Creating Better Managers

Managers need to be effective leaders. But there is more to it than that.

Business school teaches that the act of management consists of four things: leading, planning, organizing, and controlling.

Leading is behavioral. It is therefore the hardest to learn.

Leadership skills are learnable, even though they are behavioral. Behaviors and traits affecting behaviors can be improved.

The others — planning, organizing, and controlling — are cognitive skills and they can be learned through conventional training. However, their effectiveness hinges on one’s leadership. That’s why leadership must come first. But all of these things matter.

Skills for planning, organizing, and controlling (keeping things “under control”) are cognitive, but are also impacted by inner traits.

That is why we separate our learning programs into two curricula, the leadership curriculum and the management curriculum, because one is deeply behavioral and the other is mostly cognitive. Thus, the learning approach is different.

The workshops of our leadership curriculum are designed to be highly engaging with self reflection and insight creation. They also are supported by developmental workshops that go deep on key behaviors.

The workshops of our management curriculum are also very engaging, but are more about helping people to understand concepts and practice techniques.