Just Stepped Into Management?
NextUp2Lead Has Your Back

Just Stepped Into Management?
NextUp2Lead Has Your Back
Learn to successfully navigate the dimensions of effective management: Managing In, Managing Out, Managing Up, and Managing Forward.
Leadership coaching to help you explore, grow, and master skills applicable to all four of the dimensions of effective management. Incorporating these into your thoughts, decision, and actions will put you on the right path to success.
What We Offer:
1x1 Coaching:
Personalized guidance to help you navigate your leadership journey.
Training Courses:
From half-day sessions to multi-day immersive experiences.
Speaking Engagements:
Inspiring talks that energize and educate.
Managing In is a mindset to execute behaviors, tactics and actions associated with the development of your personal management skill set. Development of well-tuned management skills takes experience, time, and practice. It requires understanding your type and your interaction with others, continual improvement based on incorporation of feedback, investment in ongoing learning, enhancing your ability your process change, and vigilance to maintain a healthy work life balance.
Managing Out is a mindset to recognize you are part of a larger organization and to define strategy, execute behaviors, tactics, and actions for working with groups and processes outside of your team. It includes understanding your business ecosystem, building healthy peer and support group relationships, as well as recognizing, and navigating the political environment. Also, the key is giving visibility to your team’s work process and output and networking through your teams’ participation in organizational and company events.
Managing Up is a mindset to establish healthy relationships and effective communication with your organizational leadership. It includes behaviors, tactics and actions associated with understanding and aligning your team to the organizations Vision and Mission, providing solutions that accomplish the business needs, actively engaging as a member of the leadership team, implementing efficient and communication, and effective utilization of company tools and process.
Managing Forward is a mindset to define strategy, and execute behaviors, tactics and actions associated with building a positive and healthy work environment to enable the business success of your team. It includes leading your team to plan and measure work, assess, recognize, and reward the team members, grow skills and capabilities, manage through change, overcome obstacles, and ultimately lead the team to successfully achieve its goals. It is by far the largest aspect of the dimensions of people management and most successful when done in conjunction with Manage In, Manage Out, and Manage Up.
Are you NextUp2Lead? Now what? Perhaps you were a technical lead or content expert for your team and got promoted to Manager, or you were a Program or Project Manager doing an excellent job and are now in line to manage a team. The role is responsible for the care and guidance of the people on your team as well as optimizing the resultant output of the team. It’s important to recognize and embrace the new role.
NextUp2Lead will help you to get a great start and accelerate your management career through customized 1x1 coaching based on work developed around the concept of “Managing Forward”. It is a compilation of “success practices” proven to provide direction to successfully navigate the dimensions of effective people Management: Managing In, Managing Out, Managing Up, and most importantly Managing Forward.
Learning success practices and applying skills, behaviors, tactics, and actions associated with each dimension will allow you to create a healthy, engaging work environment, and build a framework for success.
Sign up for a free 1-hour consultation to learn more about how to achieve your career goals.
Are you now managing a New Manager or group of New Managers?
You may or may not have had a great experience when you first started managing but want to ensure your new managers have the best start. How do you guide them? What are the key management Success Practices? How can you help them transition and embrace the new role? Many New Managers are highly successful, self-motivated, and self-directed individuals with college level degrees in their specific area of expertise, but many with no formal training in Management Science or people management.
NextUp2Lead will help you guide your new managers with customized half day to multi day training courses and 1x1 coaching based on work developed around the concept of “Managing Forward”. It is a compilation of “success practices” proven to provide direction to successfully navigate the dimensions of effective people Management: Managing In, Managing Out, Managing Up, and most importantly Managing Forward. Learning success practices and applying skills, behaviors, tactics, and actions associated with each dimension will allow you to create a healthy, engaging work environment, and build a framework for success.
Early education, training, and focused coaching sets new managers on a path for a great start to their management careers and provides them with context of what they should know as they get started.
Reach out to learn how you can help them in the first 6 months and prepare them for management events they may experience in their first two years and beyond.
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