Manager Training
Better managers are built through practice—not presentations.
Managing people requires a different set of skills. Advanced HR helps new and developing managers build the practical fundamentals they need to communicate clearly, set expectations, navigate difficult situations, develop employees, and lead their teams effectively.
Three-hour workshops combine real workplace situations, activities, discussion, role-play, and tools managers can put to work immediately.
Practical Skills for Managing People
Build the skills managers use every day.
Choose individual workshops based on your organization's needs or combine multiple topics into a more comprehensive manager development program. Each workshop is designed around practical application—not passive instruction.
Making the Shift: From Employee to Manager
Build the mindset, role clarity, and foundational habits needed to move successfully into management.
Setting Expectations & Creating Accountability
Set clear expectations, follow through consistently, and create accountability without relying on constant oversight.
Intentional Manager Communication
Communicate with greater clarity, consistency, purpose, and awareness of how messages are received.
Delegating for Results & Development
Delegate effectively while balancing accountability, employee development, and the manager's own workload.
Giving Feedback That Works
Deliver useful feedback clearly and constructively so employees understand what to continue or change.
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Prepare for and manage challenging conversations with greater confidence, clarity, and control.
Coaching for Performance & Growth
Use coaching conversations to strengthen performance, problem-solving, ownership, and employee development.
Managing Performance Effectively
Address performance early, diagnose what is getting in the way, and manage improvement with greater consistency.
Managing Conflict & Team Dynamics
Recognize conflict patterns, intervene productively, and strengthen how employees work together.
Engaging & Leading Today's Workforce
Adapt management practices to changing employee expectations while maintaining clear standards and business priorities.
Find Your Solution can help you think through what your managers are experiencing and identify the Advanced HR solutions most relevant to the need.
Designed for Application
The workshop ends. The development doesn't.
Managers don't become better managers simply by hearing about management. Development happens when they learn, practice, apply new approaches in the workplace, and continue strengthening those skills over time.
Learn
Build knowledge
Managers learn essential concepts, approaches, and practical tools for handling real management situations more effectively.
Practice
Try it before it counts
Exercises, scenarios, discussion, and role-play provide a safe environment to test new approaches and build confidence.
Apply
Put learning to work
Managers take new skills back to work and apply them to real conversations, decisions, challenges, and opportunities.
Strengthen
Keep building
Structured reinforcement, reflection, and follow-through help new behaviors become part of everyday management.
Measure What Changes
Development should create more than a positive training experience. Brief pre- and post-development assessments establish a baseline and measure changes in confidence, capability, and real-world application.
For organizational programs, aggregate results provide greater visibility into participant progress and the impact of the training investment.
StickShift™
Learning is only valuable when it changes what happens at work. StickShift™ keeps development moving after the workshop, helping managers practice, apply, reflect, and strengthen new skills until learning becomes action.
Reinforcement length is matched to the scope of the training engagement, with live check-ins included in multi-workshop programs.
Flexible Ways to Learn
One workshop or a complete manager development experience.
Flexible Delivery
Live Virtual
Interactive workshops delivered live online for a single organization or through open-enrollment sessions.
Interactive Learning
Live Onsite
Interactive workshops delivered at your organization, with options for individual workshops or multi-session development programs.
On-Demand
Self-Paced Learning
Flexible courses designed in four focused 20-minute modules so managers can develop skills around their schedules.
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Build the Program That Fits
Start with what your managers actually need.
Select individual topics to address a specific need, combine several workshops around your organization's priorities, or complete all ten Manager Training workshops for a comprehensive foundation in people management.
Choose the Right Development
Manager Training or Leadership Effectiveness?
Managing people and leading an organization require related—but different—capabilities. The right development depends on what the individual is being asked to do.
Manager Training
Focuses on the fundamentals of managing employees effectively: communication, delegation, feedback, accountability, coaching, performance, conflict, and day-to-day people leadership.
Leadership Effectiveness
Develops broader capabilities needed to influence, think strategically, navigate complexity, create alignment, and contribute beyond an immediate team.
Explore Leadership EffectivenessBuild Managers Who Are Ready to Manage
Build the right development experience for your managers.
Whether you're developing first-time managers, strengthening fundamentals across an existing management team, or building a more consistent approach to management across your organization, Advanced HR can help you determine what development makes sense.