Date

Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 August 2025 (bookings close at 12noon Thursday 7 August 2025 unless sold out prior)

Rising to the Next Level: Middle Manager's Leaders Transition

Leading from the middle is not about a position; it is about meeting the demands from above while providing resources to and meeting the needs of those below.

As a middle manager it is time to lead by working through others. For many, it’s a pivotal turning point in their leadership journey as the skills they need now are not a rehash of what they have done before, but rather a letting go of some of the things that they have built their reputation on and engendering these capabilities in others.

Rising to the next level is a mid-level manager’s course designed to help the leader move from being a specialist or functional leader to being a strategic leader who achieves things through others.

This two-day course will weave critical mid-level leadership competencies together into a practical, move the dial integration of discovery, design, and delivery back at work.

Key topics will include:

Understanding the unique demands of middle management and what it takes to rise to the next level
Getting sorted on what is important and what is consuming (but not helping the boat go faster)
Systems thinking for goal setting and programme planning
Crafting a compelling story about the group’s direction of travel
- Explaining Your Why in a way that resonates and is authentic
- Crafting a plan on a page that others can buy-into
Building talent in your team through empowerment that goes beyond delegation
Harnessing personal strengths for leadership growth and impact
Bridging the strategic knowing / doing gap
Crafting a plan on a page that can be shared with others back at work

What to expect:

Rising to the Next Level involves two development days plus a bit of pre-post-work. Day one will focus on the tools of developing a strategic mindset, and day two will involve developing a strategic overview for the business you are a part of that can be shared with your team.

The format of this programme is self-directed but interactive. We learn most when we are planning to share with others. The outcome of the course will be a short presentation on your strategic direction of travel, your vision for the teams you lead and a compelling invitation to others to join you in implementing a plan that is built on strength, experience, and intelligent experimentation.

Course Facilitator

Professor of Practice Dr Michelle Shields, MS Organisational Development; PhD Psychology, is a strengths-based HRD/OD practitioner. As principal consultant with Fulcrum Associates Ltd., she uses strengths-based approaches to help teams with strategy formation and culture change. She is an international partner of the Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Leadership practice employing strengths-based development for leveraging leadership at all levels. She has over thirty-years’ experience as a practitioner in New Zealand and the US, is the founder of Culture First Canterbury, and is a Chartered Member of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand.

This course is $2100pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.
Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for) and booking fees.