Developing as a Manager of Managers—Webinar & Professional Development Program
Are You?
- In line for a promotion to lead a team that includes managers and supervisors?
- Recently promoted and now responsible for managers on your team?
- An experienced manager of managers looking for ideas and approaches to strengthen your performance?
- An executive responsible or the development of senior managers and emerging leaders on your team?
The transition from managing front-line employees to managing managers is one of the most challenging steps in your career. Gone are the many minute-to-minute operating concerns that dominated your days as a front-line manager.
Instead, this daily work is replaced with a whole new set of challenges, including:
- Coaching and developing managers
- Driving the right results on a larger scale
- Translating senior management goals and objectives into action plans and scorecards
- Coping with rapid changes and shifting priorities passed down your firm’s executives and dictated by difficult market conditions
- Dealing with the challenges of budgeting and longer-range planning
- Vying for resources and leadership on key projects
- Growing your own power and influence
- Working with peers on organization-wide initiatives
- Guiding the leadership and talent development activities of your team
- Dealing with high-stakes decisions where the answers are more gray than black or white
- Navigating an increasingly competitive political environment
- Communicating with executives
- Continuing your own development
- Preparing for the next career-step
If those challenges aren’t difficult enough, consider that your boss and other senior managers are looking at you for signs that you are senior management potential.
Yes, your future is on the line!
Only the Dedicated and Motivated Thrive!
Welcome to the most unenviable role in the organization—the senior middle manager—accountable for everything but still needing to garner the authority for decisions on a case-by-case basis.
You are part coach, part therapist, part salesperson, part negotiator, and those are typically the hats you wear by noon on Monday.
It’s a tough job, filled with landmines for you, your team and your boss. And that’s where I come in.
Help Wanted! Coaching and Mentoring for Developing as a Manager of Managers:
Having successfully navigated the rise to senior management in the software industry and now a prominent coach and mentor for leaders from the front-line to the executive suite, I understand what it takes to succeed. And I share that knowledge with you in this program.
The Program
In my Developing as a Manager of Managers program, I work with you during a series of 5 webinars over 10 weeks to teach you the approaches and tools necessary to survive and thrive in your role.
Topics of focus include:
- What it takes to succeed as a manager of managers
- Driving great results at scale
- Coaching and developing managers on your team
- Strengthening as a decision-maker for complex issues
- Directing your larger organization from vision through execution
- Engaging effectively with executives
- Navigating organizational politics at a higher level
- Becoming a leader of peers and growing your influence
- Developing yourself as a leader and senior manager
The Program Includes:
- 5 information-packed webinars (recorded for later referencing) along with suggestions on putting the ideas to work.
- All slides, summary notes and related worksheets used on the webinars.
- E-mail access to me for questions.
- Evergreen e-mail access to me following the program.
- One 60-minute mentoring session via Skype or phone.
- A bi-weekly e-newsletter or podcast with tips and approaches specifically for managers of managers.
- Copies of my books Leadership Caffeine and Practical Lessons in Leadership.
Who Should Consider This Program?
- This 10-week intensive management training is ideal for:
- Experienced first-time managers in-line for a promotion to a role where they will be responsible for supervisors and managers on their team.
- Any manager of managers looking for ideas and approaches to strengthen performance.
- Any manager or senior manager interested in advancing in his/her career.
High Value, Reasonable Investment:
I’ve delivered this content in live workshops or coaching engagements with Software Development Managers, Engineering Managers, Customer Services Managers, Senior Product/Project Managers, Regional Sales Managers and many others at price points no less than five figures.
For this webinar series, I am offering the 10-week program at $395 for ideas and approaches you would spend thousands for in different settings.
I love engaging and teaching using distance technologies; it makes it easy to deliver high-quality, affordable professional development content in near real-time. And yes, a good number of my group clients in these programs go on to become coaching clients, so this makes good business sense for me to help and impress the heck out of you and your boss.
What People Are Saying:
“I must also tell you that I get so inspired to go out and conquer what the world has to throw at me after working with you. Your willingness to share your ideas certainly has shown me why you have been successful in life.”
–Ken P.
“As I am sure you have heard countless times as a mentor and teacher your guidance today touched me and molded me in ways deeper than you’ll ever know or I am able to put into words”
–J.D.
“Art uses his ample experience as an executive and a coach to bring the issues to life and offer ideas I can use immediately.”
–Barb H.
