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Workshops for Newly Minted Managers

We customize all workshops to ensure that participants leave our sessions with the skills and tools needed to immediately support the vision and goals of your organization. This customized approach allows us to tailor the length of programs to meet your specific needs. If you’d like us to go in more depth on a particular topic, let us know and we can discuss customizing a full-day session from any of our half-day programs. 

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Managing Up in a Top-Down World

Let's get one thing straight. Managing Up is not about brown-nosing or becoming the bosses' favorite. It's about learning how to work within the confines of an organization to get what you need, while helping your boss and the organization meet their objectives. It's about effectively using influence, and acting with integrity and purpose.

Course Overview

Throughout this highly interactive session, participants will learn and practice ways to effectively manage relationships with those above them in order to increase effectiveness and productivity.

Who Should Attend

Managers, supervisors, team leaders, rising stars, and individuals who want to learn effective techniques for managing relationships with their bosses and key decision-makers in the organization.

Participants Will Learn

  • How to effectively manage the four most common types of leaders
  • Three common mistakes people make in the game of office politics and how to avoid them
  • How to use effective influencing skills to get what you need
  • Ways to manage difficult bosses
  • How to gain visibility from the bottom to the top

Inspirational Leadership: How to Manage Down Without Tripping Up

In this fast-paced world, you can't afford to tiptoe through management while others run circles around you. You have a small window to hit the ground running.

Course Overview

In this workshop, leaders will explore and discuss the top three skills needed to create winning teams. We'll discuss ways to eliminate obstacles that frequently sidetrack executives and managers. You'll return to your workplace with techniques you can use to immediately boost productivity and profitability.

Who Should Attend

Executives, business owners, managers, front-line supervisors, and team leaders who are looking to build champion teams.

Participants Will Learn

  • The role of a leader (it's not what you think!)
  • How to dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to become a credible boss using the Bank of Trust model
  • How to assemble winning teams by Selecting for Success
  • Confrontation without conflict
  • How to address performance situations before they become performance issues
  • How to avoid potholes that typically trip leaders up

Management Roundtables

A program for organizations committed to boosting front-line performance of newly minted managers.

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Workshops for Newly Minted Managers

Programs to optimize the effectiveness and productivity of new leaders.

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Selecting For Success: The Complete System for Hiring Top Talent

Learn how to save your company millions by dramatically improving the quality of your hires, while significantly improving productivity. Slash costly employee turnover.

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