Effective Managerial Leadership
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.
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
Description
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.
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
Details
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.
Your Leadership Training Goals, Customized to You
DWC provides expert leadership training aligned to your organization’s needs, your funding requirements, and your participants’ skill levels. With customization at every level, from content to scheduling to delivery format, DWC builds leadership training programs that produce measurable outcomes.
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Tuition
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.