Great Managers Aren’t Born, They’re Trained.

DISCOVER OUR MANAGER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Leadership is more than just an appointed position. It must be a complete way of doing business and communicating with others. Many people think if they’re not born with management skills, they’re out of luck. This simply isn’t true.

Our program employ a proven combination of assessments, training, coaching, and on-the-job action to provide managers at all levels with the foundation for personalized leadership development. Your employees have the potential to become leaders from any level. They just need the development tools to help them get there.

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The 8 Manager Skills

According to Gallup, 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined soley by the manager, yet managers today are responsible for more than engaging their team.

Leading a team is a distinctly different skillset than those relied upon by individual contributors, and those skills must be learned if organizations want to reap the rewards of a highly engaged workforce.

Stewart Leadership has identified eight core skills managers must master to fully transition from being a strong individual contributor to taking their place as a leader within your organization.

Manager Mindset

• Increasing self-awareness and building expectations of managerial success
• Navigating the identity shift from individual contributor to manager
• Aligning values, work life, energy, critical thinking, and well being

Communication

• Conducting effective 1:1 meetings with team members
• Managing inbox and responsiveness
• Leading group meetings
• Information sharing up, down, and sideways


Prioritizing

• Knowing when to use consensus vs. other decision approaches
• Delegating and prioritizing effectively with others
• Identifying when and how to display managerial courage

Accountability

• Creating an environment of self-accountability
• Providing clear performance expectations and goals
• Following up in helpful and inspiring ways
• Managing performance challenges.

Feedback

• Providing clear positive and constructive feedback through formal and informal coaching
• Managing conflict and uncomfortable situations
• Managing reactions and building emotional intelligence

Engaging

• Selecting and building a strong team
• Creating an engaging and inclusive environment
• Developing and growing team members
• Leading career conversations

Influence

• Developing leadership presence and credibility within the organization
• Identifying ways to influence others
• Understanding the unofficial organization with political savvy

Navigating Change

• Being open to change, new ideas, and approaches
• Recognizing how to help others navigate through change
• How to create and support a continuous improvement approach

Key Advantages of Investing Manager Development

Achieve Performance & Results

  • Moving key performance metrics
  • Making the results predictable

Increase Engagement & Retention

  • 83% of executives & 84% of employees rank engaged employees as the top factor
  • Employees with professional development have 34% higher retention rates

Develop Skills & Career Opportunities

  • Well-developed managers are 11x more likely build future strategically competitive talent
  • 83% of all organizations have skill gaps in critically needed areas

Create A Change Ready Workforce

  • Only 23% of managers have the capacity to lead through today’s disruptions
  • 86% of organizations with manager development programs can rapidly adapt to disruptions

Demonstrate Commitment To Learning

  • 60% of managers would choose a job with strong professional development over one with pay raises
  • 29% ROI within only 3 months of manager development training

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Great Managers Aren’t Born, They’re Trained. DISCOVER OUR MANAGER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Leadership is more than just an appointed position. It must be a complete way of doing business and communicating…

WFSI is working with Stewart Leadership’s “Lead Now” Program.