Live workshopLeadership Development training for teams
Effective Managerial Leadership
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Effective Managerial Leadership
- Duration
- 1 Day (8 hrs; two 4-hr sessions)
- Tuition
- $495.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
Your best individual contributor is now your newest manager.
Most managers were promoted because they were excellent at a job that is not this one. They were given a team, a title, and almost no instruction, and then left to work it out on people who report to them. The learning happens either way. The only question is who pays for it.
The cost shows up in familiar places. The manager who cannot let go and becomes the bottleneck. The one who delegates by disappearing. Expectations vague enough that nobody is ever quite wrong. A team that finds out in November that something has been a problem since June. Turnover that gets attributed to pay.
HR and learning and development leaders use this for newly promoted supervisors, or for a management layer that has been in place for years and never trained. Senior leaders use it to get consistency, so the experience of being managed does not depend on who you report to. It is the step after Developing Yourself as a Leader, which prepares individual contributors before they hold a team.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered in two 4-hour sessions
- Practice scenarios built from your organization's real management challenges
- Frameworks for delegation, expectation setting, and feedback
- A one on one structure participants can use the following week
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The day opens on the transition itself, because most new managers are still doing their old job with extra meetings. Participants work out what they are now accountable for that they were not before, and what they have to stop doing. Most identify at least one task they are holding onto because they are better at it than anyone on their team, which is exactly why they should let it go.
The middle is the core mechanics: delegation that transfers ownership rather than tasks, expectations concrete enough that both sides know what done looks like, and feedback delivered close enough to the event to matter. Participants practice the one on one as a working session rather than a status update, and learn to ask the question that surfaces a problem before it is a crisis.
The last stretch connects the team to the organization. Participants practice translating a strategic goal into what it means for their team on Monday, making a decision with incomplete information, and pushing back upward when a commitment is not realistic. Scenarios are built from your actual management challenges before delivery.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Identify what changed in your accountability when you took the team
- Delegate ownership rather than tasks, without hovering or abandoning
- Set expectations concrete enough that both sides know what done looks like
- Give feedback close enough to the event that it changes something
- Run a one on one that is a working session, not a status update
- Translate organizational goals into what your team does Monday
- Push back upward when a commitment is not realistic
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for people who currently supervise others, including newly promoted managers. Individual contributors preparing for a first leadership role should look at Developing Yourself as a Leader instead.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$495.00 per participant
Effective Managerial Leadership is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $495 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Leadership Development training
Leadership training for managers and emerging leaders
Most managers were promoted for being good at the work, not for leading people who do it. DWC leadership training gives new and experienced managers practical tools for motivating and managing performance, leading change, improving processes, and developing the next generation of leaders through talent management and succession planning.
Workshops are built around your organization's real situations before delivery, and they combine well into a leadership development series for a cohort of new managers.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Is this training for new managers or experienced leaders?
Both. Workshops range from managerial leadership for new supervisors to leading change, talent management, and succession planning for experienced leaders.
Can leadership workshops be combined into a program?
Yes. Many organizations combine several workshops into a leadership development series for a cohort of managers, scheduled around their work.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.