Boss and facilitator, structuring and freeing: today's manager holds these paradoxes without falling apart.
Discover the managerial club sandwich and understand the paradoxes and challenges every manager faces. Learn to navigate all these (contradictory?) missions with agility and resilience.
15 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- the "managerial club sandwich": every hat a manager wears, broken down
- the 5 management paradoxes and how to navigate them without burning out
- the 7 new challenges that demand agility and resilience
Target audience
Managers looking to acquire the fundamentals of management.
Learning objectives
- The manager's roles have evolved and intensified to the point of becoming an almost impossible mission.
- Grasp the complexity of the manager's role within a company that is itself grappling with complexity.
- Face the 5 management paradoxes that make this role so challenging (and so exciting!)
- Take on the 7 new challenges asked of managers, which demand agility and resilience
Module outline
- Storytelling“The Heroism of Managers”1'17An exploration of how the manager's role has evolved since 1910, and the complex, contradictory challenges they face
- Articles
- Paradoxes in the workplace: analysis and key figures
- The club sandwich of manager responsibilities
- Expert video“The Manager's Paradoxes”4'34Exploring the manager's many hats and the paradoxes they face
- AnchoringQuiz and True/False to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
- Memo cardDownloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
