
Join CJ to navigate the transition into management, covering nine lessons on managing people, the process, and yourself, and use the workbook to prepare for each lesson.
Explore management and leadership styles, including transactional, authoritative, democratic, transformational, bureaucratic, and delegative, and learn to align your natural approach with your company culture using guided workbook reflections.
Balance trust among your team, your manager, and the company while safeguarding confidential information and driving decisions that support the bottom line through creativity and ownership.
Craft growth paths at team and individual levels to foster a capable, evolving team that tackles changing work, learns, and expands roles through pillars like technical expertise and collaboration.
Craft brief, compelling pitches by speaking the audience’s language, stating the desired outcome up front, and showing benefits for the company, customers, boss, and team in a one-page return-on-investment plan.
Explore how performance reviews use apps, self and 360 assessments, and rating scales to guide one-on-one feedback, compensation decisions, and a permanent record that informs promotions.
Learn to pull levers in costs and outputs, distinguish profit centers from cost centers, and align work with goals through postmortems and transparent progress.
Define the role with clear responsibilities and trait-based questions to screen candidates fairly across panels, then assess culture fit, problem solving, and professional priorities.
Build trust and navigate politics by staying centered, listening, and communicating rationally; learn decision making, accountability, and employment law basics to protect yourself and your team.
Align your actions as a manager with the company's top goals to maximize shareholder value by leading, delegating, and working on the business, not in it.
Just get promoted? Thinking about becoming a manager?
Management can be incredibly rewarding. You can inspire others, change people's lives, and create amazing new things. But no one said it would be easy. Besides trying to find your footing, there's a lot your company won't tell you about how to be successful and how things really work.
From performance reviews to politics, as a new manager there is a lot to figure out. That's where this course comes in. As a manager you will change. You'll be tested in new ways, you'll learn a lot, and when the unexpected happens, everyone will look to you for the answers. In these lessons you'll get the foundations for creating a successful team and career.
Topics:
The different styles of management and which works best for you
Creating an environment for your employees to be their best
Crafting growth paths to keep your team engaged
Preparing for your company and team's future growth
How to communicate so that people listen to you
Be prepared for performance reviews
Managing work in a way that matters
How to create a hiring process that finds the right people
Navigate office politics
Demonstrate your value as a leader