Blanchard Management Essentials®
Equip New Managers with Crucial Skills for Success
When managers run into trouble, the costs are high: high turnover, low morale, low productivity, and more. Often, these performance challenges occur because they lack the basic management skills necessary for success. That’s why we created Blanchard Management Essentials®: a transformational leadership training program for new managers and those who need to hone the essential skills needed to build relationships. Maintain a positive attitude towards team members, inspire engagement, and increase productivity.
Provide Management Training to Your Emerging Leaders
Blanchard Management Essentials® is based on key concepts from the bestselling business book The New One Minute Manager®. It’s perfect for training new managers or promoting veterans, giving your employees the tools and training they need to become accomplished leaders. The program covers the essence of management training: the right thinking, core conversations, and communication skills needed to build positive relationships and keep employees productive.
The course introduces the four core dialogue models, a highly effective framework for understanding the communication fundamentals needed to manage people and performance.
Delivery Options to Suit Your Needs
We can deliver Blanchard Management Essentials® face-to-face, as a virtual version as part of a learning journey, or as a self-guided or moderated online version for administrators to managers, and you can learn this approach anytime, anywhere.
To ensure that your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have the time, SLII® can also be a component of a learning journey or taught in a self-directed online or moderated online version.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
Blanchard Management Essentials® is delivered in a one-day face-to-face session (six hours, including a 45-minute lunch break and four five- or ten-minute breaks). After the session, participants can access the Blanchard Management Essentials Challenge through the Blanchard Exchange Course Sustainment section, which guides learners through a series of assignments to practice new skills.
LAUNCH— Allows participants to watch a live-action video (LAV) trailer and choose four real-world work scenarios to work on in class
Welcome— Learn and do – welcome participants and define some outcomes and behavioral norms for the session
Transition— Helps participants understand the challenges of transitioning from individual contributor to a manager
INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR CORE CONVERSATIONS— Presents an overview of the Four Core Conversations
Essential Skills– Teaches managers the four essential skills needed to balance relationships and outcomes.
Four core Conversations— How to apply four fundamental skills in the context of four main conversations: Goal Setting, Praising,
Redirecting, and Wrapping Up.
Closing— Helps managers develop a set of intentions to guide their future behavior.
Virtual Instructor-led Course
Build positive relationships with your leaders in three 2-hour virtual training sessions that teach the fundamentals of the world-renowned One Minute Manager conversations, designed to drive engagement and productivity for productive performance conversations with your team members.
Virtual Session 1: Learning— Helps participants understand the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor role to a manager role and teaches managers the four essential skills needed to balance relationships and outcomes
Virtual Session 2: Practice— Demonstrates how to apply the four essential conversational skills in the first two management conversations (goal setting and praise).
Virtual Session 3: Practice— Guides participants through practice activities in the third and fourth conversations – Redirecting and Wrapping Up – and prepares them to bring new knowledge and skills back to their professional lives.
fourth conversations— Redirecting and Wrapping Up – and prepares them to bring new knowledge and skills back to their professional lives
After the sessions, participants can access the Blanchard Management Essentials Challenge through the Blanchard Exchange Course Retention section, which guides learners through a series of assignments to practice skills.
This two-hour leadership solution teaches new managers the skills they need to enter new roles confidently. The course also helps established managers and supervisors improve essential management skills and helps emerging leaders reach their full potential.
Online Program
Learning Design- Six modules (approximately 20 minutes each), including assignments, engaging participant material, videos, and learning activities.
Blended learning options– introductory lessons and Debrief sessions can enhance content and are easy to facilitate.
Sustainability Tools– Participants can access videos and worksheets reinforcement for a full year through their learner portal after the course.
Digital kbassets
- Micro-Activities: Organized into bite-sized pieces, 1 to 5 minutes
- Interactive exercises: Fun and engaging activities including videos, games, stories, case studies, and online discussions
- Manager-led Debriefs: Optional manager-led debriefs allow for collaboration and discussion for a blended learning experience
Online overview
This 35-minute online overview walks you through the core concepts of Blanchard Management Essentials® through short, interactive tools and videos. Ideal for learners who need an overview of new content or knowledge, the course design can be used with virtual and in-person sessions or as part of a learning journey to create a more flexible learning experience.
Vital Training to Help Managers Get Off to a Good Start
45% of managers say they lack the confidence to help employees develop the necessary skills. 1
26% of first-time managers feel they are not ready to lead others. 2
75% of managers want more training on how to be a good boss. 3
Don’t let your managers rely on false intuitions to reduce morale and productivity. Train them in basic management skills to maximize their performance.
The New Manager Training Advantage
Blanchard Management Essentials® transforms struggling managers into inspiring leaders. It teaches managers to communicate effectively, set goals, empathize, and provide feedback. When managers know how to do this, their organizations take flight.
Ready to get started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to effectively manage and develop their people. Whether you prefer a standard, well-established training design or create a custom learning experience for your employees, we can help you succeed.
