Helping great employees become great managers.
Great employees are promoted to be managers everyday, but are never taught how to manage people. Our trainings help managers feel more confident and be better equipped to manage their teams.
4 Steps to Move From Confusion to Clarity
Great employees get promoted to be managers everyday, but most are never taught how to manage people. These four steps help managers feel more confident and be better equipped to manage their teams.
1) See What Others Miss
Managers need to slow down before they rush to solve problems. We empower you to take time to gather the right data, ask the right questions, and identify patterns to help you understand your team and its challenges better.
Managers learn to slow down before they solve, to gather the right data, ask the right questions, and identify the patterns hiding underneath the symptoms their teams are showing.
2) Lead Like It’s On You
All too often lack of accountability is the silver bullet ruining team culture and ability to reach its goals. Unfortunately, we see managers as the first ones pointing fingers. As a manager, it’s critical to build accountability structures and communication practices that eliminate the “pointing fingers,” and make accountability a shared responsibility.
Managers build accountability structures for their teams, the systems, norms, and communication practices that make accountability a shared expectation.
3) The Playbook
Spoiler alert … There's no exact script to being a great manager. However, the best managers have multiple tools they pull from based on the situation, the person, and the urgency needed. This step is where you receive ready to use resources for your personal playbook, tailoring them to take back to your teams immediately.
This is where the education and accountability commitments are turned into something tangible; Ready to use tools that managers take back to their teams immediately.
4) Take it Back Monday
Unfortunately, you can put your all into steps one through three and it amounts to nothing if you don’t take action. What makes this training different is you are equipped to take specific actions immediately that your teams will feel within the first 30 days. Not taking action someday. Today.
This stage moves managers from insight to commitment, from commitment to plan, and from plan to the specific actions their teams will feel within 30 days.
Not someday. Today.
The result? Your team culture thrives, disengagement lessens, and your goals are met.
What You Will Leave With
A clear framework for managing individuals and teams toward collective goals, so you leave aligned on how to move work forward together.
An understanding of how decisions get made, where bottlenecks come from, and how to build decision structures that keep work moving.
The ability to articulate the connections between people management, strategy, buy-in, and execution, so your teams stop working in silos and start moving in the same direction.
The confidence and structure to reach your team’s goals, make clearer decisions, and address your team's real challenges, backed by templates designed for daily use.
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Curious about Interconnected? Interested in being a more confident manager with a team culture that thrives?
Please fill out the form here or email us directly at hello@interconnectedgroup.com to get started. An Interconnected team member will be in touch with you shortly!