First-Time Manager Foundations Training Course

Name: First-Time Manager Foundations and Team Leadership Course
Availability: InStock

Build the daily routines, conversations, delegation practices, and first-90-day priorities needed to lead a team for the first time.

First-Time Manager Foundations Training Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, London, Athens, Tashkent and more
Next session: 26 – 30 October 2026, Paris
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

First-Time Manager Foundations and Team Leadership Course is a one-week course for newly appointed supervisors, first-time managers, team leaders, and specialists moving into people responsibility, who leave with a 90-Day Manager Action Plan. Participants clarify role identity, set priorities, delegate outcomes, communicate expectations, lead meetings, give feedback, address performance, manage conflict, motivate people, and develop team capability. The course turns technical contribution into repeatable management practice. Agile Leaders Training Center develops practical first-line management capability.

Who Should Attend

New managers responsible for results through other people for the first time
Supervisors responsible for daily work allocation, follow-up, and team standards
Team leaders responsible for coordination, communication, and problem escalation
Technical specialists preparing to assume formal people-management responsibility
Project or functional coordinators beginning to conduct performance conversations

The course assumes participants know their operational work and are entering a people-management role; it leaves out executive strategy and advanced organizational design.

Departments and Industries

The course supports first-line management wherever teams must coordinate work, performance, and development.

Operations, customer service, sales, and administrative departments
Finance, technology, engineering, and professional-services teams
Manufacturing, logistics, construction, and energy organizations
Healthcare, education, public services, and nonprofit institutions
Retail, hospitality, telecommunications, and business-services enterprises

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply a role-transition map to new management responsibilities
Build team goals, priorities, routines, and meeting structures
Use delegation agreements with authority and checkpoints
Apply behavior-based feedback and performance conversations
Diagnose conflict, motivation, and team-development needs
Build a practical 90-Day Manager Action Plan

Course Agenda

Day 1: Role Transition and Direction

Individual-Contributor-to-Manager Transition Map
Manager Responsibility and Authority Charter
Stakeholder Expectation Interview Guide
Team Purpose and Outcome Statement
Priority and Goal Alignment Board

Day 2: Work Planning and Delegation

Workload and Capability Mapping Grid
Delegation Outcome and Authority Agreement
Responsibility, Support, and Checkpoint Plan
Team Meeting Agenda and Decision Log
Follow-Up Without Micromanagement Checklist

Day 3: Communication and Feedback

Manager Communication Channel Map
Active Listening and Questioning Sequence
Behavior-Impact Feedback Conversation
Expectation and Accountability Dialogue
Difficult-Conversation Preparation Sheet

Day 4: Performance and Team Development

Performance Expectation and Evidence Record
Coaching Question and Development Plan
Conflict Source and Response Matrix
Motivation and Recognition Preference Map
Team Development and Trust Action Review

Day 5: Management Practice and First 90 Days

Exercise: Reset Priorities and Team Working Agreements
Exercise: Delegate an Outcome with Authority and Controls
Exercise: Conduct Feedback and Performance Conversations
Exercise: Resolve a Team Conflict and Agree Follow-Up
Capstone Exercise: 90-Day Manager Action Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that convert daily management situations into repeatable routines.

Suggested activity: rewrite a task assignment as an outcome-based delegation agreement
Suggested activity: prepare feedback using observable behavior and work impact
Suggested activity: facilitate a short meeting with decisions, owners, and checkpoints
Suggested activity: map actions for the first 30, 60, and 90 days in role

FAQs

Who suits first-time manager foundations training?

New managers, supervisors, team leaders, and specialists entering people responsibility suit the training. Participants should know their operational work but need not have previous formal management experience.

How does first-time manager training differ from executive leadership training?

First-time manager training focuses on daily role clarity, priorities, delegation, communication, feedback, performance, meetings, conflict, motivation, and early team routines rather than enterprise strategy or executive governance.

What should a first-time manager delegate?

A first-time manager should delegate suitable outcomes with clear standards, authority, resources, support, checkpoints, and accountability while retaining responsibilities that require the manager's own judgment or authority.

How should a new manager give corrective feedback?

Corrective feedback should describe observable behavior, explain its work impact, invite the employee's perspective, agree the expected change, offer support, and set a follow-up point.

What belongs in a 90-Day Manager Action Plan?

A 90-Day Manager Action Plan should sequence stakeholder conversations, team expectations, priorities, delegation, meeting routines, feedback, development needs, relationship building, risks, and progress reviews.

Conclusion

Participants take back a 90-Day Manager Action Plan containing role expectations, stakeholder priorities, team outcomes, delegation agreements, meeting routines, feedback guides, performance records, conflict responses, and development actions. The plan converts a new title into deliberate management practices. It also creates checkpoints for learning from the team's response and adjusting early decisions.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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OverviewFirst-Time Manager Foundations and Team Leadership Course is a one-week course for newly appointed supervisors, first-time managers, team leaders, and specialists moving into people responsibility, who leave with a 90-Day Manager Action Plan. Participants clarify role identity, set priorities, delegate outcomes, communicate expectations, lead meet…

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First-Time Manager Foundations Training Course