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Program Outline
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Be a Great People Manager
Motivating Your Team
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Be a Great People Manager
Tailoring Management Style
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Improve Team Effectiveness
Promoting Psychological Safety
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Be a Great People Manager
Delegating to Your Team
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Be a Great People Manager
Instilling Work Ownership
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Improve Team Effectiveness
Giving Impactful Feedback
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Be a Great People Manager
Holding Meaningful 1-1s
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Manage High Performance
Tackling Underperformance
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Be a Great People Manager
Motivating Your Team
Get your team to feel engaged by tapping into their intrinsic motivators
Why this matters
Teams achieve the best outcomes when people are intrinsically motivated about their work. The leaders thoughtfully elevate their team's drive.
Objective
- Get your team to feel engaged by tapping into their intrinsic motivators
What participants will do together
- Learn the 4 core drivers of intrinsic motivation
- Identify actions you can take to improve motivation and re-energize your team
- Evaluate your own team's sense of motivation and how you might improve
Be a Great People Manager
Tailoring Management Style
Understand your team's level of skill and will, and proactively adjust management style accordingly
Why this matters
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to management. Every employee has a different personality, skills, goals, and motivations. The best managers learn to tailor their management style to fit each team member's needs.
Objective
- Understand your team's level of skill and will, and proactively adjust management style accordingly
What participants will do together
- Learn to adjust management style based on team members' skill and will
- Learn 4 different management styles and indicators of when you should use each
- Decide which management style to use in different scenarios
Improve Team Effectiveness
Promoting Psychological Safety
Foster a team environment where everyone feels comfortable speaking freely and taking risks
Why this matters
Psychological safety is one of the most important factors that raise team performance. The best teams take intentional measures to help everyone bring their best self.
Objective
- Foster a team environment where everyone feels comfortable speaking freely and taking risks
What participants will do together
- Review 5 levers of psychological safety
- Apply the levers to a challenging workplace scenario
- Think through how to improve psychological safety on your own team
Be a Great People Manager
Delegating to Your Team
Be thoughtful about what to delegate and how
Why this matters
Effective delegation is one of the most critical ways to build leverage and free up time for more high-value activities.
Objective
- Be thoughtful about what to delegate and how
What participants will do together
- Reflect on the importance of good delegation
- Analyze the common pitfalls of delegation
- Practice what to delegate and how to delegate effectively
Be a Great People Manager
Instilling Work Ownership
Give your team the motivation and structure to perform well
Why this matters
To help your teams do their best work, you want to help them both see the purpose of their work and feel they have the ownership to drive it and make it their own.
Objective
- Give your team the motivation and structure to perform well
What participants will do together
- Understand what makes it hard to instill work ownership
Improve Team Effectiveness
Giving Impactful Feedback
Offer constructive feedback like a caring, thoughtful coach
Why this matters
Feedback is essential for improving how we work together. The best managers give constructive feedback in a way that empowers their teams to take ownership of improvements.
Objective
- Offer constructive feedback like a caring, thoughtful coach
What participants will do together
- Analyze feedback conversations for their strengths and weaknesses
- Identify 5 aspects of effective feedback conversations from the CEDAR model
- Apply the CEDAR model to one workplace scenario
Be a Great People Manager
Holding Meaningful 1-1s
Level up your 1-1s to better support your team members and deepen connections
Why this matters
1-1s shouldn't just be about status updates or an exchange of pleasantries. When done well, 1-1 meetings are a powerful tool for leaders to unlock their team’s potential.
Objective
- Level up your 1-1s to better support your team members and deepen connections
What participants will do together
- Evaluate one manager's 1-1
- Learn the 4 Cs of effective 1-1s
- Practice applying each during your 1-1s
Manage High Performance
Tackling Underperformance
Determine the right actions to solve low employee performance
Why this matters
It can feel frustrating and stressful if you're faced with an underperforming team member. You want to be strategic and tactful to turn the situation around.
Objective
- Determine the right actions to solve low employee performance
What participants will do together
- Learn a framework to diagnose root causes of a team member's underperformance
- Identify symptoms of a few common root causes of underperformance
- Brainstorm strategies for helping team members boost performance across these root causes
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