Supervisory Skills for First-Line Managers
About this course

Overview

Being good at the work is what gets you promoted, and then it stops being the job. This is for people who have just made that move or are about to. It treats the shift from doing to managing as something learned deliberately rather than absorbed, working through the mindset, the conversations and the weekly routines that let a new supervisor lead credibly from the start.

What you will be able to do

Learning outcomes

  • Delegate work without abdicating accountability
  • Hold structured one-to-one and feedback conversations
  • Set clear expectations and follow through on them
  • Manage former peers with authority and fairness
  • Run a team's daily and weekly operating rhythm
What the course sets out to do

Course objectives

  • Clarify the shift from individual contributor to manager
  • Build core delegation and prioritisation habits
  • Practise everyday performance and feedback conversations
  • Establish team routines that sustain output
  • Develop self-awareness of a personal management style
Course content

Modules

01

From doer to manager

The identity and behaviour shift required when personal delivery is no longer the job.

02

Delegation and prioritisation

Covers how to assign work, match tasks to people, and protect time for the manager role.

03

Everyday performance conversations

Practises setting expectations, giving feedback, and addressing under-performance early.

04

Leading former peers

The authority, boundaries, and relationship reset that follow promotion within a team.

05

Team operating routines

Builds the meetings, check-ins, and rhythms that keep a team aligned and productive.

06

Personal management style

Helps each delegate recognise their default style and adapt it to different people and situations.

Who it is for

Target audience

Newly-promoted supervisors, team leaders, and first-time managers moving into their first people-management role.

Before you start

Prerequisites

Recently promoted to supervisor or team leader, or about to be.

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