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From Employee to Manager : a Successful Transition

Build credibility, strengthen your leadership, and step into your new position with confidence.

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  • Duration: 0.5 days
  • Regular price: $345
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Duration: 0,5 day

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Transitioning from Employee to Manager is a pivotal moment in any career.
This shift in role brings new challenges, expanded responsibilities, and heightened expectations. This half-day training is designed to equip you with practical tools to navigate this transition with confidence and effectiveness.
With actionable advice, concrete tools, and clear benchmarks, you’ll be prepared to step into your new role with assurance, achieve early wins, and lay the foundation for lasting leadership success.

Public concerné

New managers

Préalables

None

Objectifs

  • Become conscious of the new stakes, challenges and expectations in regarding your new role
  • Build an action plan to guide you through the first three months of the job and accelerate transition from employee to manager
  • Learn how to utilize appropriate tools and obtain practical tips to enhance your success

Contenu

Successfully transitioning from employee to manager
  • Establish your credibility
  • Build your network
  • Provoke rapid success
  • Avoid traps and adopt powerful behaviours
Meeting your challenges!
  • Transition from self-management to the management of others
  • Delegate to best achieve your results
  • Understand the culture of your organization, your division and your team
  • Position yourself in your new role: identify your strengths and talents, traps and vulnerabvulnerabilities.le zones
Action plan to guide and energize your path
  • Achieve the results for business success (what)
  • Choose the resources and activities to reach your goals (how)
  • Assign deadlines with proven tools (when)
  • Identify the people, resources and tools needed (who, what)
  • Conduct regular check-ups and obtain support when needed
  • Acknowledge your success and adapt a new course of action when applicable
  • Take stock in your apparent job integration

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Maria Mikulowicz
Maria Mikulowicz
Trainer
As a trainer, coach and senior advisor for more than 25 years, Maria has a solid experience, both in terms of implementation and dissemination of training programs, as well as a coach in training and organizational development. As a bilingual trainer at AFI Expertise, she has trained several thousand people, mainly in the fields of management skills, leadership, communication and customer services. Maria has led mandates at both tactical and strategic levels: management teams, operations and frontline personnel.
Claude Fortin
Claude Fortin
Trainer and Strategic Advisor
Holder of a master's degree in public administration, Claude worked for 30 years in the Quebec health and social services network. As a strategic advisor, his renowned approach to managing issues that are related to complex organizations and challenges that these businesses are facing is contextualized and modern. He supports organizations in achieving their business objectives and advices companies on the strategy to adopt according to the desired organizational evolution.
Michel Drolet
Michel Drolet
Executive VP and Strategic Management Advisor
Backed by solid experience in industry, Michel is what you would call a high-level strategic consultant.
Vanessa Deschênes
Vanessa Deschênes
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Coach, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, Vanessa is recognized as a change agent and a human, caring, and inspiring leader who is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Passionate about people, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and somatic approaches, she supports leaders and organizations in building high, sustainable performance that safeguards both results and the people who drive them. A trained lawyer with an MBA, Vanessa has had the privilege of appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada and being listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Lexpert Directory. She is also a recipient of the ZSA Tomorrow’s Leader Award for up-and-coming legal advisors. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and management, Vanessa has held prominent positions, including Chief Privacy Officer at a major Canadian financial institution and partner in a law firm. From the start of her career, she has designed and delivered trainings and conferences, and as a speaker and trainer, she brings more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Vanessa is highly regarded for her ability to demystify complex subjects and make them practical and accessible. An entrepreneur and certified coach in leadership and sustainable performance, Vanessa also holds certifications as a meditation teacher, applied neuroscience practitioner, Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner, and in various other somatic practices. She has completed Kaos Pilot Level 2 (Master Archer – art & craft of designing & facilitating learning spaces) and is a certified AtmanCo professional.
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Kathleen Sears
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Florence Jacob
Florence Jacob
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As a holder of a double bachelor's and master's degree in management from HEC Montréal, Florence has accumulated nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant and specialist in organizational development. Her career in parapublic, public and private organizations has allowed her to perfect her expertise in coaching and leader development. Promoting knowledge sharing and managerial skills transferring is at the heart of her approaches as a consultant. Florence is known as a committed partner. Her support type is dynamic, structured and oriented towards an opened and transparent communication.
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As a business coach, trainer, facilitator and speaker, Isabelle accompanies professionals, managers and executives to help them maximize their full potential and gain impact as inspiring leaders. Passionate about people, she stands out for her warm, concrete and mobilizing approach. Her strategic vision and solid experience make her a collaborator of choice. Isabelle has more than 20 years of management and leadership experience in large-scale companies and various industrie.