Tactical Tools, Lasting Impact
Imagine how it would feel to work at a place where everyone reports to a manager who is empowering, articulate, strategic and available. What if you could actually become such a manager by learning and practicing a set of concrete skills?
This course, designed specifically for managers in tech, is based on several hundreds of hours of partnership with incredibly effective and inspiring leaders and executives, and evidence-backed research on self-development. Even if you're a new manager, with the tactical frameworks, templates and tools that you'll learn in this course, you will start operating like a seasoned one right away.
Managing Up, Down & Across
You have the potential to influence your team, your leaders, and your peers, but your default approach might work for some, yet lead to confrontation with another. In this course, you'll learn the pros and cons of seven specific strategies, and learn to engage in conflict in a confident and productive way.
Managing Your Team
As a manager, you likely care deeply about ensuring your team is fulfilled at work. But how do you balance this with ensuring that they deliver on outcomes? This course covers tactical tools you can use everyday to hold your team accountable to expectations and empower them at the same time.
Managing Yourself
As you step into your identity as a manager, your priorities need to inevitably change from focusing on execution to defining strategy. This course will help you get clarity on the type of leader you want to be, how you want to spend your time, and specific tactics to realize that vision.
Course Curriculum
Course Details
This is a small cohort-based course that includes 5 interactive, bi-weekly 90-min sessions held virtually over Zoom, with assigned reflections to be completed between lectures. Optional office hours with the instructor are also available for all registered students.
$900
Register now to be a part of the next cohort.
Days/meeting times TBD with input from registered students
About the Instructor
Divya Ramachandran is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of California, Berkeley. Before transitioning to launch her own leadership coaching business, she worked for over a decade in the bay area tech startup world, wearing hats in both User Experience and Product. She was first introduced to executive coaching when she was serving as VP of Product at a deep-learning startup and was struck by the transformational impact it had on her own leadership style. Divya draws from her startup experience and training in highly-effective frameworks based on energy awareness to help new leaders and managers tackle their most common challenges, and amplify their own impact across their teams.
