Becoming a manager is not a promotion so much as a change of profession. The capabilities that earned the role are no longer the ones the role requires.
Developing New Managers supports first-time managers and leaders, and those stepping into materially larger responsibility, through the shift from team member to accountable leader of others. It addresses the real demands of the transition — achieving results through a team rather than personal effort, taking responsibility for the performance and development of others, and managing relationships across and beyond the team.
Rather than teaching management in the abstract, the programme enables you to apply it to a live management challenge you are accountable for — so that new capability is built and tested in the work itself, over three months.
First-time managers taking responsibility for a team for the first time.
Recently promoted individual contributors making the move into a management and leadership role.
Managers in transition stepping into a materially larger or unfamiliar area of responsibility.
Technical or specialist staff who now lead people as well as deliver work.
The areas you develop through your work-based project.
Planning and implementing a work-based project to build management capability
AI guidance as you work through your project and reflection.
Directed readings through WRIA’s online platform.
Pre-recorded videos and activities for learning and reflection.
Be in a role where you can undertake a real work-based project.
Have adequate English language proficiency.
A plan for your work-based project.
Monthly reflective reports on your progress.
A final implementation report bringing together your reflections and your development as a manager.
Certificate of Completion — for those who complete the deliverables to the required standard.
Certificate of Participation — for those who take part but do not meet the standard.
A final report assessing your development as a manager, grounded in the evidence of a real management challenge.
A resolved or materially advanced management challenge that delivered a real outcome for the team or function.
Practised capability in delegation, team development, communication and decision-making under responsibility.
A Reflective Practice skills which you can carry forward in your career.
Download the detailed outline of structure, the work-based project and measurement.
Developing New Managers runs entirely online over about three months, built around a real project in the participant’s own role. Talk to us to find out more.