Management And Leadership
First Time Manager Essentials
Facing Challenges as a First-time Manager
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The Reality of Being a First-time Manager
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Facing Challenges as a First-time Manager
Lesson Objectives
Facing Challenges as a First-time Manager
- specify ways of establishing your credibility as a new manager
- recognize how to communicate with your team as a first-time manager
- recognize techniques for acknowledging the relationship change between you and your former coworkers
- describe ways in which you can use your new managerial position to support your former coworkers
- identify management guidelines that will help you respond to conflicting expectations in the workplace
Overview/Description
High expectations are often placed on first-time managers. Along with these expectations comes the pressure to succeed and the need to prove you belong in a management position. Establishing credibility early and building new working relationships can go a long way in helping a first-time manager succeed in adjusting to his or her new responsibilities. This course describes ways to establish credibility and manage former colleagues effectively. You'll also learn how to balance conflicting expectations as a manager.
High expectations are often placed on first-time managers. Along with these expectations comes the pressure to succeed and the need to prove you belong in a management position. Establishing credibility early and building new working relationships can go a long way in helping a first-time manager succeed in adjusting to his or her new responsibilities. This course describes ways to establish credibility and manage former colleagues effectively. You'll also learn how to balance conflicting expectations as a manager.
Target Audience
Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time
Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time
The Reality of Being a First-time Manager
Lesson Objectives
The Reality of Being a First-time Manager
- recognize the personal factors that impact a management position
- describe organizational factors that will impact your new job as manager
- recognize the typical demands that a manager must deal with
- specify common constraints faced by managers
- choose the best strategies for dealing with the mistake of taking on too much
- identify strategies for overcoming the mistake of not asking for help
- recognize strategies for helping you avoid projecting a lack of confidence
Overview/Description
Most new managers don't realize how much their new role differs from that of an individual contributor. Often, they have misconceptions about what managing entails, and they may be surprised to learn that the skills and methods required for success as an individual contributor and those needed for success as a manager are very different. This course describes some of the myths about management and their corresponding truths in order to clarify what managers really do. It also points to the typical demands and constraints of a manager's job. Finally, it describes strategies for dealing with common mistakes of first-time managers.
Most new managers don't realize how much their new role differs from that of an individual contributor. Often, they have misconceptions about what managing entails, and they may be surprised to learn that the skills and methods required for success as an individual contributor and those needed for success as a manager are very different. This course describes some of the myths about management and their corresponding truths in order to clarify what managers really do. It also points to the typical demands and constraints of a manager's job. Finally, it describes strategies for dealing with common mistakes of first-time managers.
Target Audience
Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time.
Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time.
