New Supervisor and New Manager Training

NEW SUPERVISOR AND NEW MANAGER TRAINING

The 5 Disciplines of Managing Others for Transitioning and First Time Managers

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“The customized New Manager Training programs have helped us to reduce employee relations issues, improve performance, and increase engagement by helping managers to communicate, manage, and lead more effectively with their peers and teammates.

The people manager skills and follow-up have positively impacted employee engagement, retention, and performance.  Thanks again LSA!”
Noelle VanVlierbergen | HR Director | Sony

“LSA Global helped us to fundamentally rethink our approach to manager development and skill building. They consistently grounded and connected our thinking back to the business priorities and our unique culture.

The results were innovative, thought provoking, and exciting – exactly what we needed. I can’t thank them enough.”
Amanda Garrett | Director, Talent Development | Gilead Sciences

“Since the new manager training, I have been much more focused on identifying and discussing how our actions in Engineering create value.

The value proposition for me and those groups we work with is better teamwork, higher performance, and renewed motivation.”
Stewart Thoeni | Engineering Director | International Game Technology

New Manager Training

The knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead and manage people is not intuitive and, for all but a few, does not come naturally. And unfortunately, most new managers are not ready to lead.  In fact, according to a recent management study by the Corporate Executive Board:

  • Only 25% of employees say that their companies are good at helping individuals transition into their first managerial roles
  • A whopping 60% of new people managers under perform in their first year
  • 85% of new people managers receive no formal training prior to becoming a new manager

That makes it pretty tough on everyone else.

We know that poor management transitions create poor new managers. Often combined with our people manager assessment center, this customized and highly interactive new supervisor and new manager training program provides a powerful first step toward building management skills and leadership capabilities that will enable managers to improve performance, decrease attrition, increase employee engagement, and minimize employee relation issues.

New supervisors and new managers will learn and practice proven people manager principles, approaches, and tools that concentrate on the five disciplines of managing others within their unique organizational culture:

  1. Understanding a manager’s role in your organization
  2. Communicating as a manager
  3. Implementing performance planning
  4. Motivating and incentivizing higher performance
  5. Prioritizing, decision-making, and delegating

These five areas of the highly customized new supervisor and new manager training program provide participants with a fundamental grounding in what it means to be a new leader. As managers grow and the nature of their responsibilities and challenges change, mastery in these five management disciplines creates the confidence and competence required to succeed.

Objectives
This experiential new supervisor and new manager training workshop has six key objectives:

  • Demonstrate proficiency with foundational management principles and skills that matter most at your company.
  • Understand and use critical communication skills that enable managers to have productive, mutually beneficial performance management conversations and effectively navigate difficult employee situations.
  • Establish performance measures and set goals with employees that support individual development, career aspirations and organizational objectives.
  • Set priorities that are aligned with key stakeholders.
  • Make decisions by design with your team.
  • Delegate to maximize team performance and organizational resources.
  • Create effective teams by applying proven management disciplines.

Benefits
Organizations that roll-out, implement, and reinforce new supervisor and new manager training programs consistently benefit from:

  • Increased performance and organizational productivity
  • More effective execution of strategic initiatives
  • Greater level of workforce engagement and retention of top performers
  • Increased bench strength in the manager pipeline

New Manager Training Course Outline

I.  Your Role and Responsibility as a New Manager

  • Understand “best or preferred” practices used by effective managers
  • Identify distinctions between the roles of an Individual Contributor and a Manager
  • Understand your role and responsibilities as a manager at your organization

II.  Communicating as a New Manager

  • Gain an understanding of communication styles
  • Learn to match the right communication style with your objectives
  • Know the communication barriers that can cause challenges and misunderstandings
  • Learn communication distinctions: directing vs. informing and open-ended vs. close-ended questions

III.  Performance Planning

  • Establish measures and identify targets that will enable your team to be forward-focused in reaching their goals
  • Know how to effectively communicate goals
  • Learn how to create SMART goals and provide objective and actionable feedback
  • Practice having coaching conversations
  • Learn to deliver both positive and constructive feedback that will resonate and spark improved performance
  • Learn the tools to manage difficult conversations and handle conflict

IV.  Motivation and Incentive Systems

  • Understand employee motivation and how it affects employee performance, engagement, and retention
  • Learn how to correlate each individual’s core needs to the work at hand to drive success

V.  Prioritizing, Decision Making, and Delegating

  • Discover tips and techniques to manage your time more effectively to drive productivity and efficiency
  • Learn to identify what is important vs. what is urgent
  • Understand the top challenges with priority setting
  • Be able to make better and faster decisions
  • Learn the basic rule to decide if you should do it yourself or delegate
  • Practice delegating, measuring the results, and providing feedback
  • Understand the challenges with delegation


Delivery Methodology
Real-life, relevant management scenarios from your organization are used with a combination of the following steps in a way that makes sense for your unique situation:

