People Management for Emerging Leaders

Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In People Management for Emerging Leaders, you will:

• Learn management nuts and bolts, from hiring to project management to legal issues
• Avoid costly common managers’ pitfalls
• Understand the implications of transitioning from individual contributor to manager
• Explore how to unify and motivate your team toward common objectives
• Leverage both your formal authority and informal interactions
• Become skilled at managing interpersonal conflicts and having difficult conversations
• Identify your motivators and your team's through self-assessment
• Understand the balance between achieving results and cultural considerations

Experience and Impact

Thriving as a manager involves a paradigm shift. You must continuously be achieving success through your team’s contributions. Fueled by the research of Wharton People Analytics, People Management for Emerging Leaders guides you through every aspect of that transformation — practical, interpersonal, psychological, legal, and ethical — so you are fully prepared to master your management role.

The program begins by introducing you to the imperatives of management: achieving self-awareness; hiring, retaining, and developing your talent; and delegation, motivation, and job satisfaction. From there, sessions shed light on the critical importance of successful project management, offering practical strategies and methods.

Content will then transition to an examination of how your actions impact your organization’s legal standing and reputation and how to assure you set the right legal boundaries. You will learn to handle potential issues such as discrimination, sexual harassment, and misconduct. Wharton management faculty will lead you through an exploration of challenging conversational opportunities with your direct reports. Additional sessions will delve into incentive systems and rewards, special considerations for managing remote teams, and across cultures, the role of AI in coaching and managing, and utilizing effective communication and persuasion techniques.

Filled with live online and interactive experiences to personalize your learning, this program will truly help you understand each facet of what it means to assume authority and responsibility for others.

Session topics include:

• Stepping Up: The Imperatives
• Succeeding Through Others
• Out of Trouble: Legal Boundaries
• Managing a Distributed and Diverse Team
• Exploring the Key Pillars of Projects’ Success
• Communication Strategies for Challenging Situations
• Reflection and Integration

Convince Your Supervisor

Here’s a justification letter you can edit and send to your supervisor to help you make the case for attending this Wharton program.

Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.