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New Manager Essentials: The First 90 Days
A scenario-based e-learning course on a manager's first 90 days, decision by decision.
Overview
A scenario-based e-learning course on the move from doing the work to managing it: the listening tour, the former-peer conversation nobody wants, setting expectations that hold, and delegating at the right level rather than the comfortable one. In production. It will ship as a scenario-based, self-paced e-learning course: a SCORM 1.2 package for your LMS, with completion tracking.
Format. Self-paced, scenario-based e-learning. SCORM 1.2 — upload it to your LMS and completion tracks automatically.
Who it is for. Any organisation that wants to run this as self-paced learning; suitable for employees at any level.
What learners take away
- Describe what changes in the move from individual contributor to manager and recognise the five traps of the transition.
- Plan a structured listening tour and stakeholder map for the first 30 days.
- Set up a one-to-one rhythm, manage the former-peer transition, and agree day-90 success measures with their own manager.
- Set clear expectations, delegate at the right level of the five-level ladder, and give early feedback using the situation-behaviour-impact structure.
- Select an early win that builds credibility with the team rather than at its expense.
- Leave with a written 30-60-90 day plan containing names, dates and first conversations.
Course outline
What changes at promotion: the move from personal output to team output, the five traps that catch new managers, and why a performance dip is part of every transition.
The first 30 days as diagnosis: a structured listening tour, a stakeholder map, and the discipline of holding back solutions until the picture is complete.
How trust actually forms: one-to-ones as the core management rhythm, the former-peer transition, contracting with your own manager, and making it safe for people to bring you problems. The case study sits at the centre of this module.
The clarity toolkit: expectations statements, a five-level delegation ladder, and early feedback with the situation-behaviour-impact structure — all practised on participants' real tasks and real people.
What makes a first win credible, the three wins that backfire, and a five-question filter applied first to the case study and then to participants' own teams.
Each participant assembles the day's outputs into a 30-60-90 plan with names, dates and first conversations, tests it on a partner, and commits to one action for their first week back.
What you get
SCORM 1.2 package
A self-contained course you upload straight to your LMS — no installation, no dependencies.
Completion tracking
Reports status and completion back to your LMS like any SCORM course.
Scenario-based
Learners make real decisions inside a workplace story and see what each choice costs.
Per-organisation license
Host it for unlimited internal learners — one-time purchase, no per-seat or renewal fees.
The license in one sentence
Buy once and host the course on your own LMS for unlimited internal learners — no per-seat and no renewal fees. You may not resell or redistribute the SCORM package itself. Full license terms
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