Redesigning the Manager Role for the Modern Workplace
45mAdvanced2023-11-09
Authors
Erica Keswin
Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and Workplace Strategist
Course details
In this timely course for senior leaders, bestselling author, speaker, and business strategist Erica Keswin guides you through practical, proven, effective ways to elevate and support managers—the lifeblood of their organizations. Gain insights through case studies from companies who do this and have seen their organizations thrive. Learn how to support the manager role with intention, demonstrate care for your managers, facilitate manager community-building, connect manager recognition to company values, and more.
Skills covered
Executive LeadershipManagement SkillsLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Why organizations should invest in managers now
Elevate and Support the Manager Role
- The manager role as a destination
- Assess your management model
- Create a cohesive management model
- Align your management model with organizational values
- Formalize manager training
- Elevate the manager role
Demonstrate Care for Your Managers
- Demonstrate care for your managers
- Be accessible to your managers
- Be empathetic and vulnerable when communicating with managers
- Model well-being as a senior leader
Facilitate Community Building for Your Managers
- Facilitate community-building for your managers
- Create a peer-to-peer manager connection
- Offer multiple ways for managers to connect
- Provide visible and intentional support for managers
Recognize and Thank Your Managers
- Recognize and thank your managers
- Connect recognition to company values
- Personalize manager recognition
- Mix up your manager recognition
Conclusion
- Designing the modern manager role