Transitioning from an individual contributor to a leadership role requires a shift in mindset, responsibilities, and ways of working.
First-Time Manager Training provides a structured approach to leadership transition, supporting new leaders and first-time managers in understanding their role, developing core management skills, and building effective teams.
It focuses on practical strategies that enable a confident and effective start in leadership for new managers.
Participants will learn how to:
Outcome Understanding
Best suited to creating shared understanding.
Outcome Application
Best suited to capability building.
Outcome Ability to teach
Best suited to internal capability and scaling.
Prices shown in GBP for delivery in the UK and Ireland. In-person programme prices are indicative and vary with cohort size, location and language of delivery.
Format Self-paced
For professionals who want to learn on their own schedule.
Format Self-paced + live virtual
For teams that need to learn together and apply it at work, not just complete a course.
Everything in Individuals, and:
Format Enterprise rollout
For organisations rolling out learning across sites, countries and business units.
Everything in Teams, and:
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Talk to an adviserFirst-time manager training prepares people moving from individual contributor to team leader for the responsibilities of managing others. LIA's First-Time Manager Training covers the shift from doing the work to leading it: adopting a team-focused mindset, understanding what the role requires, delegating and communicating clearly, making decisions, and supporting team performance and development from the first weeks in the job.
Moving into management is one of the hardest transitions in a career, and many new managers receive little or no formal preparation. Without it, they tend to keep doing the work themselves, avoid difficult conversations or delegate poorly, which affects both their own wellbeing and their team's results. Early training gives new managers a confident start and reduces the cost of getting the transition wrong.
Yes, through LIA's Train the Trainer accreditation. It includes the full programme content and methodology, the facilitator guide and materials, supervised practice with coaching, an assessment of facilitation competence and a licence to deliver the programme internally.
Yes. London Intercultural Academy (LIA) is a recognised CPD provider (CPD Provider Number 781813), and every participant receives a CPD certificate on completion.
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