First Time Manager

For first-time managers, making the transition and learning how to lead well takes time, patience, and practice. New managers might feel overwhelmed but it all depends on how you approach it. Adopt a growth mindset and build a rapport with your team. Look for some quick wins and master the art of managing up!

So, what does it mean to be in charge? For an individual contributor, playing the role of a manager for the first time is a formidable experience. The transition, while exciting to begin with, is laid with risks, challenges, failure, strained relationships, and a growing awareness that this is nothing like the leadership experience that one thought it would be. An individual contributor’s success depends on personal commitment and expertise. For a new manager, these success factors witness a tectonic shift. Managers are required to drive the organizational agenda through others. And this means that a manager’s performance is largely authored by their direct reports.

New managers are nudged to make psychological adjustments at multiple levels – cognitive, behavioral, and emotional levels. Strengthscape’s First Time Program prepares incumbents to make this transition, an uninhibited and structured experience as they form their leadership paradigm; that would probably stay with them for a lifetime. New managers are required to understand human psychology; in specific motivation, stress, fears, and behavioral preferences to be able to manage people and drive business outcomes.

Strengthscape’s First Time Manager program addresses multiple myths especially those related to power & authority; influence & motivation; and business priorities and results.