Here you’ll find content you can use to help high-potential individual contributors prepare to step into their first team lead or management role, increasing the odds they’ll succeed once promoted.
Our First 90 Days as a Manager Microcourse and Microlearning Resources
This topic will give soon-to-be managers a dose of encouragement, as well as a realistic view of the challenges that lie ahead. Articles include:
- Key lessons for new managers. If your high-potential individual contributors take these six basics to heart, they’ll be off to a good start.
- Make the mental leap to manager. No doubt about it: The career transition from individual contributor to manager is tough. Are your high-potential individual contributors ready for the hardest part — changing their mindset?
- 10 common mistakes new managers make. Your high-potential employees will be ahead of the curve if they know to look out for these mistakes before they start managing.
- A friend is now a direct report. Arm your high-potential employees with these confidence-building tips so they can handle this common problem with grace and professionalism.
- My team resents my promotion. Here’s another doozy of a problem that people on the cusp of management may appreciate thinking through in advance.
(external) Rands In Repose: A disclosure
Engineer-turned-manager Michael Lopp shares his story of entering management, pointing out some key pitfalls in a direct, funny narrative that may especially resonate with your organization’s engineers.
5 things new managers don’t know they don’t know
This article will help dismiss any faulty assumptions your high-potential individual contributors may have about managing others.
7 habits of highly ineffective bosses
This tongue-in-cheek piece may inspire your soon-to-be managers to hold themselves to higher standards.
Our New manager diary is a fictionalized series that uses storytelling to dramatize key concepts around management. For example, the inaugural post in the series describes first-day jitters and a case of the Spotlight Effect.
How to run 1-on-1s with direct reports
This article will give your high-potential individual contributors a leg up on a task crucial to their success as managers.
Delegation rarely comes easy to individual contributors accustomed to doing things themselves, but they absolutely must master it in order to excel as managers. It’s never too soon to start learning how.
Summary of 9 productivity habits
High-potential individual contributors who struggle to manage their time will only struggle more once they’re promoted.
Overachievers are often at risk of burning out. These simple but effective tips will help keep your high-potential employees at their best.
(external) Cara Alter: Credibility derailers
In this short but helpful video, author Cara Alter covers four of the most common vocal and body-language tics that high-potential individual contributors can work on to enhance their leadership presence.
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