Stepping Into Leadership
A First Time Managers Training and 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.
Our First Time Manager Program
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 Manager Training Program – Stepping into Leadership
Stepping Into Leadership, InspireOne’s First Time Manager Training is a researched and well-crafted Management Training Program 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 in a management training program
Effectively manage self to successfully transition to a management training program role
Manage others to grow, develop, and engage team members.
Through this first time 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 first time manager training program which has been built basis our researched solution design principles. Our management training 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 first time manager 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 first time manager 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 Manager program to leaders in 50+ countries and deliver it in multiple languages. Some of the languages we can deliver this management training program are covered in the table below –
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