Christophe BodinAdvising investment firms, individuals and giving back to the Leaders community, Next Chapter MC LLC · 35 successful years leading GTM team, now giving back through podcasts, videocasts, and 1o1 coaching as well advising investment firms

Managing a team'slist of management skills to acq good morning leader

12 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional monologue, the speaker outlines a comprehensive checklist for new managers to ensure their teams understand delivery expectations and operate smoothly. Key recommendations include establishing clear performance expectations, holding weekly one‑on‑one meetings, defining the format and rules for team (one‑to‑many) meetings, managing vacations, handovers, and overlap, specifying required reporting, setting meeting regulations, articulating expected behaviors, and describing what "good" looks like. The speaker emphasizes that these practices are teachable and essential for effective first‑time management.

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There's nothing worse than a team that don't know what they're expected to deliver. How many one-on-ones? I would recommend at least weekly. What are the format of the one-to-many, i.e., the team meeting that I want to have? How do I going to manage vacation and overlap and handovers? What are the reporting? That I'm expecting as manager? What are the rules and regulations of all team meetings? What are the behaviors that are expected? What good looks like? See the list? It's a huge list. You can put stop, go back 1 minute. It's all the things that you need to learn, and it's teachable very easily in order to manage properly as a first-time manager.