Management Skills For New Managers – Course Materials For Trainers (20–30 Hours Prep Saved).

We noticed that many newly promoted managers were thrown into leadership roles without any guidance — they knew the responsibilities, but lacked the skills to lead, communicate, or manage teams effectively.

New managers and HR teams told us they needed a reliable training path to build foundational management skills.

So we created the Management Skills for New Managers course: a ready-to-deliver, editable program that gives trainers a solid framework to help new managers run teams confidently — without spending 20–30 hours building materials from scratch.

This comprehensive pack gives you everything you need to run an engaging and impactful training course on management fundamentals — editable slides, participant workbook, trainer guide, practical activities and follow-through tools.

You’ll walk into your training courses fully prepared, confident, and ready to make a difference.

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The Brands Our Material Support.

What This Training Material Makes Possible.

For participants

They’ll accelerate their transition into management by mastering key skills like setting clear direction, motivating and engaging their team, communicating with impact, delegating with purpose, and handling performance – day one onward. Expect stronger team alignment, early wins, and elevated managerial presence.

For you, the trainer

You’ll deliver a polished, high-impact session without the heavy lift of content creation. You can customize examples and scenarios to your audience’s context, focus your energy on facilitation and connection, and get the room moving rather than stuck in slides.

For the organization

You’ll embed a baseline of management capability that supports higher performance, better retention, improved productivity and smoother leadership transitions — building stronger foundations for managers who follow.

What’s Included In The Pack.

Editable Slide Deck

A full customizable presentation you can deliver right out of the box or tailor it to your audience.

Trainer Guide

A detailed manual covering timing, discussion prompts, activity instructions and adaptation options for different group sizes, delivery formats or blended scenarios.

Participant Workbook

Editable workbook pages participants use during the session and afterward. Includes self-reflection prompts, action-planning sheets, practical exercises and peer discussion tasks.

Activities & Scenarios

We encourage you to add company-specific and hands-on exercises that bring the content to life.

Follow-Through Tools

If required add extra action-planning templates, checklists for new managers, habit-building prompts and reflection worksheets designed so the learning doesn’t end at session close but becomes part of ongoing practice.

Designed for Any Delivery Format

Whether you’re delivering the program in-person, online, hybrid or blended, this pack adapts effortlessly. Included guidance supports breakout rooms, virtual whiteboards, in-room facilitation and post-session follow-through.

Why Trainers Choose Our Pack.

You save 20–30 hours of prep time because the complete program is ready to deploy.

It’s fully editable and flexible — customize branding, adjust examples, tailor modules for your audience.

It’s simple to deliver — you focus on impact, engagement and behavior change, not content creation.

It works for organizations of all sizes — used by internal L&D teams, external trainers and consultants alike who work with new managers.

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Ideal For.

Trainers and facilitators delivering programs for newly promoted managers or team leads.

L&D teams rolling out internal management development tracks for emerging leaders.

Coaches working with first-time managers or new management cohorts on foundational skills.

HR, talent development or operations professionals seeking a ready-to-use training solution to build management capability across the organization.

Topics Covered.

Foundations of Effective Management

• Exploring the core principles of effective management — the building blocks that support every successful organization.
• Understanding how organizational structure, division of labor, and control span shape communication, accountability, and results.
• Learning how structure supports flexibility — balancing clear hierarchy with empowered autonomy.
• Discover how strong managerial foundations help teams work smarter, stay aligned, and perform at their peak.
• Build the confidence to make structure serve strategy, not the other way around.

Mastering Management Theories

• Dive into the evolution of management thought, tracing how modern leadership practices were built on decades of insight and innovation.
• Exploring the Scientific Management principles of Frederick Taylor — precision, process, and performance.
• Understanding Henri Fayol’s classical management framework and Max Weber’s organizational theory — order, consistency, and control.
• Examine how the Hawthorne Studies reshaped thinking around motivation, behavior, and morale.
• Discover the rise of the Human Relations Theory — the shift toward empathy, collaboration, and emotional intelligence in management.
• Learning how these foundational theories still influence today’s hybrid, human-centered workplaces.

Systems Thinking and Contingency Management

• Defining the core management roles within an organization — from planning and organizing to leading and controlling.
• Learning how these functions align to create momentum, accountability, and results.
• Develop strategies for setting and achieving organizational objectives that are clear, measurable, and meaningful.
• Apply systems thinking to navigate complexity — understanding how departments, people, and processes interconnect.
• Exploring contingency management — how adaptable leaders tailor their style and strategy to fit unique challenges and changing conditions.
• Leave with a toolkit for managing with both structure and flexibility — the ultimate balance for modern leadership.

Building High-Performance Teams in the 21st Century

• Compare and contrast 20th- and 21st-century management models, and Learning what high-performing teams look like today.
• Exploring how technology, collaboration, and culture are redefining leadership in a fast-changing world.
• Learning strategies for building and leading teams that are engaged, empowered, and accountable.
• Apply effective communication techniques to foster collaboration, trust, and inclusion.
• Mastering conflict resolution methods that strengthen relationships and fuel innovation.
• Develop motivational strategies that inspire performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding how today’s leaders create alignment, not control — building teams that thrive through connection and shared purpose.

How You’ll Use This Pack.

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Open the slide deck, workbook and trainer guide in your favorite software.

Customize branding, tweak examples, adjust module sequence if you like.

Deliver with confidence, guide your participants through the transition into management and watch team performance and leadership capability improve.

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Success Stories.

At Oak Innovation, we believe learning starts with people. For over 30 years, our practical, ready-to-use leadership development training kits have empowered teams and leaders worldwide to grow, adapt, and lead with confidence.

Excellent work. Rafiq Jaffer of The Institute of Social Sciences can’t wait to implement Oak Innovation’s materials in their upcoming programs.

Ron Bates of Warwick Plumbing and Heating Corporation has used Oak Innovation’s course twice already — and each time, participant feedback has been fantastic.

Ron Kelly of Kelly Partnership says that the training course material is a must-have for modern learning. Oak Innovation’s course is timely, practical, and so relevant right now.

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