Maximizing Your Impact

The Maximizing Your Impact Workshop is designed to assist managers of managers in understanding how to increase their contribution to the organization in their current role. 

This one and a half-day workshop takes a unique approach to helping participants understand the key accountabilities for managing managers. Drawing on extensive industry research, participants are taught about the required shift in the approach to their work, the behavior change that must take place, the steps that must be followed, and the insights and tools needed to fully execute the role of a manager of managers.

Learning Objectives

Upon successfully completing this workshop, participants will meet the following objectives:

1. A planning session designed to help participants make a greater impact in their overall leadership approach to managing other managers.
2. Understand organizational expectations and why they shift over time.
3. Learn the key leadership accountabilities that define highly effective managers of managers.
4. Develop a personal Impact Action Plan.

Target Audience

The following groups of people have been identified as the primary audience for this workshop:

1. New managers of managers who need to understand what is expected of them in their new role.
2. Incumbent managers of managers who need to increase their impact in the high- payoff areas of selecting and developing first-line leaders, fostering a strategic mindset, deploying resources and managing boundaries.
   

MYI Outline

This workshop is designed to be delivered over the course of two days.  At the end of the experience, senior leaders will complete an "Impact Development Plan," including a list of actions that they will implement over the long term as well as the next 100 days.

Module 1: Awareness

• Leadership Importance
• Agenda/Objectives/Expectations

Module 2: Perspective

• Contribution Expectations
• Roles within the "Leading Others" Stage
  • Informal Leader (project manager)
  • Manager of Individual Contributors (MOI)
  • Manager of Managers (MOM)
  • Functional Manager
• Role difference, requirements, and expectations
• Helping Direct Reports Transition
  • Identifying traps and obstacles
  • Providing guidance and solutions
• Leadership Accountabilities overview

Module 3: Application

Increasing your impact as a Manager of Managers

• Letting Go of the Individual Mindset
• Leading by Example (they WILL follow your lead)
• Empowering Direct Reports
• Strategic Thinking

The Five Critical Advanced Leadership Accountabilities

1. Selecting First-Line Leaders
   • Avoiding the pitfalls (hiring clones)
   • Common Hiring Traps
   • Behavioral Interviewing Overview
   • Hiring from the outside and inside
2. Developing First-Line Leaders
   • Identifying obstacles
   • Delegating & assigning leadership work
   • Holding First-Line Leaders accountable for leadership work
   • The Value of Stretch Job Assignments
   • Helping First-Line Leaders to develop Stage 3 capability on their team
     • Effective Coaching
     • How to delegate strategically
     • How to organize the work strategically
   • Rewards & Recognition: How do you effectively reward/recognize people for taking a Stage 3 Approach?
   • Dealing with non-performers
     • Working to maintain high performing teams
     • Making tough decisions
3. Fostering a Strategic Mindset
   • Creating a culture of innovation and risk taking: Strategic improvising planning
   • Building strategic relationships
     • The value of expanding your network
     • Strategies for Building an Influential Network
4. Resource Deployment: Managing, dividing, and reallocating resources
   • Finance
   • Technology
   • Support Staff
5. Managing Boundaries
   • Silo Busting
   • Communicating & aligning strategies
   • Changing from a functional to an egalitarian viewpoint

Module 4: Planning

1. Putting it all together: Creating your 100-Day Action Plan
2. Post-workshop commitments & activities