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Middle Manager Development Program
Leadership is more than just an appointed position. It must be a complete way of doing business and communicating with others. Many people think if they’re not born with management skills, they’re out of luck. This simply isn’t true.
Stewart Leadership’s Management Development Programs employ a proven combination of assessments, training, coaching, and on-the-job action to provide managers at all levels with the foundation for personalized leadership development. Your employees have the potential to become leaders from any level. They just need the development tools to help them get there.
Middle Manager Development Program
Leadership is more than just an appointed position. It must be a complete way of doing business and communicating with others. Many people think if they’re not born with management skills, they’re out of luck. This simply isn’t true.
Stewart Leadership’s Management Development Programs employ a proven combination of assessments, training, coaching, and on-the-job action to provide managers at all levels with the foundation for personalized leadership development. Your employees have the potential to become leaders from any level. They just need the development tools to help them get there.
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Building The LEAD NOW! Manager: The 8 Manager Skills
According to Gallup, 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined soley by the manager, yet managers today are responsible for more than engaging their team.
Leading a team is a distinctly different skillset than those relied upon by individual contributors, and those skills must be learned if organizations want to reap the rewards of a highly engaged workforce.
Stewart Leadership has identified eight core skills managers must master to fully transition from being a strong individual contributor to taking their place as a leader within your organization.
Manager Mindset
- Increasing self-awareness and building expectations of managerial success
- Navigating the identity shift from individual contributor to manager
- Aligning values, work life, energy, critical thinking, and well being
Conversation
- Conducting effective 1:1 meetings with team members
- Managing inbox and responsiveness
- Leading group meetings
- Information sharing up, down, and sideways
Prioritizing
- Knowing when to use consensus vs. other decision approaches
- Delegating and prioritizing effectively with others
- Identifying when and how to display managerial courage
Accountability
- Creating an environment of self-accountability
- Providing clear performance expectations and goals
- Following up in helpful and inspiring ways
- Managing performance challenges.
Feedback
- Providing clear positive and constructive feedback through formal and informal coaching
- Managing conflict and uncomfortable situations
- Managing reactions and building emotional intelligence
Engaging
- Selecting and building a strong team
- Creating an engaging and inclusive environment
- Developing and growing team members
- Leading career conversations
Influence
- Developing leadership presence and credibility within the organization
- Identifying ways to influence others
- Understanding the unofficial organization with political savvy
Navigating Change
- Being open to change, new ideas, and approaches
- Recognizing how to help others navigate through change
- How to create and support a continuous improvement approach
Key Advantages of Investing in Manager Development
Developing and improving your early and mid-career managers has impacts that extend beyond individual performance.
The Outsized Impact of Manager Development
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Stewart Leadership’s Approach to Middle Manager Development
Our Manager Development programs can take many forms depending on the needs of your organization.
When you contact Stewart Leadership to learn more about how we can help develop your managers, we’ll start by learning about your organization and your goals. Once we know more about what you are hoping to achieve, we will discuss the merits of different approaches ranging from workshops and coaching to fully integrated Manager Development programs.
Below are our two most popular options that most of our Manager Development engagements are built around.
Two-Day Workshop
Provides an intensive experience to develop the eight manager skills, in addition participants will:
- Understand the key relationships for leaders and managers
- Review their own self-assessment and create an Individual Action Plan
- Learn how to lead with their strengths
- Understand how to develop and coach others
Integrated Program
A blend of facilitated learning sessions and individual coaching to enhance the development for a cohort of leaders. Includes:
- Self-assessment and Individual Action Plan development
- Coaching sessions to address key manager skill areas
- Eight, two-hour workshop sessions conducted over eight months
- Consistent follow-up to retain and apply learning for immediate impact
Ready to Learn More?
Many who aspire to higher levels of leadership in their career get impatient and skip mastering the basics before they attempt to make it in management.
The path to senior leadership requires strength in the core management functions, and Stewart Leadership’s Management Development Programs will help guide managers down this path.
Contact us to establish a strategy to grow your organization’s managers.
Further Reading
Articles written by the coaches and consultants at Stewart Leadership.
7 MINDSET SHIFTS THAT WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT MANAGER
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