The transition from being a great individual contributor to being a leader of other individual contributors is one of the most important and challenging stages in your career. If this first leadership transition does not go well, it often delivers a negative ripple effect that can dim your future career prospects. The bad news is, more than fifty percent of first-time managers get lower performance evaluations as leaders, than they did as individual contributors. The good news is, when the transition goes well, it can produce positive career results that are amplified far into the future.

This transition from individual contributor to manager of individual contributors is not only important for you as a specific manager, but for your organisation as well. Systematic weakness at the transition from completing tasks yourself to getting tasks done through others can weaken and limit the overall leadership pipeline and the subsequent performance of the organisation.

The irony is, many of the skills and behavioural patterns that help you to succeed as an individual contributor are not those that ensure success when you move to leading others. In fact, some of the behaviours that help you do well as an individual contributor can actually hurt your performance as a manager.

Learning to Lead (LLD) is designed to help you understand the nature of this transition and develop critical people skills that often make the difference between longer-term career success or failure.

It is specifically designed for you as a first-time manager to, prepare you before you take on this new role or assist you soon after you take up this challenge.

• Develop clear insights into your strengths and weaknesses as a leader

• Acquire tools to create vision and set direction for your team

• Master frameworks for inspiring people and motivating their performance

Click here for a synopsis of LLD and other open-enrolment programmes running in Abu Dhabi or download a copy of the Abu Dhabi leaflet.

• Management Acceleration Programme