Bitesize training courses → Management & leadership → Managing friends
Training course:
Managing friends
Two hours • In-person or remote • 4-15 participants
Rated 4.2/5 ★★★★ from 4 recent reviews
About this bitesize training course
One of the key challenges of promotion is that new managers are often thrown into a position where they now need to change the working relationships they have enjoyed with those who, until recently, would have been colleagues and friends.
This practical session provides techniques for earning respect and making changes to the relationship without breaking it.
Attendees of the Managing friends training session will learn to:
Make the right choices about behaviour in various situations
Learn to manage in a way that can avoid having difficult conversations
Learn how to absorb the additional demands during the working day
Establish a process which allows sound management of team conduct and performance
Understand the effect of different types of questions and learn to communicate in an assertive way
Minimise the risk of alienating team members by planning discussions and use a process that will achieve the required outcome
Be consistent and learn techniques to manage in a way that feels comfortable and that brings consistency to the team’s performance
Key details
this bitesize training course is two hours long and packed with powerful ideas
designed for groups of 4 – 15
delivered by an expert trainer at your workplace, or virtually
interactive, with plenty of exercises that get people talking
customisable, to connect with your organisation’s values
“The delivery was excellent and informative – it prompted me to think more about certain situations at work!” ★★★★
Attendee, Managing Friends
Why book this training session?
🧕🏼 Support new managers
Managing friends is one of those transitional topics that more senior managers may be less exposed to, and is easy to neglect. But this training course delivers valuable support against one of the very real challenges new managers can face.
↗️ Promote from within
The challenge of managing friends often emerges at companies with an otherwise laudable culture of developing talent and promoting internally. This course gives you the confidence to bring individual contributors into management positions without stressing about the impact on the wider team.
🙃 For dynamic teams
This training course is a great fit for organisations where teams may form and reform for different projects, requiring different members of a peer group to take the driving seat at different times. It’s also suitable for startups and scale-ups where new management responsibilities are likely to arrive imminently.
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“Maximal learning in a short, but intense, session. This is definitely the way forward for management training, as far as I am concerned.”
Professor Niamh Moran, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland ★★★★★
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