From Doer to Leader Leadership skills for first time managers
Lead former peers, communicate with impact, delegate for real and run the work with a
clear rhythm. Practiced on your own team, with AI in every module.
FORMAT
Hands-on workshop, 18 hours
FLEXIBLE
2 days, 4 half days or 6 Saturdays
FOLLOW-UP
90 days of support
COVERAGE
9 modules, 4 pillars
The Problem
Your best individual contributor becomes a manager overnight. Left alone, they fall back on
what worked before: doing the work instead of leading it, avoiding the hard conversation, and managing former peers like friends. It is a skills
gap, not a character flaw.
Success is no longer how much you
finish yourself. It is what becomes
possible through your team.
Formats
Who it is for
- First-time managers and new team leads, in their first two years
- Teams in technology, product, engineering and professional services
- High potentials about to take on their first team
- Anyone ready to practice on their real team
Who it is not for
- Managers of managers. See From Manager to Senior Leader
- Anyone after a certificate or exam preparation
- People who want theory rather than practice
- Teams wanting a one-off motivational talk
What you will learn
Four pillars, pitched for a first-time manager
Everything focuses on what you can change with your own team from Monday morning. AI is not a
separate topic. It runs underneath all four.
Leadership: multiply what your team can do
TRANSFORMATION
Leading change,
starting with you
- Shift from doing to leading
- Adapt when priorities move
- A dated 30/60/90 day plan
PEOPLE
Leading yourself and those around you
- Communicate up and down
- Listen, coach and delegate
- Stay calm under pressure
- Influence without authority
CULTURE
The unwritten rules
your team lives by
- A team V2MOM
- A working agreement people keep
- Safety to speak up
PROCESS
How work flows and
improves
- Measures that matter
- Planning and team rhythm
- A value stream sketch
- Small Lean experiments
Everything focuses on what you can change with your own team from Monday morning. AI is not a
separate topic. It runs underneath all four.
How Every Module Runs
Not a training.A hands-on workshop.
You work on what you are facing right now, apply it at work, and bring back what happened.
01
A real situation
A moment you already
know from your own
week.
02
A practical tool
A simple test you can
run in your head next
time.
03
Live practice
Rehearse in pairs, on
your own case, with
feedback.
04
One action
A dated, checkable
step for this week.
IT STARTS WITH YOU
Every programme opens with the people in the room: a light icebreaker, your
hopes and concerns, and a working agreement the group writes together.
Three well known methods are used at team level and fully credited: V2MOM, created by Marc Benioff at Salesforce; Lean
Startup thinking, from Eric Ries; and value stream mapping, from the Toyota tradition.
The Nine Modules
Nine modules,a template from each
The orange tags show the template you take from each module, filled in with your own team’s
details.
From Doing to Leading
Make the identity shift, lead former peers and protect your time.
AI sorts your calendar. You decide what is really yours.
Calendar Audit
Communication That Lands
Speak one way to leadership and another to your team.
AI drafts your update. You find the line that matters.
Calendar Audit
Measure What Matters
Agree what success looks like and drop vanity
metrics.
AI drafts your team V2MOM. You make it true.
Team V2MOM
Listening That Builds Trust
Hear what is not said and agree norms your team keeps.
Prepare one-on-one questions with AI, never during.
One-on-One Guide
Working Agreement
Emotional Intelligence in Practice
Catch your triggers and respond instead of
reacting.
Rehearse a tense conversation, then practice the pause.
Pause Plan
Delegation, Coaching, Hard Conversations
Hand off for real, ask instead of answer, give
feedback early.
AI turns your notes into a delegation brief.
Delegation Planner
Feedback Prep
Managing Up and Sideways
Earn cooperation from your manager and from
peer teams.
AI drafts a stakeholder brief. You add what it cannot know.
Stakeholder Map
Leading in a Changing Environment
Plan when priorities shift, see the flow, run small experiments.
AI drafts a backlog item. You check it is small and testable.
Value Stream Sketch
Planning Sheet
Your 30/60/90 Day Plan
A few weeks later, turn your eight weekly actions into one dated plan and share it with your manager.
AI stress-tests your plan. You decide what survives.
30/60/90 Day Plan
Prompt Library
Also in your workbook: a Shift Card for every module, the AI Check Card and a Team Pulse for before and day 90.
The same 16 hours,three ways
Two full days
Eight modules in two days,
then the capstone a few
weeks later. Best when a
team can step away
together.
Four half days
Two modules a session, a
week or two apart, so people
apply each pair before the
next.
Six Saturdays
One session a week for six
weeks. The most hand- holding: practice all week,
refine on Saturday.
Then 90 days of support
- A WhatsApp circle with a weekly practice prompt and room for questions
- A group call every two weeks to review each 30/60/90 plan
- One-to-one coaching for anyone who wants to go deeper
How we know it worked
- Ten self-ratings before, at the end and at day 90
- A three-question team pulse before and at day 90
- A short briefing for each participant’s manager
- A short briefing for each participant’s manager
IT STARTS WITH YOU
Every programme opens with the people in the room: a light icebreaker, your hopes and concerns, and a working agreement the group writes together.
Your Facilitator
Sriharsha Sriram
ICF PCC Certified Executive Coach. 28+ years leading
business transformation at Visa, PayPal, Standard
Chartered, Clarivate and SANRIA Engineering. 1,000+
professionals trained.