Google New Manager Training Part 1 - Laying the Foundation

Overview

Inspired by Google's Project Oxygen, this learn pathway equips new engineering managers with foundational leadership skills. Through role-plays, learn key management behaviors, foster a growth mindset, and enhance emotional intelligence, creating a supportive work environment for team growth.

Syllabus

• Why Manage? Understanding the Impact of Managers
This course focuses on understanding why managers are crucial to team success and the positive impact they can have. It covers recognizing both effective and ineffective management behaviors and highlights the unique value managers bring to their teams.
• Key Behaviors of Successful Managers: Project Oxygen Insights
This course introduces Google’s Project Oxygen research findings, detailing the key behaviors identified as essential for successful managers. It provides a deep dive into each behavior, helping managers integrate them into their daily practices.
• Cultivating a Growth Mindset and Value-Driven Leadership
This course introduces mindset and values and their impact on performance. It emphasizes how managers can prime themselves and team members to operate in a growth mindset and make value-driven decisions.
• Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader
This course explains the importance of emotions in making informed decisions and covers practical skills for managing emotional triggers and developing emotional intelligence.
• Cultivating Empathy, Compassion, and Resilience in Leadership
This course focuses on transforming empathy into compassionate action, coping strategies for stress and setbacks, and developing resilience in managers and their teams to cultivate a positive and supportive work environment.

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Subjects

Business