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New Manager Starter Kit
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(16 ratings)
691 students

New Manager Starter Kit

Best Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Created byBigger Brains
Last updated 11/2023
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What you'll learn

  • Explain the differences between Technical skills, Human skills, and Conceptual skills
  • Provide examples of why the balance of skill usage changes as a person moves up the career ladder
  • Know and explain the purpose behind the vision and mission of your company or department
  • Set SMART goals that align with the organization's vision and mission
  • Compare and contrast the traits of leaders using Positional Power vs. Personal Power
  • Identify behaviors that provide good examples for employees to follow
  • Develop goals for increasing trust using the Transactional Trust Model
  • Recognize and identify how personal values affect decisions and actions in the workplace
  • Explain how different perspectives bring value
  • Develop methods for discovering others' perspectives
  • Tie personal values personal values to a manager's SMART goals
  • Explain the need to challenge a process even if it appears to be working well
  • Apply the 5 Whys to identify the root cause of a problem
  • Identify types of decision-making criteria applied to a specific problem
  • List resources and activities that aid employees to perform their jobs
  • Explain when training may be a better approach than direction
  • Compare and contract reinforcement and feedback
  • Explain the 4:1 ratio and explore ways to apply it in the work environment

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 48m total length

  • Exploring the New Manager Skill Set4:56

    Discover how technical, human, and conceptual skills shape management success, and learn how to balance these as you advance from employee to supervisor, with a focus on developing human skills.

  • Setting SMART Goals7:56

    Set smart goals that align with your organization's mission and vision, using specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based criteria to guide planning and accountability.

  • Understanding Leadership and Power5:02

    Learn how positional power differs from personal power. Earn trust through human skills to balance management tasks with leadership and develop people.

  • Five Best Practices: Model the Way6:04

    Lead by example and model the way to build credibility and trust, guided by five practices of exemplary leadership; apply the transactional trust model - contractual, communication, and competence trust.

  • Five Best Practices: Inspired a Shared Vision5:36

    Explore the five practices of exemplary leadership by discovering how personal values shape decisions and actions, leveraging diverse perspectives, and translating these into SMART goals to inspire a shared vision.

  • Five Best Practices: Challenge the Process7:10

    Apply the five whys to uncover root causes behind inventory shortages, then brainstorm, select, and plan a solution against company criteria to challenge the process and drive change.

  • Five Best Practices: Enable Others to Act4:32

    Learn how leaders enable others to act by providing the right resources, tools, and targeted training. Foster the atmosphere, morale, and authority needed for teams to solve problems together.

  • Five Best Practices: Encourage the Heart7:40

    Apply the five practices of exemplary leadership by encouraging the heart through personalized reinforcement, praise, and timely recognition, while using the 4-to-1 reinforcement ratio to boost productivity.

Requirements

  • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

Learn how to apply the best practices of exemplary leadership

Making the jump from employee to manager is both exciting and challenging. The skills that got you the job aren’t the same skills that will help you succeed in management. It’s time to focus on developing the skills to communicate as a leader and influence employees in a way that empowers and motivates them.

This course follows the story of a new manager, Aaron, as he learns to lead in a way that brings his team together to accomplish their goals. The New Manager Starter Kit gathers best practices for leadership skills, power, and goal setting. Are you ready to be an exemplary leader?

With eight lessons that include both instruction and vignettes, you will watch as Aaron faces the challenges of moving from team member to manager. He must learn to lead by example, work together with his employees to set goals, and enable his team to succeed. How will the team deal with inventory problems and relationship issues with vendors? Will Aaron, Tish, Randall, and Keith come together to create a team in which they all feel valued?

Topics covered include:

  • Explaining the skills needed to be a successful manager

  • Setting SMART goals

  • Comparing and contrasting positional power vs. personal power

  • Identifying methods for increasing trust using the Transactional Trust Model

  • Discussing how personal values affect decisions and actions in the workplace

  • Identifying the importance of challenging a process

  • Applying the 5 Whys to identify the root cause of a problem

  • Listing resources and activities that aid employees to perform their jobs

  • Explaining when training may be a better approach than the direction

Almost 50 minutes of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style! A handout, optional assessments, and post-training knowledge boosters are also included in this course.

Who this course is for:

  • New managers who want to learn the skills to thrive in their new position.

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