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Become the Manager Your Team Actually Wants to Work For

Real frameworks. Concrete tactics. Built for first-time managers who want to lead with confidence from day one.

Intermediate9 hr 1 minSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

Stepping into management for the first time is one of the biggest career transitions you will face. This course cuts through generic advice and gives you proven frameworks — situational leadership, the SBI feedback model, SMART+ goal-setting, and structured delegation — applied to real scenarios you will encounter in the first ninety days. By the end you will have a repeatable management operating system that you can apply immediately, regardless of your industry or team size.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Run structured, high-impact 1:1 meetings that build trust and surface problems early

Apply situational leadership to flex your style based on each team member's readiness

Deliver specific, behaviour-based feedback using the SBI model that drives real change

Delegate work effectively by matching tasks to capability and creating clear accountability

Set and cascade meaningful goals using SMART+ criteria tied to team outcomes

Navigate common first-time manager pitfalls including role confusion and peer-to-boss transitions

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: The Manager Mindset Shift

The hardest part of becoming a manager is not learning new skills — it is unlearning the instincts that made you a great individual contributor. This module tackles the identity shift, role clarity, and the peer-to-boss transition head-on.

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From Doer to Multiplier: Rewiring Your DefaultContent · 40 min

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Navigating the Peer-to-Boss TransitionContent · 38 min

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Your First Ninety Days: A Manager's Operating BlueprintContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: The 1:1 Meeting System

The one-to-one meeting is the most powerful tool a manager has — and the most consistently wasted. This module builds a complete, repeatable 1:1 system from structure and cadence to the questions that reveal what is really happening on your team.

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Designing a 1:1 That People Actually ValueContent · 42 min

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Questions That Surface What You Actually Need to KnowContent · 38 min

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Situational Leadership: Adjusting Your Style to the PersonContent · 50 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Feedback, Delegation, and Accountability

The three most practised management skills are also the three most commonly done badly. This module gives you the frameworks and the specific language to give feedback that lands, delegate without losing control, and hold people accountable without destroying relationships.

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The SBI Feedback Model: Feedback That Actually Changes BehaviourContent · 48 min

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Delegation That Actually WorksContent · 52 min

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Holding Accountability Without Damaging RelationshipsContent · 44 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Goal-Setting and Performance Management

Goals that are set and forgotten are not goals — they are intentions. This module builds a complete goal-setting and performance management system that connects team effort to real outcomes and keeps performance conversations honest, forward-looking, and useful.

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SMART+ Goal-Setting: Writing Goals That Drive Real ActionContent · 46 min

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The Performance Conversation: Honest, Useful, and Forward-LookingContent · 50 min

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Building a High-Performance Team CultureContent · 48 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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