People Management: Develop your team and Achieve your Goals

This course focuses on a core behavioral trait of a People Manager, that often takes a backseat - the ability to DEVELOP. Decades of research show that diverse teams, while often high performing, also encounter obstacles and face resistance. People Managers who attempt to reshape their workforce without first acknowledging the challenges of difference - risk getting mired in conflict and acrimony, which can undermine effectiveness.

This course talks about appreciating the differences in your team, yet involving them in your decisions. Knowing how to deliver feedback effectively is a vital management skill and we delve into details of that. As an add-on, this course also talks about having effective career conversations with the team and nurturing them to grow within the organization.

Overall, every lecture in this course signifies those aspects of a great people manager that creates the difference between "good" and "great". Even if you think you are a good leader and have traits of a good manager, this course is what is needed to evolve that good into being great. After all, the ability to provide feedback in a manner that it is feed-forward is not something that every working professional can easily do.

After going through this course, you need to start introspecting more based on the various learnings provided during these lectures. If you start that introspection on a more regular basis, and start implementing some of the tools and techniques provided during the course, while being aware of the various deep insights and concepts shared, you can start seeing a change in your work performance and that of your team. And you will get a step nearer towards becoming a great people manager.