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First-Time Manager track

Move from doing the work to leading people: get started well, build feedback and coaching habits, then widen your leadership.

4 steps7 books4 course shelvesFor new managers and team leads

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Start here

Get oriented in the first months of a new role and learn the fundamentals of managing people.

Build the skills

Practise honest feedback and coaching, two core management habits.

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Kim Scott's central idea is that managers do their best work when they care personally about people while also challenging them directly. She shows how to give and receive honest feedback without being cruel or evasive. Written with managers and team leaders in mind.

Go deeper

Widen your view of leadership, from drawing out your team’s capability to building trust and courage.

Multipliers

Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman contrasts leaders who amplify the intelligence and capability of the people around them with those who unintentionally drain it, drawing on her research. She describes practical habits for becoming the former. Suited to managers who want to get more from their teams.

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown

Brené Brown draws on her research into courage and vulnerability to argue that effective leadership depends on brave conversations, clear values and trust within teams. It offers practical guidance on difficult feedback and emotion at work. For leaders at any level who want more open cultures.

Put it to work

Pick one idea and use it in a real conversation this week, then build the skill with a course.

This week: Choose one leadership idea and use it in a real conversation, feedback moment or team ritual this week.