Your expertise made you a manager: it can also keep you from becoming a real one.
Optimize your time as a manager by balancing the 4 activities of producing, managing, motivating, and innovating. Build your delegation skills and free up time for team leadership and innovation.
15 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- the manager's 4 activities — producing, managing, motivating, innovating — and how you actually split your time
- the shift from “doing” to “getting things done” without losing quality
- an exercise for reinvesting your time where it creates the most value
Target audience
Managers looking to acquire the fundamentals of management.
Learning objectives
- Move from the role of expert to the role of manager
- Move from “doing” to “getting things done,” from “acting” to “getting others to act”
- Examine how you split your time across the 4 main managerial activities: producing, managing, motivating, and innovating
- Discern which activities to invest more time in and/or step back from
Module outline
- Storytelling“From Expert to Manager”1'39The story of Éric, an e-learning expert turned Head of Training, facing the challenges of team management
- Articles
- The risks of micromanagement and the importance of fostering autonomy
- Visualizing the change: a chart on how managerial time is split
- Expert video“Delegating: From Doing to Getting Done”3'15The manager's 4 purposes (producing, managing, motivating, innovating) and why delegating matters for focusing on team leadership and innovation
- AnchoringQuiz and True/False questions 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
