Mastering Middle Management
For brilliant middle, new & aspiring managers and leaders.
There are many reasons why middle managers however talented feel the pain more than other levels. They’re the do-ers, the ‘make or break’ of everyone beneath and to some extent above them and the executors of company strategy. It’s an often impossible and exhausting juggle between doing their own work, leading others and managing upwards as well as down. They tend to do less of the creative, applied or technical stuff they enjoy or were great at and spend more time implementing decisions they haven’t made and trying to lead and inspire the people around them.
Whether you’re the middle manager yourself or the forward thinking, conscious employer who wants to support them, you’ll know that this role holds a unique set of challenges that are tricky to navigate alone. Known as a “neglected but critical group”, they’ve been found to experience higher levels of depression, stress and anxiety than other levels at work.
Investing in coaching and support with someone who thoroughly understands the complexities of this level can reduce absence levels, improve efficiency, reduce turnover and increase wellbeing for middle managers and for the people they support and are supporting.
What
In the Mastering Middle Management programme, coaching is focused on the areas that are most relevant at this stage in their career and life such as:
Confidence building and overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome.
Discovering their own authentic leadership style.
Improving wellbeing, balance in life and managing stress & mental health
Getting the balance between doing their own job and managing other people.
Navigating organisational politics.
Managing people who have been there longer & are older than them.
Learning the art of delegating appropriately.
Increasing their influencing powers and skills.
Making the leap from friend and colleague to manager.
Handling difficult conversations
Managing upwards
Planning the next steps in their life and career
How:
Over a 6 month period middle managers will have :
7 x one hour one to one focussed coaching sessions in person or by Zoom
1 x in-depth Insights Discovery Personality Profiling report. This detailed report examines personality traits, strengths, weaknesses, management style and blind spots. It will indicate how someone perform bests and where they may be challenged as a manager. We can use this as a basis to develop the manager’s strengths and work on their weaknesses so they become even more successful.
A People Person Profile report and debrief.
Support creating a Personal Development plan designed to ensure their success.
Focussed coaching around “hot spot” areas that come up in their report and plan.
Ability to book further hours of coaching at a reduction from the normal hourly rate.
Investment:
Mastering Middle Management coaching starts at £2,995 + VAT. Reduced pricing is available for fully self-funding clients.
Lara doesn’t work with everyone. If she doesn’t think she’s the right coach for you she’ll tell you honestly and, where she can, will try to help you find someone else who’s a better fit. Same goes if she’s fully booked and you don’t want to wait until she has an opening - she’ll do her best to match you to another brilliant people person . Lara’s main goal is for you to achieve yours, however that happens.