  1. Assessment
    Management effectiveness assessments, simulations, interviews, and pre-work.
  2. Design & Delivery
    Design and delivery depends upon your desired outcomes.  Typically, our customized new manager programs range from half-day targeted workshops to six month action learning sessions focused on your key management challenges, practices and scenarios.
  3. Reinforcement
    Reinforcement has a measurable impact on the transfer of learning for new managers.  Typical support mechanisms include:
  • Senior leadership performance coaching and reinforcement sessions
  • Action-planning assignments, monitoring, and review
  • Post-workshop one-on-one coaching, group coaching, and learning reinforcement sessions
  • Weekly online new manager microlearning, job aids, tools, and tips
  • Follow-up manager effectiveness assessment correlated to employee performance, employee engagement, employee retention, or employee relation issues

Target Audience
Any new manager, new supervisor, and high-potential management candidate who is moving from being an individual contributor to a new people manager and who must now get results through others.

To speak with an LSA Expert to learn about the new supervisor and new manager training program customization and delivery options, please contact us.

Related Information

Harmonic has worked with LSA for over 8 years. We have found their partnership extremely beneficial.

We recently implemented customized Management Development Programs designed to support our company’s strategic initiative of hiring, building, and retaining key intellectual property and human talent.  It has had the greatest impact.

I would recommend LSA to any company that’s looking for a trusted training and development partner to take their leaders and managers to the next level.

Janice Passarello
Director of Human Resources

For our go to training outsourcing partner, LSA provides exactly what we want and need – which is not an easy task.

As always, they design and deliver outstanding leadership development results and high quality management training programs that totally align with our unique business and talent strategies!

Elizabeth Siebert
Director, Organizational Excellence & Development

Intuit

I appreciate that each management development program is preceded by a thorough training needs assessment of the participants that informs a design to fit the specific parameters and needs of the group.

The highly interactive delivery is provided by recognized experts in their fields. On the spot coaching is provided during the program and each participant receives individual follow-up after the course.

Courses can be delivered in-person or virtually.

Given the nature of Cisco’s business and the way we operate, these remote workshops are a must for anyone who joins our company. Their work is eye opening. Great content and fantastic delivery.

Frank J. Kuypers
Business Development Manager

A key to performance improvement is cultivating the proper type of motivation.

Since the performance management training, I have been much more focused on identifying and discussing how our actions in Engineering create value to IGT’s success.

The feedback has been very positive, the group appears to be more accountable for their actions, and victim loop reactions are less frequent.  Thank you!

Stewart Thoeni
Mechanical, HW Engineering Director

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly focused and relevant management training course that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO

Edify

I’ve partnered with LSA Global at two companies now, and I consider them a valuable and trusted partner. They always design and deliver just the right solution and have wonderful facilitators that match your company’s unique culture and style of management. I would highly recommend LSA for high quality learning solutions with true experts who have your best interests at heart.

Maya Paul
HR Director

I continue to be impressed by the depth and breadth of LSA’s expertise in leadership development, and management development.

What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help leaders attract, engage, develop and retain top talent in a practical and results-driven manner.

Thank you LSA!

Tracy Esposito
Director, HR Business Partner

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

We recently partnered with LSA Global to offer our Supervisors and Managers a customized and experiential management training program.

Everyone said it was by far the best management training program they had ever attended.

The content was rich and highly interactive, and the case studies were highly relevant to our unique situation.

Each participant walked away much better equipped to lead their teams.  Thank you LSA!

Jeff Coon
Director of Human Resources

LSA understands our business, has deep expertise in content areas, and customizes their approach to deliver great results.

The facilitator was extremely knowledgeable about working virtually across cultures. The passion, practices, and tools made the session interesting, fun, and highly valuable.

I highly recommend LSA Global to any company that has global partners or offices.

Glenn McGillivray
Human Resources Business Partner

Intuit

LSA helped change our entire culture around meetings, making them more effective and efficient, thus enabling our leaders, managers, and teams to concentrate on driving more business.

Thank you!

Terry Wassman
VP of Human Resources

We have worked with LSA Global for our learning and development needs and have always had great success.

They helped us recently with targeted and customized Management Training Workshops to fit our unique situation, and they were fantastic.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone that is attempting to help take their leadership and management talent to the next level.

Mary Johnston
HR Manager, BU Radiology Informatics

What a refreshing change from the half-baked psycho-babble you normally get from training and consulting organizations. LSA gives you the practical and results-oriented assistance you need to define and reach your goals.

Their leadership, management, and sales expertise has been invaluable.  They think strategically and provide a results driven plan – not just a temporary fix.

They are great to work with, and even more importantly, they “get it!”

David Fiano
Director of Merchandising

LSA has become the gold standard for team building and management training programs at Genomic Health!

I have not found companies that come close to their level of customization, impact, expertise, and experience.

Emily Couey
Director of Human Resources

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a management development solution to help drive performance. They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing a leadership approach that fits our culture, and delivering a first class solution with the support systems necessary to make a real difference.

I recommend LSA Global to anyone looking for real results.

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

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