Win As A Manager

Name: Win As A Manager
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Deliver massive results to executives, create a beautiful work environment for your staff, and relieve your stress.

Created byBERTEIG Institute

Last updated 7/2022

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What you'll learn

Understand the Manager's Dilemma
Identify Sources of Stress
The Seven Hated Management Practices
Understand RealAgility and How it will reduce everyone's stress
Corporate Culture, Management and Stress
The Seven Beloved Management Practices
Increase Team Productivity with Focus, Communication and Quality
Deal with Slackers, Idiots and Subversives
Stop Using B.S. Metrics

Course content

5 sections • 48 lectures • 2h 0m total length

Introduction3:33
Dear Manager,
Being stuck in the middle sucks.
Executives hold you accountable for results and your staff resent your efforts to achieve them. You try to support your staff and your executives reject your ideas. You’re worried you aren’t bringing any value and you can’t imagine that your future will be any better.
You are meant for more.
We help you get unstuck.
Reduce your stress by creating more certainty in your work and stronger positive connections with your executives and staff.
Massively increase the value you create and deliver to clients and stakeholders.
Discover your true capacity to make an impact in the lives of your staff.
Real Agility™ gives you and your staff the tools and skills you need to surpass your executives’ every expectation at the same time as you create an amazing work environment for your staff, and your staff discovers that there are massive improvements in how they work.

The Management Dilemma4:24
Complex Versus Complicated3:08
Distinguish complexity from complication to guide management, as complex knowledge work, unlike complicated tasks, requires evolving and exploring, not fixed RACI-based solutions.
Individual Performance Reviews1:44
Explore why individual performance reviews are widely viewed as a worst practice for knowledge workers, demotivating and counterproductive as managers seek control and certainty, contributing to stress.
Individual Goal Setting0:57
Imposing Arbitrary Deadlines0:59
Managers navigate the pitfalls of arbitrary deadlines, compare them to natural deadlines like the Christmas season, and learn why staff motivation suffers when goals lack real constraints.
Overloading People With Work0:23
Micro-Management of Activities0:43
Setting Stretch Goals1:10
Set stretch goals by proposing X plus Y in conversations, placing workers in a precarious position and testing how performance reviews respond, while challenging the lazy assumption about knowledge workers.
Managers Assigning Tasks0:30
What is Real Agility4:01
Real agility reduces stress by aligning practices with true agile principles. Equitable Life shows leadership listening to advice drives benchmarks from 6–8 months to 2 weeks, a tenfold productivity boost.
Reducing Stress With Real Agility3:36
The Map of Real Agility6:22
The Five Key Aspects of Corporate Culture4:45
Seven Beloved Management Practices Intro0:40
Creating a Safe Work Environment3:24
Shielding People From Pointless Bureaucracy3:03
Rewarding Real Accomplishments1:18
Surprise praise and rewards for concrete achievements to create a safe, motivating environment; avoid if-then rewards and excessive praise for trivial feats, with insights from Drive by Daniel Pink.
Protecting a Team From Toxic Individuals1:59
Supporting People to Learn From "Failure"1:22
Encouraging Self-Organization2:04
Learn to foster self-organization and self-management through structured onboarding, clear expectations, and ongoing mentorship that guide new team members from onboarding to autonomous performance.
Coaching and Mentoring Staff2:04
Develop a formal coaching and mentoring approach for staff, using a coaching agreement to define expectations, objectives, signals, and limits, with practical steps you can apply immediately.
Quickly Improving Team Productivity With Focus5:04
Improving Team Productivity With Communication4:23
Improve team productivity by prioritizing face-to-face communication, whether video on or in-person, through dedicated team core hours and always-available collaboration spaces, boosting knowledge-work output two to three times.
Improving Team Productivity by Focusing on Quality2:45
Build quality in from the start by clarifying requirements and verifying, using test-driven work, automation, and root cause analysis to prevent failures and boost productivity up to 30%.
Review Your Learning

