Management Foundations
Designed for both new and experienced managers, these sessions go beyond theory to address the practical tensions managers face every day. These peer learning topics equip managers with the core skills they need to lead effectively in real-world conditions—delegating clearly, navigating pressure, giving feedback, supporting team development, and making sound decisions under uncertainty.
Participants leave better prepared to align priorities, motivate others, and foster accountability—building the kind of steady, thoughtful leadership that organizations rely on.
Topics
- A Leadership of Health and Wellness
- Accountability: It's a Tricky World
- Analyzing Employee Performance
- Conversational Leadership
- Dealing with Delegation
- Dealing with the Pressures of Managing
- Decision Making: It's Not What You Think
- Driving Change as a Middle Manager
- FeedFORWARD Instead of Feedback
- Five Ideas about Teamwork
- High Performing Teams
- Hiring: Mastering the Most Important Decision
- I.T. Does Have an Off Button
- Introducing Strategy through Robin Hood
- KPIs AND OKRs: Balancing the Essential and the Impossible
- Leadership: The Essentials
- Leading with Humility
- Management Competency Raising
- Management Styles: Art, Craft, Science
- Managing Conflict in Teams
- Managing on the Edges
- Managing on the Planes of Information, People, and Action
- Managing on Tightropes: The Inescapable Conundrums of Managing
- Navigating Uncertainty: Three Drivers of Managerial Agility
- Nurturing a Team to High Performance
- Personal Branding: Navigating Identity, Integrity, and Impact
- Political Games in Organizations
- Reflection
- Rethinking Structure: Chains, Hubs, Webs, and Sets
- Seeing Beyond Belief: Observation Skills for Managers
- Simply Managing: From Reflection to Action
- Some Surprising Things about Collaboration
- SWOT for Strategy
- Talent Management
- The Art of Helping
- The Key to the Agile Organization: Managing Paradox
- The Play of Analysis
- The Players of Cultural Change
- The Rewards of Recognition
- Understanding Stakeholders
- Understanding Your Organizational Culture
- Virtual Teams: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Visionary Management
- Women Rising: Breaking the Habits That Hold You Back
- Working Style Differences and Team Problem Solving