Seminar for New Managers: Leading People--Online
A Powerful Learning Experience for New Managers
Overview
When you are promoted to manager you assume greater responsibility for your team, work unit and organizational results. Your challenges are more complex and your leadership role is recognized as central to meeting them. Today's public sector managers are expected to help their people meet today's complex and rapidly changing needs. This seven-week online program gives you the tools you need through individual assessments, readings, small group activities, discussions and real-world applications. Your seminar group will use a virtual classroom for discussions and interactions, available from any Internet connection. During this seminar you will:
- Develop a strategic view of key drivers of behavior and decision making
- Understand how to manage change and resolve conflict
- Examine a framework for developing other workers
- View your leadership role through Constitutional values and ethics
- Explore solutions for difficult performance issues, including discipline and termination.
How You Will Benefit
- Improve your problem-solving, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Lead by example and become a workplace role model
- Build peer networks across Federal agencies
- Examine and improve your leadership competencies
- Learn to develop and deploy your staff
Who Should Attend
Managers recently promoted to second line supervision, current middle managers seeking to update their skills and knowledge and/or managers with large program responsibilities
This is not a basic supervisory skills course but the first level of the management development curriculum.