Introduction of the Trainer and Section Topic0:55
This section will help you gain perspective, accept what is within your control, and learn some useful tips and strategies for moving things forward instead of just having to deal with difficult people and learning to start focusing on what really matters.
Expected Outcomes1:02
Overview Definitions of Slackers, Idiots and Subversives0:22
What is a Slacker0:19
What is an Idiot0:21
What is a Subversive0:39
A subversive is someone who stands out and goes in a different direction, with actions and words that contravene team goals, causing frustration, anger, and disappointment, harming health and performance.
How to Deal with People and Situations0:31
Deal with difficult people by focusing on facts about how their behavior affects your work, not your feelings, and apply two directions: focus on people and focus on work.
Reflection1:35
Be Empathetic3:58
Have Perspective2:57
Start Conversations4:13
Focus on the Work: Individuals2:38
Focus in the Work: Managers5:06
Focus on the Work: Leaders1:52
Review Your Learning

Problem Statements3:53
Traditional performance appraisals and management techniques can cause tremendous dissonance for people, especially in an environment that is trying to work in an Agile way.
Often, traditional performance measurement practices serve to undo most of the benefits experienced in an Agile transformation. That, in turn, tends to demotivate people.
The lectures in the following section will help you avoid some of that pain.
Leverage Frequent Feedback4:56
Be Stubborn (But Flexible) About Goals4:57
Create Alignment and a Common Purpose3:09
Empower Employees2:08
Lead with empiricism by embracing experimentation and learning from failure, defining clear boundaries for experiments, and rewarding creativity, intrinsic motivation, and small incremental changes to foster an evolutionary, transparent culture.
Provide and Encourage Transparency2:57
Coach Managers to Become Coaches1:34
Coach managers to become coaches to boost agile engagement and growth across teams; foster a collaborative, sustainable culture with predictable delivery, while measuring coaching effectiveness via customer and team feedback.
Measure What Matters1:19
Review Your Learning

Requirements

You are managing (or will manage) other people doing knowledge work (e.g. marketing, software development, engineering, research, product development or management itself).
No other knowledge or experience required.

Description

Start making a real difference as a manager.

If you're a manager struggling to deliver results to executives, wishing you could create a beautiful work environment for your staff, and desperately needing to get some stress relief, then this course is for you.

You know that you and your staff have more to offer to your organization. But why does it seem so hard to release that potential? Why is everything so hard to get done? Why don't executives just change things? And why don't your staff just do what you ask?

Mishkin Berteig, the CEO and Chief Scientist of the BERTEIG Institute knows what you are struggling with.

In this course, Mishkin and other leadership experts guide you through all the critical principles, concepts, information, and techniques you need to recharge your management approach completely!

Take this course and follow the path to becoming a manager that gets results, who is loved by staff, and who has time to lead instead of constantly fire-fighting or writing reports:

Register now
Go through the course (just over 5 hours)
Make a real difference in your organization!

Don't miss out on the opportunity to make your life as a manager better!

Here's a quick personal message from Mishkin:

"I know you're suffering. Stress. Imposter syndrome. Frustration and anger. Fatigue. Every manager goes through this, and some never get out of it. I've interviewed hundreds of managers over the years that I have been working as a consultant, and so many are near burnout. Many even get to the point of needing a leave of absence for mental health reasons! Don't get to that point."

"Most management courses don't deal with the critical challenges faced by modern managers: unrelenting executive demands, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and organizational culture at odds with this constant chaos and crisis. No amount of financial analysis, policy-making, consensus-building, governance processes, restructurings or SMART goal-setting will give you relief."

"I know with absolute certainty how to help you. I want you to be the most amazing manager your staff have ever had, delivering massive results to your organization, and thriving with passionate pride in your own growth and contribution."

Who this course is for:

Any manager who needs help reducing work-related stress!
Senior, middle and junior managers who are struggling with capacity to get everything done.
Project managers, HR managers, functional managers, product managers, departmental managers

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 4min

Manager's Dilemma and Stress24 lectures • 1hr 1min

Dealing with Slackers, Idiots and Subversives14 lectures • 26min

Stop the BS Metrics8 lectures • 25min

Conclusion1 lecture • 4min

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