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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 matter?

Teams achieve the best outcomes when people are intrinsically motivated about their work. The leaders thoughtfully elevate their team's drive.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

Effective delegation is one of the most critical ways to build leverage and free up time for more high-value activities.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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 matter?

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications

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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