Leadership Development for New Managers
Most new managers are promoted and left to figure it out alone. SHIFT is leadership development for new managers who need real skills, not theory — a six-week programme that changes how you lead, starting Monday.
SHIFT is for you if you've been in a leadership role for anywhere between three months and three years, and some part of you still isn't sure you've got it figured out.
You have a difficult conversation you've been putting off for weeks. Maybe longer.
You're not sure if your team actually respects you or just tolerates you because you're the manager.
Someone on your team isn't performing, and you have no idea how to address it without making things worse.
You find yourself solving problems you know your team should be solving because it's faster and easier than explaining.
You lie awake wondering if the people above you are about to realise they made a mistake promoting you.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Nothing is wrong with you. You were promoted without being prepared. That's not a character flaw.
It's a gap nobody filled.
The skills that got you promoted are the wrong skills for this job.
As an individual contributor, you succeeded by being good—by knowing the answers, solving the problems, and doing the work. The better you were at it, the more you got recognized.
As a manager, all of that works against you. Your job is to draw answers out of other people, to build a team that can solve problems. The habits that made you exceptional before will undermine you now, unless you replace them with something different.
The habits you build in your first year stick. What you normalize now—the conversations you avoid, the feedback you don't give, the standards you let slide—becomes your leadership style. The longer you wait to get intentional, the harder it is to change.
Who SHIFT is built for.
SHIFT is leadership development for new managers, for newly promoted, or early-stage managers—typically in the first one to three years of a leadership role. You might not be falling apart, but there's a gap between where you are and where you want to be.
You were promoted from within so you know the job, but not yet how to lead the people doing it.
You're not getting adequate coaching or support from your own manager.
You're ready to stop figuring it out alone and start leading with intention.
You want tools you can actually use, not theory you have to translate.
You're willing to bring your real situations into the room and work through them honestly.
How it works.
Format
Cohort-based: 6–16 participants per cohort
Sessions
Six sessions across six weeks—3 hours each
Total Time
18 hours of facilitated learning
Delivery
In-person, virtual, or blended. All equally effective
Between
Structured real-world application challenges—this is where the learning embeds
Included
Workshop materials, leadership journal, and a 30/60/90-day action plan
