Building your first team
Recruiting, onboarding and building a network.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Aspiring Managers
- Price
- £39
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
A bad hire costs far longer than it took to make, especially in a small team. This module helps you hire deliberately, defining the role and the evidence you need before you advertise, and interviewing for evidence over charm and potential over polish. It then uses Talya Bauer's Four C's to show why induction is a day but onboarding is a ninety day process that the line manager owns. For a manager, a professional network is part of the job, not a personal nicety. Drawing on Herminia Ibarra's research, this module explains outsight before insight, turns her three shifts into steps for a normal working week, and tackles the authenticity paradox for people who do not enjoy networking. The central message is that confidence follows the behaviour, so you can act your way into a broader role.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Define a role and the evidence you will look for before interviewing, and ask questions that test for potential, culture add and evidence.
- Explain Bauer's Four C's of onboarding and identify which elements an organisational induction usually leaves out.
- Plan a ninety day onboarding for a new starter, including a genuine day ninety check-in.
- Explain Ibarra's idea of outsight before insight and why confidence tends to follow new behaviour.
- Plan practical steps for each of Ibarra's three shifts: redefining your job, diversifying your network and becoming more playful.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 08Building Your First Team: Recruiting and OnboardingA bad hire costs far longer than it took to make, especially in a small team. This module helps you hire deliberately, defining the role and the evidence you need before you advertise, and interviewing for evidence over charm and potential over polish. It then uses Talya Bauer's Four C's to show why induction is a day but onboarding is a ninety day process that the line manager owns.37 min
- 09Growing Your Professional Network: and ReputationFor a manager, a professional network is part of the job, not a personal nicety. Drawing on Herminia Ibarra's research, this module explains outsight before insight, turns her three shifts into steps for a normal working week, and tackles the authenticity paradox for people who do not enjoy networking. The central message is that confidence follows the behaviour, so you can act your way into a broader role.38 min
Keep going.
Part of the Aspiring Managers topic, also sold whole as Ready to lead others.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Your team, your voice, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Ready to lead others, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Starting from scratch
Other Bitesize in the Aspiring Managers topic
- From doing to leadingWhat changes when you become a manager30 minutes£39
- Your first ninety daysNew manager transition, identity and confidence1 hour 15 minutes£39
- The first conversationsDelegation and feedback for new managers1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Finding your voiceCommunication skills for new managers1 hour 15 minutes£39
