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Managerial Effectiveness I – A First Time Managers Development Program

Research suggests that individual contributors transitioning into first time leadership roles find themselves facing new and unexpected challenges of performing against completely different performance metrices, as compared to the ones they had earlier. Low focus & support on managing this transition leads to significant loss of productivity & engagement of teams.

Therefore, the critical areas of development for leaders who are being readied for First Time Manager role are –

Self-Awareness: Understanding the role and its key deliverables & measures, one’s strengths against the role and managing the emotional challenges of transition.
Team development and management
Managing multiple stakeholder relationships.
The capability to lead in an uncertain context.

InspireOne offers first time managers training program to help individual contributors prepare for their new role by focusing on relevant areas of leading self and leading people as multipliers.

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The First Time Managers Journey Addresses the Following Challenges

The gap in understanding the role
Challenges of adapting to the new role
Transition challenges – managing emotions
Changed performance metrics
Managing stakeholders
Being accountable for the team performance
Creating value for team members
Key people engagement, development and management skills

Our First Time Managers Development Program: Stepping into Leadership

Stepping Into Leadership, InspireOne’s First Time Managers Development Program, is a researched and well-crafted journey to enable First Time Managers to succeed

Key Program Objectives

Enable successful transitions of Individual Contributors to First Time Managers

Develop critical capabilities needed to perform role of a manager

Effectively manage self to successfully transition to a managerial role

Manage others to grow, develop, and engage team members.

Through this manager training program, we aim to work alongside with you to have a measurable impact on following success measures –

Percentage of participants achieving their goals
Development of team members
Increase in retention/ decrease in attrition
Increase in team engagement

Program Design

Stepping into Leadership is a program which has been built basis our researched solution design principles. Our program covers an intensive learning journey covering three key learning modules –

Role Understanding & Managing Self

Understand the role of a manager and transition required to perform the role.
Enhancing emotional self-awareness.
Effectively managing time to perform their role

Enabling Performance Through People

Giving feedback and having performance conversations.
Following a structured process for coaching.
Effectively managing a remote team.
Delegating effectively to colleagues.

Driving
Results

Setting and driving goals.
Applying innovative thinking techniques for operational problem solving.

Journey Design

Stepping into Leadership is a scalable blended leadership development program. Participant journey includes the following –

Assessment for each participant to identify their areas of strength and development
9 weeks learning journey comprising of 3 modules. Each module is developed using our “Making Learning Stick” framework and comprises –
- Virtual learning labs
- Gamified learning modules
- On-the-job application assignments
- Application oriented content
This program includes access to our gamified learning platform – Master-O. This platform offers an immersive learning experience comprising –
- Game-based interactions & assessments: Leverage micro-interactions and casual game-designs to engage & assess learners
- “Smart” nudges and alerts (push notifications): Nudge using behavioural psychology to enhance learner adoption and sustain engagement

Global Delivery Capability

We can offer the First Time Managers program to leaders in 50+ countries and deliver it in multiple languages. Some of the languages we can deliver this program are covered in the table below –