Getting off to a good start as a manager
Audience: New managers and recently appointed managers.
Support the shift from individual expertise to responsibility for a team. This learning path helps new managers build their relationship with their team members, adjust the support they give, and adapt their style as each person progresses. It then offers practical guidance for delegating and staying connected day to day.
Download the learning path overview (PDF)Key facts
- Modules
- 6 modules in a recommended order
- Duration
- ~2 h as Adaptive modules ~1 h as training videos
- Formats
- Adaptive module or training video
- Suggested pace
- one module per week
The six modules, in the recommended order
Step 1
Promoted for your expertise: Stop doing it all yourself
Make the shift from expertise to management: divide your time across your new activities and agree, from day one, on what you will stop taking on.
Step 2
Manager and team member: Meet each other halfway
Build a relationship with each team member where both sides meet halfway: expectations set from the start, help asked for, disagreements voiced.
Step 3
Situational leadership: Match your style to each task
Adapt your support to each team member and each task, with a diagnosis made together rather than a label stuck on the person.
Step 4
Situational leadership in practice: Traps and transitions
Go deeper into the previous step: avoid the pitfalls of diagnosis, change styles smoothly, and take hybrid work and AI into account.
Step 5
Delegating for real: Appelo’s seven levels
Delegate precisely: choose the right level for each decision, from “I decide” to “you decide”, and align the team on who decides what.
Step 6
One-on-ones in hybrid teams: Stay close to every team member
Set up a regular one-on-one, never cancelled, to stay connected with each team member, including at a distance.
The composition of this learning path can be adapted to your audiences, your priorities, and the training already in place.
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