Lead Now Manager Model
Essential Skills for Managing Others
It’s said that the hardest professional transition is the one from individual contributor to manager, largely because the skills mastered by successful ICs don’t directly translate into the skills needed to effectively manage a team. Our LEAD NOW! Manager Model builds on our LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model with a with a clear focus on eight core skills all managers must master to fully transition from strong individual contributors to leaders in your organization.
The Outsized Impact of Manager Development
Eight Critical Skills for Newer Managers to Master
Whether you are looking for a development model for first-time managers or want to increase the skills of any manager, the LEAD NOW! Manager Model focuses on critical skills all managers must master to be effective in their role. From navigating the identify shift to manager to learning how to create an environment of self-accountability, our approach to manager development emphasizes the essential competencies new leaders must learn.
The Eight Manager Skills
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
Let’s work together.
Meet Our Manager Development Experts
Steve Crosby
Don’Angelo Bivens
Jennifer DePaola
Angela Bonner, ACC
John Parker Stewart
Yosi Kossowski
Mary Leaphart
Andora Hinton
Heather Ramsey, PCC
Daniel Stewart
Bill Bergau
Dara Rossi
Tony Gilliard
Michelle Greenstreet
Kaitlin Henze
Erin Ellis
Patty Beard, MCC
Dee Maddox
Lisa Seay
Kelly Mundth
Drew Jackson
Nolan Godfrey
Peter Stewart
Kitty Kollmeyer, PCC
Kristin Derwinski, ACC
Liz Tracy
Stacy Cook
Nikki Palmer-Quade
Cheryl Schlater
Nathan Magnuson
Corinne Ferris, ACC
Building the LEAD NOW! Manager
Would you like to bring the LEAD NOW! Manager Model to your organization but do not have a full cohort of managers ready to attend? You’re in luck. For a limited time, we are offering public-facing workshops in the Dallas Metro area. Enroll one or more managers, or use it as an opportunity to audit the course before bringing it in-house.
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