From Colleague to Leader: What Great New Manager Training Really Takes
From Colleague to Leader: What Is Required Today for Great New Manager Training When a top individual contributor earns a promotion, their success no longer depends on personal output — it depends on how well they lead others. The transition from colleague to leader...
4 Steps to Better Influence Your Team as a Manager
How to Better Influence Your Team as a Manager At its core, leading and managing a team at work is about influence. To better influence your team as a manager means building strong and trusting relationships to set the foundation for empathy, constructive debate,...
3 Keys to Making Better Decisions at Work
Making Better Decisions in General We all make multiple decisions every day. Some decisions, like buying a new house, are complex and require careful consideration. While other decisions like what to wear can affect our self-esteem and confidence, they are relatively...
3 Tips to Be a Better Manager
Remote Work Has Created the Need for all of Us to Be a Better Manager Our organizational culture assessment data tells us that relationships between employees and their bosses are getting worse. While an initial uptick in employee/manager relationships occurred at the...
Top Team Decision Making Biases to Overcome
Team Decision Making Biases We know from people manager assessment center data that managers play a critical role in team decision making biases. They need to help employees make the right decisions in the right way at the right speed. Team leaders need to make sure...
How To Replace a Bad Boss
Do You Need to Replace a Bad Boss? Though becoming the new leader of a team is exciting, it can be all too common to learn that the previous team leader was a “bad” boss. This could be for a variety of reasons. They could have been incompetent, highly political at...
How to Navigate Different Management Roles to Succeed
Different Management Roles Our new manager training programs typically teach managers the basics that were introduced decades ago: how to plan, organize, coordinate, and control as a manager. But our people manager assessment center finds that managers tend to spend...
