From the founder: New Manager

Role tracks An introduction by Dr Alten du Plessis, founder of WorkSmart4Life.

The New Manager track is for the first years of leading people, when the growth of others becomes part of your own work.

It helps you develop your team through coaching conversations, read the emotions in the room and your own, and handle disagreement well.

Manager as Coach teaches the coaching conversation itself, from The Three Modes, knowing when to coach, mentor or manage, through One Conversation Structure, Listening and Feedback That Lands to The Hard Conversations and Coaching as Culture. The Captain and the Compass turns emotional intelligence into skills you practise: you take a private check-in, keep an emotion logbook, learn that emotions are data about your needs and values, and finish with My Emotional Intelligence Plan. Disagree Well follows the order a conflict has to be handled: Steady First, See It Clearly, Say It Well, then Repair and Grow. With the track comes the InspireWell4Life edition You Be A Great Coach Too, a card deck and ebook of quotes in your name, built block by block on a classic model of success.

All three courses sit under Connect, the move about teams, leading and conversation. Several tools in Manager as Coach, such as The One-to-One and How Safe Is My Team?, are also among the leader's tools in Work Well Together. To start, choose Buy this track: the three courses open together in one checkout, each is yours for a year on FlourishIQ, and your personalised edition arrives by email. I suggest you begin with Manager as Coach and its opening module, The Three Modes.

Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life

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