Becoming a manager: advantages and challenges

Training Theme 

This training helps to explore the motivations and implications of the managerial function. It allows you to understand whether management really corresponds to your professional aspirations, through the analysis of the different reasons that push you to become a manager (evolution, autonomy, personal achievement, etc.). The training also addresses possible alternatives to management and the importance of a well-thought-out choice rather than a default one. It is based on concrete tools such as the career anchor questionnaire to guide reflection and decision-making.

Training Objectives 

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Clarify the reasons why you became a manager and what interest you find in it.
• Evaluate the benefits of holding a managerial position: autonomy, authority, career advancement, etc.
• Rekindle the sense of your managerial role by revisiting and/or expanding on the reasons for choosing this demanding function.
• Diagnose your career anchors, what is essential to you in choosing a job: work-life balance, creativity, management, purpose, expertise, etc.
• Make the choice again to pursue (or not) a managerial role.

Target Audience 

Managers or future managers.

Means and Methods 

• E-learning Modules: Consisting of text, videos, interactive content, and quizzes designed to help you achieve the defined learning outcomes.
• Additional resources: Downloadable documents such as the coaching memo sheet (PDF).

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• Storytelling: Video "Why did you say YES?", 0'55
  • A humorous reflection on the importance of thinking carefully before accepting a managerial position, through an analogy with a calf's head
• Video quiz
• Infographic "Becoming a manager is not a dream"
  • Presentation of statistics on the perception of the managerial role

LEARN

• Expert video: Why become a manager?, 3'54
  • Exploration of motivations to become a manager: money, evolution, power/autonomy, self-realization
• Quiz and TRUE/FALSE on managerial motivations
• Guide "Do I (still) want to be a manager?" (5 key points)
• Exploring different career alternatives

ANCHOR

• Personal commitments to be made according to your profile
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents:
  • Career Anchors Questionnaire (PDF)
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)
• Bonus: TED or Youtube video(s)