The Essential Guide For Effective Managers

Master flexible leadership and effective communication to build your leadership brand AND drive performance

What you'll learn
Increase your team performance
Foster empowering work relationships
Grow your leadership potential
Understand your management style
Develop your management strengths
Identify your management skill gaps
Requirements
Know company wide communication norms
Be familiar with company performance review process and parameters
Description
I want you to start your management career on the best foot possible. Managers (especially new ones) can often feel unsupported, unsure and stressed out. The HR consultancy, DDI says that new managers find the stress of the job is second only to getting a divorce! But it doesn’t have to be that way. Having the right tools in your tool belt is the first step to showing up as your best, positioning yourself as a resource, and creating value for your team and your organization. As a leader, your relationships and how you maintain them are what set you apart. This course is a comprehensive guide on how to navigate those workplace bonds and strengthen your brand as a leader in any industry.If you are a people manager who is feeling unsure about your brand, and executive presence as a leader, then you may be feeling the pressure of wanting to know all the answers, being extremely supportive, and ensuring that your team is meeting their potential. In this course, you will learn the foundational frameworks for flexible leadership styles, leading from your strengths, and emotional intelligence, so that you can connect with and empower your team on a daily basis.I created this Udemy course for you. It’s filled with real world anecdotes from my own experience as an executive coach and leadership development facilitator and manager for over 10 years. My course is filled with modern takes on age old management frameworks, and practical exercises so that you can implement each new technique into your work routines and relationships immediately.This course is perfect for brand new managers and provides a deep dive refresher for veteran leaders who are looking to revive their brand. And the best part is all you need is an open mind, a desire to improve, and some basic knowledge about your company communication norms and performance processes.Specifically, in this course you will:Define your management brandMaster flexibility in your leadershipBuild trusting manager/report relationshipsIncrease your influence with your teamDelegate with authorityCreate systems for capturing performance dataGive great feedbackReinforce your high performersPerfect your performance reviewsIn addition to learning some foundational management frameworks for flexible leadership, strengths-based leadership, and the power of What’s In It For Me (WIIFM), you will also complete several exercises to practice implementing your new knowledge. You will have access to dozens of prompts for asking the right questions, evaluating team relationships, mapping out feedback conversations and dozens of suggestions on how to drive performance without increasing costs.As a communications, leadership and executive coach who has spent years creating individualized development plans for countless managers and business owners, it has always been my delight to see a leader find their unique style and increase their influence (and their impact). In this course I have compiled the most accessible strategies for you to define your unique style as well.So Let's Do This!Enroll today and start multiplying your impact, increasing your influence and defining your leadership legacy.CPE (Continuing Professional Education)Learning ObjectivesDefine your management brandExplain how to master adaptive leadershipName the techniques to build trusting manager/report relationshipsDiscovers how to increase your influence with your teamIdentify ways to delegate with authorityExplain how to empower your reports to take more ownership of their own developmentDescribe how to create systems for capturing performance dataIdentify ways to reinforce your high performersDiscover your management styleIdentify what motivates your staffDescribe ways to incentivize higher team performanceExplain how to lead more efficient one on onesIdentify how to develop more confidence in your decision making as a leaderSummarize ways to ask better questions to foster team growthFor additional information including refunds and complaints, please see Udemy Terms of Use, which is linked from the footer of this page.For more information regarding administrative policies, please contact our support using the Help and Support link at the bottom of this page.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Why This Course

Lecture 2 What To Expect

Lecture 3 Exercise: Reflection

Section 2: Connect and Build Rapport

Lecture 4 Getting Personal

Lecture 5 Ask The Right Questions

Lecture 6 Exercise: Popular Open Ended Questions

Lecture 7 What's In It For Me (WIIFM)

Lecture 8 Ways of Working

Lecture 9 Lead With Strength

Section 3: Communication Standards and Expectations

Lecture 10 Communication Standards and Expectations

Lecture 11 Effective Managers' Tripod

Lecture 12 Manager’s Tripod: Instructing and Coaching

Lecture 13 The Effective Manager’s Tripod: Resourcing and Independent Partnership

Lecture 14 Follow Up Frequency

Lecture 15 Adaptive Guide: Follow Up

Lecture 16 Exercise: Communication Mediums

Lecture 17 Exercise: Preferred Mediums for Communication

Section 4: Trust Through Transition

Lecture 18 Relationship Bank Account

Lecture 19 Exercise: Relationship Ledger

Lecture 20 Setting Expectations

Lecture 21 Exercise: Manager in Transition Conversation Prompts

Lecture 22 Exercise: My Manager Brand

Lecture 23 When You Don't Know

Lecture 24 Exercise: Filling Your Knowledge Gaps

Lecture 25 How Can I Help?

Section 5: Leveraging Authority

Lecture 26 Structuring One-on-ones

Lecture 27 Giving Great Feedback

Lecture 28 Exercise: Map a Feedback Conversation

Lecture 29 Receiving Great Feedback

Lecture 30 Rewarding Employees

Lecture 31 Exercise: Rewards Brainstorm

Lecture 32 Hosting Performance Reviews

Section 6: Bringing It All Together

Lecture 33 Your Management Style

Lecture 34 When to Communicate What

Lecture 35 Exercise: Prepare to Win

Recently promoted, first time people managers,Seasoned managers who have inherited a new team or new reports,This course offers a deep dive into understanding your personal leadership style through the lens of adaptive leadership and effective communication/emotional intelligence. It is not for managers who have worked extensively on EQ or those who are already leveraging adaptive leadership in their management of others.