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Management Foundations: Moving from an individual contributor to a manager (BLTP 002)


Description
(~40 min)

Before starting a new management role, it's important to prepare for a shift in mindset, priorities, and expectations. Join instructor Dr. Carolyn Goerner as she explores specific strategies for new managers to expand personal focus beyond individual performance and look to the broader success of the team. Carolyn discusses methods for successfully managing former peers, initiating difficult conversations, delegating work, talking about money, discussing performance, and more.

Topics Covered

  • How new managers succeed

  • Self-management in a new role and adopting a management perspective

  • Delegating work effectively and talking about performance

  • Managing challenging situations and having difficult conversations

  • Managing former coworkers

  • Talking about money

  • Moving forward as a new leader

Content
  • Managing Yourself in Your New Role
  • Adopting a manager's perspective
  • Your value and your new team's value
  • Managing the two-role transition
  • Delegating work effectively
  • Section Quiz: Managing Yourself in a New Role
  • Talking about Performance
  • Introduction: Stop on a DIME
  • DIME step 1: Describe
  • DIME step 2: Inquire
  • DIME step 3: Manage
  • DIME step 4: Encourage
  • Section Quiz: Talking About Performance
  • DISCUSSION: Stop on a DIME
  • Managing Challenges
  • When your leadership is questioned
  • Overseeing friends
  • Talking about money
  • EXERCISE: Managing a Friend
  • Section Quiz: Managing Challenges
  • Conclusion and Wrap-up
  • Moving forward as a new leader
  • Final Exam
  • Prepare for Learning Lab 1 - Management Foundations
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
Prerequisites