Leading yourself first
Self-awareness, personal effectiveness and managing upward.
Two and a half hours on leading yourself first: shedding habits that hold you back, building self-awareness, closing the say-do gap and managing upward and sideways.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- High Performing Managers
- Price
- £69
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, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers stepping up into bigger roles
Overview
The habits that earned a promotion are often the ones that hold a manager back. This programme starts with Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There and the four disciplines of excellent managers, then builds self-awareness as a continuing practice through Honey and Mumford, the Conscious Competence model and the Johari Window. It draws on Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive and on Charan and Bossidy's Execution to close the say-do gap, and ends with managing upward and sideways using Gabarro and Kotter, reading the political terrain honestly.
Aims
This programme aims to help managers stepping up to work differently, not harder: knowing their own blind spots, spending their time on what matters most, delivering what they commit to, and building effective relationships with their own manager and with peers they cannot instruct.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain why the habits behind early success can limit a manager's impact and identify your own blind spots using the Johari Window.
- Apply Drucker's practices and an execution rhythm to focus your time on the right priorities and close the gap between commitment and delivery.
- Plan how to manage upward and influence sideways, using your manager's priorities, colleagues' currencies and an honest reading of the political terrain.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain why habits that earned your promotion, such as winning too much and adding too much value, can limit you once your impact depends on others.
- Distinguish a good manager from an excellent one using the four disciplines of self awareness, personal effectiveness, managing upward and across, and developing others.
- Use Honey and Mumford's four learning styles to choose development that sticks for you and to coach each team member in the way they learn.
- Apply the Conscious Competence model to slow down and make your own automatic skills explicit enough to pass on.
- Distinguish efficiency from effectiveness and apply Drucker's five practices of effectiveness to your own working week.
- Apply Gabarro and Kotter's four steps to understand your manager's world and build an upward relationship based on mutual dependence.
Built from 2 parts.
2 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01What got you hereSelf-awareness and learning for senior managersBitesize2 modules
- 02Effective at every levelDrucker's effective executive and managing upBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the High Performing Managers topic, also sold whole as Good to great.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Good to great, 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: What takes you further, Managing at your best