Move from doing the work to leading people: get started well, build feedback and coaching habits, then widen your leadership.
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Get oriented in the first months of a new role and learn the fundamentals of managing people.
Michael Watkins offers a structured approach for leaders starting a new role, focusing on learning quickly, securing early wins and building the right relationships. It covers joining a new organisation as well as promotion from within. Helpful for new managers and executives.
A practical handbook for people stepping into management for the first time, covering the shift from doing the work to leading others, along with everyday tasks such as delegating, motivating and handling difficult situations. Suited to newly promoted supervisors and team leaders.
Practise honest feedback and coaching, two core management habits.
Kim Scott's central idea is that managers do their best work when they care personally about people while also challenging them directly. She shows how to give and receive honest feedback without being cruel or evasive. Written with managers and team leaders in mind.
A compact guide to coaching in everyday management. Michael Bungay Stanier offers seven questions that help leaders stay curious, give less advice and let colleagues find their own answers. Handy for busy managers who want to coach without lengthy, formal sessions.
Courses for stepping up into your first management role.
Browse First-time manager coursesCourses on coaching your team and giving useful feedback.
Browse Coaching & feedback coursesWiden your view of leadership, from drawing out your team’s capability to building trust and courage.
Liz Wiseman contrasts leaders who amplify the intelligence and capability of the people around them with those who unintentionally drain it, drawing on her research. She describes practical habits for becoming the former. Suited to managers who want to get more from their teams.
Brené Brown draws on her research into courage and vulnerability to argue that effective leadership depends on brave conversations, clear values and trust within teams. It offers practical guidance on difficult feedback and emotion at work. For leaders at any level who want more open cultures.
Patrick Lencioni uses a business fable to describe five obstacles that stop teams working well together: lack of trust, fear of conflict, weak commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results. A practical model for team leaders who want to diagnose and address team problems.
Pick one idea and use it in a real conversation this week, then build the skill with a course.
Courses on leading people: communication, motivation and building trust.
Browse Leadership skills coursesCourses on self-awareness, empathy and working well with others.
This week: Choose one leadership idea and use it in a real conversation, feedback moment or team ritual this week.
