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Content Overview
As a first time-manager, you will need a new set of communication skills to motivate and inspire your team. Some of the most critical skills include: setting effective goals, diagnosing motivation problems, providing feedback, reinforcing good performance, correcting undesired behaviour and resolving conflicts. Research suggests that mastering interpersonal skills early in your career can create a lasting effect on your reputation and ability as a leader.
Mastering these aspects of effective management requires an experiential rather than just a conceptual approach to learning and development – actively engaging in role plays, peer feedback, case discussions and team exercises.
Designed with your training needs in mind, Learning to Lead focuses on four key managerial roles.

Director
- Set effective goals and expectations within your team
- Translate organisational vision and strategy into individual action plans for your team
- Examine the benefits and limits of goal setting

Motivator
- Learn tools and techniques to analyse motivation problems
- Leverage reward systems
- Manage high and low performers effectively

Enabler
- Diagnose performance problems
- Provide constructive feedback
- Effectively resolve conflicts

Coach
- Provide effective coaching and development
- Assess individual capabilities and team contributions
- Leverage team diversity and build team spirit
- Chart your leadership future