Congratulations, You’ve Been Promoted, Now What?
For NEW and EXPERIENCED Managers
How Relationships and Responsibilities Change with Promotion
You’ve earned your promotion through talent and hard work—but new roles bring new challenges. Responsibilities shift, expectations rise, and sometimes the people who once worked beside you now report to you. Adjusting to these changes takes more than technical skill. This workshop is designed to help new managers navigate that transition with confidence.
This half or full-day workshop focuses on these essential areas:
Seven Key Priorities for New Managers
Most newly promoted leaders must quickly master a handful of critical concepts. We’ll break down the seven most important areas to focus on early and discuss practical ways to address each.
Know Yourself to Lead Others
During the workshop, participants complete a personality assessment that assesses their management style and personality traits. Understanding your traits, strengths, and tendencies is the foundation of strong leadership. We’ll also explore generational differences—an area that often creates friction—and learn strategies to build understanding across age groups.
Communicating Clearly
Effective communication is both vital and challenging. With teams made up of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets, ensuring your message is understood can be difficult—and costly if done poorly. We’ll examine the communication cycle, identify common barriers, and share techniques to ensure your communication is clear, consistent, and successful.
We wrap up by exploring the difference between managing and leading. A title can make someone a manager, but leadership is earned. What defines a leader? How do we develop leadership in ourselves and others?
“Congratulations, You’ve Been Promoted. Now What?” prepares you to succeed not just as a manager, but as a true leader.
“When you hear Marlin speak, you fully realize that there is nothing artificial about him.”
A Workshop for New and Experienced Managers
Both the workplace and the workforce have changed. It seems that every industry is currently facing employee shortages, and recent retirements and changes in how we work brought on by COVID have only exacerbated the problems. Because of this, young, inexperienced people are being moved into supervisory positions without any management training.
While this program was initially created to instruct first-time managers about how to handle the challenges created by a promotion and that first management position, it quickly became obvious that any manager at any level could use these same strategies, whether it is their first management job or they were recently promoted or hope to be, promoted to CEO.
Topics covered (half-day) include:
The seven key components of managing after promotion:
Addressing the relationship shift (relationship dynamics)
Getting Smart(er)
Finding a mentor
Changing our focus
Listening
Modeling behavior
Managing up
Personality awareness.
Basics of communication and tips for more effective communication.
Dealing with generational differences in communication and expectations.
Full-day adds: (The full-day workshop is titled Management Boot Camp)
Employing active listening skills.
Five keys of effective decision-making
Being an “active” manager
Tips for employee reviews
Dealing with discipline
Nine traits of a great leader
Manager vs. Leader
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