Managing your former peers is a learnable skill. The most common challenge for newly promoted leaders is how to performance manage and discipline the people who were formerly peers. The From Mates to Manager workshop teaches leaders and people-managers strategies to negotiate the line between friendship and leadership and be able to move forward in their new position. Leaders will learn how to think through the challenges of managing friends and former peers while still getting the job done, thus helping them to walk the leadership line with style with humour and grace.

Workshop Content

• Understand the differences between friendship and leadership while continuing to manage performance
• Learn a useful model for delegating projects and tasks
• Understand how to think through constructive responses to the challenging situations you are currently dealing with
• Develop an Action Plan to bring the lessons from this workshop back to your workplace

Who will benefit

Managers, team leaders and people wanting to have good and productive relations with their staff and needing to negotiate the line between being a friend while managing performance. This workshop will be excellent for newly promoted leaders or those in acting roles who now need to supervise their former peers.

Lunch and Morning & Afternoon tea will be provided for all attendees.

This workshop is limited to 12 participants only