First-Line Managers Sprint
Have your technically capable people recently become managers?
This First-Line Managers Leadership Development Sprint builds technical and subject matter experts into effective leaders who can confidently manage others, strengthen team performance and deliver results.
What Will Change?
By developing supervisory leadership skills, managers can expand their specialist prowess into applied first-line management acumen, evolving from individual contributors into leaders of other people.
Ideal Participants
First-line managers, junior managers, team leaders and supervisors with at least 1 year of management experience
Build confident managers who can lead people, not just tasks.
Sprint Outcomes
- Execute operational and project plans
- Lead through change
- Make decisions under pressure
- Improve workflow and service
5 Focused Sprint Pathways
01Foundation
- ½ day — Micro-Sprint 1: Systems Thinking
- ½ day — Micro-Sprint 2: Strategic Thinking (level appropriate)
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 3: Design Thinking
- Learning LAB: 1 hour per group of learning to leading coaching
- Boot Camp #1: 2 x 30 minutes individual coaching per individual (optional)
- Assessment: Business Integrated Initiative (SBI Bii)
02The Changing Business Environment
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 4: The Brain@Work
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 5: Understanding the Changing Business Environment
- Learning LAB: 1 hour per group of learning to leading coaching
- Boot Camp #2: 2 x 30 minutes individual coaching per individual (optional)
- Assessment: Business Integrated Initiative (SBI Bii)
03The Power Within
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 6: The Power of ME
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 7: Leading and Managing High Performing Teams
- Learning LAB: 1 hour per group of learning to leading coaching
- Boot Camp #3: 2 x 30 minutes individual coaching per individual (optional)
- Assessment: Business Integrated Initiative (SBI Bii)
04Operational Excellence
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 8: Leading and Managing Operational Excellence
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 9: Fundamentals of Project Management
- Learning LAB: 1 hour per group of learning to leading coaching
- Boot Camp #4: 2 x 30 minutes individual coaching per individual (optional)
- Assessment: Business Integrated Initiative (SBI Bii)
05Business Fundamentals
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 10: Business Mathematics
- 1-day — Micro-Sprint 11: Managing Customer Relationships
- Learning LAB: 1 hour per group of learning to leading coaching
- Boot Camp #5: 2 x 30 minutes individual coaching per individual (optional)
- Assessment: Business Integrated Initiative (SBI Bii)
Certificate of completion · Pricing based on client scope and size of team
Why Choose a Sprint?
This is corporate leadership development that's grounded in neuroscience and designed for speed, flexibility and measurable business results.
Report immediate improvement in decision-making and team performance*
Leaders can apply new thinking and tools
Individual Micro-Sprints (½ day–1 day) or Full Sprint Pathways (up to 3 days) to suit any calendar
Mix and match to fit busy schedules without losing momentum or learning continuity
Each level targets the Leadership SHIFTS that are most relevant to the specific team
*Based on participant feedback surveys
Post-Sprint Measurement
Presentations
"How I applied my insights"
3-Month Check-In
Measuring what has SHIFTed
Final Learning LAB
Close out
Ready to develop your First-Line Managers?
Need more than a Sprint?
Our leadership programmes combine multiple sprints into comprehensive development journeys lasting several months.