Finding your feet
New manager transition, identity and first conversations.
Three hours on stepping into management on purpose: what changes, the first ninety days, building your identity and your first delegation and feedback conversations.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Aspiring Managers
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
New and aspiring managers in their first months in the role
Overview
Becoming a manager is a change of job, not a bigger version of the old one, and the habits formed in the first months are hard to reset later. Finding your feet supports new and aspiring managers through that transition. It draws on Katz's three skill model and Julie Zhuo's first year in management, then Michael Watkins' transition framework for diagnosing an inherited team. From there it turns to identity: shaping a management brand on purpose and treating imposter syndrome as common rather than personal. It closes with the first real conversations, delegation and feedback using Situation, Behaviour, Impact, and the everyday basics of meetings and one to ones.
Aims
This programme aims to help new and aspiring managers in public service step into the role deliberately rather than by instinct, building the identity, confidence and early habits that earn credibility before a track record exists, and the courage to hold the conversations that new managers most often avoid.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain why becoming a manager is a change of job, using Katz's skill model and Watkins' framework to diagnose what your inherited team needs.
- Plan and hold early delegation and feedback conversations, including with former peers, using outcome-based delegation and Situation, Behaviour, Impact.
- Build the visible habits of a credible first year, from your management brand and first team meeting to one to ones and protected time.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain why becoming a manager is a change of job, and name the three things that change on day one.
- Use Katz's three skill model to judge where your own development effort should go as a first line manager.
- Diagnose whether the team you have inherited needs turning around, realigning or sustaining, and choose an early approach to match.
- Describe your current management brand in observable behaviours and choose one visible change to build the brand you want.
- Delegate work by describing the outcome, matching it to the person's readiness, and judging the result against the outcome rather than your own method.
- Run a first team meeting that listens more than it tells, with clear preparation before and visible follow up after.
Built from 3 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01From doing to leadingWhat changes when you become a managerBitesize1 module
- 02Your first ninety daysNew manager transition, identity and confidenceBitesize2 modules
- 03The first conversationsDelegation and feedback for new managersBitesize2 modules
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 hereFocus, 3 hours, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Ready to lead others, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
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: Stepping up