

Boost Impact Through Manager Training Courses and Programs

Being a manager necessitates not only a unique set of abilities but also a resilient disposition. Managers have an incredibly tough job, even more so in a remote/hybrid world. Everything got harder on our teams these past few years – communication, productivity, relationship-building – and managers bear the brunt of that difficult work.

If your company wants to boost both its leadership impact and its bottom line, investing in managers is the single most impactful development move you can make.

Put them on the right track with our results-driven manager training courses and Programs.

Pushing training to the back burner or waiting until the time only serves to delay the impact managers can have with the right tools and training. Our years of experience working with managers of all levels guarantee that we know their struggles and can offer solutions to help them immediately bolster their skills.

Choose from one of our online management courses or in-person training programs, or let us create a custom solution based on your organization's specific culture and challenges.

Our learning programs assist new and experienced managers in the following ways:

  • Raise self-awareness to recognize their talents and shortcomings to make better
    judgments

  • Provide tools and approaches to improve feedback conversations

  • Learn to better set expectations with the goal of impact accountability

  • Influence team morale, productivity, and performance

  • Develop trusting and transparent connections to foster stronger work relationships

TRANSFORM NEW MANAGERS INTO EFFECTIVE LEADERS

Investing in new manager training is crucial for those transitioning from individual contributors to team leaders. Our programs are specifically designed to support this shift, providing tools and strategies for effective team management and leadership development.

Develop the New Manager Skills that Growing Leaders Require to Succeed

We hear it all the time: "We have managers, but no excellent leaders."

And it makes sense: firms of all sizes are filling crucial management roles with successful individual contributors, thinking they will be excellent leaders. However, while these new managers may have great functional expertise, they frequently lack the abilities that new managers require to successfully lead a team.

What worked for them as individuals may not work for them in their new capacity. Managing a team requires an entirely different set of skills and failing to shift old behaviors may backfire.

The fact is that new leaders require a mindset and skill set transformation. However, most first-time managers receive little to no training.

The transition into management very well might be the most challenging in an employee’s career. Most new managers will report their transition was more difficult than they imagined, that they felt alienated. and that they suffer from self-doubt, making it more necessary to engage in training to develop abilities for new managers. To prosper, they must be able to transform their identity from that of an individual contributor to that of a manager of others, and they require practical tools that are suited to their specific situation.

Organizations are beginning to appreciate the need to actively develop important skills for new managers through coaching, mentorship, and access to new manager courses and support. Because most strong leaders are not natural at it; they learn through training and first-hand experience.

Frequently Asked Questions About Management Challenges and Solutions

Navigate common managerial challenges with our detailed FAQ section.

What do new managers require the most?

Becoming a manager necessitates not only a new set of abilities but also a bit of an identity makeover. Making the journey from individual contributor to manager, peer to superior, or project manager to people leader is a significant step for anyone, no matter how smart or determined they are. Learning to identify in a new role is tricky and can be awkward for most.

Promotions demonstrate to employees that you believe in them. Giving them the proper training and tools they need helps make their potential a reality.

To boost both your company’s leadership pipeline and its bottom line, investing in your organization's managers, especially the least experienced layer provides instant dividends.

How can a new manager training course help your new managers become effective leaders?

Our new manager training courses are human-centered, time-flexible, energetic and engaging – tailored to the individual as well as the particular culture and setting of your business. Our decades of study and expertise have enabled us to design learning experiences that work to convert new managers into exceptional leaders, giving them the support, resources, and actionable tools required to promote their mindset and skill set shift.

What are the most crucial challenges of a manager?

Hands down, the biggest challenge managers face is giving feedback. Time and again managers will tell us they struggle with coming up with the right words and the right approach to make the most of these conversations.

Not only that, managers must have strong intuition, organizational savviness, interpersonal adeptness, and incredible communication skills. Add that all up, and it can be a challenge to master all of these skills while ALSO delivering on their daily job duties.

What exactly is management development?

Management development is any effort to improve the skills of leaders. It’s a constant learning process that helps those who lead teams improve their general management abilities, such as giving feedback, delegating tasks, and improving communication on their teams.

Development programs often focus on generic skills designed for a broad audience. More powerful programs focus specifically on a skill or topic that a business or team is challenged with and target an immediate solution with action steps and tools. Management development has a wide range of time it takes, the budget it requires, and the effort needed depending on the scope of the program.

Click here for a How to Training Your Managers Guide

Why is management training necessary?

Well, why is any training necessary? Because companies want to grow and be profitable and they do so via the quality of their employees and the good work that these folks do. Management training is critical to help a company run successful teams. It is not only crucial for individual professional advancement but it is also required for creating and sustaining a productive work environment.

As a result, managers who engage in management training programs are more prepared to boost corporate morale, implement business solutions, and lead their teams to success. Management training is especially valuable for new managers because it gives them a solid foundation of skills to help them develop the skills and success needed to grow their team and their careers.

It was a very uplifting session and we received positive feedback on the entire experience.
— catherine crow-gorski, FORMER chief people officer easterseals
 
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