Management Fundamentals
Research consistently demonstrates that highly engaged employees are instrumental in the health of the team and critical to the performance of an organization. When people experience a meaningful partnership with their manager and their team they are likely to be more productive, be more creative and to feel more engaged.
This two-week program will provide you with a grounding in the core elements that drive effectiveness in leading people & teams and will build skills around the most important people management practices that people leaders need to have to drive great performance.
Together we’ll explore the most important insights and practices that underpin great management and team leadership and identify ways to integrate these into your own personal leadership practice.
Course taught by expert instructors
Sara Sperling
Partner at Oxegen Consulting, LLC
Sara Sperling is Partner at Oxegen Consulting where she specializes in Interim Head of HR work, Executive Coaching, Learning & Development, and Diversity & Culture. Sara has helped industry leaders, like Meta, Snapchat, Google Ventures, GGV, Poshmark, and Udacity develop high-functioning teams that boost momentum, achieve greater results and increase value. Before co-founding Oxegen, Sara Sperling was Head of People at Snap and was the first global Head of Diversity at Meta (Facebook). At Meta, Sara launched the company’s first ever Engineering Leadership & Coaching program and the Mentoring & Coaching programs.
Stuart Crabb
Partner at Oxegen Consulting, LLC
Stuart Crabb is a Partner at Oxegen Consulting LLC, where he and Sara Sperling have advised more than 100 high growth startups. Previously, Stuart led Talent Development at Yahoo! and at Meta (Facebook). At Meta, he built the company’s now famous strengths-based, high-performance strategy and the launch of it’s widely acclaimed new hire, manager development and leader development programs.
The course
Learn and apply skills with real-world projects.
People who are new to managing or have recently returned to managing
Managers who are interested in a refresher of key principles
Future leaders who are interested in learning more about this topic
Dedication to and enthusiasm for developing your leadership skills
Openness to giving and receiving feedback
Enthusiasm for working with and learning from others
Readiness to actively participate and engage
Commitment to confidentiality
Try these prep courses first
- Module 1
- Identify the key practices the best people leaders use to lead a team well.
- Explore how mindset and the role of the leader affects how you show up & are received by others.
- Understand how leading is different from managing and how to effectively integrate both.
- Identify how to build a hypothesis for each person on your team which will help guide the way you lead them.
Module 2- Identify the practices a people leader uses to create and reinforce trust with others.
- Understand how to practice vulnerability as a bridge to trust and safety.
- Explore how to use empathy as a powerful and practical way to build effective relationships.
- Examine how fundamental psychological safety is to people and teams.
- Module 3
- Understand employee engagement & the best practices people leaders use to build highly engaged, high performing teams.
- Develop a strengths mindset and understand how to integrate it into everyday performance management practice.
- Explore the Performance Management cycle and the people leader’s role at each stage, including how to set effective goals, manage the weekly check-in and lead a development conversation with a colleague.
Module 4- Explore the elements that build highly engaged teams, and the best practices people leaders create to enable them.
- Understand the importance of showing care to the team and each person through effective personalized recognition.
- Explore the Shadow of the Leader principle and develop a mindset and ideas for leading others that is values driven and demonstrates personal accountability.
- Develop a personal leadership credo to define the kind of leader you wish to be.
Real-world projects
Work on projects that bring your learning to life.
Made to be directly applicable in your work.
Live access to experts
Sessions and Q&As with our expert instructors, along with real-world projects.
Network & community
Core reviews a study groups. Share experiences and learn alongside a global network of professionals.
Support & accountability
We have a system in place to make sure you complete the course, and to help nudge you along the way.
Get reimbursed by your company
More than half of learners get their Courses and Memberships reimbursed by their company.
Hundreds of companies have dedicated L&D and education budgets that have covered the costs.
