It’s the great American success story. The typical route to management is a steady climb up through the ranks.

That’s both good news and bad news.

Most managers and supervisors come from among the most highly skilled and technically competent individual contributors in your organization. Promoted on the basis of their performance excellence, now, for the first time in their careers, they may find themselves struggling.

The cause? Most have had little or no formal preparation for their new role as manager.

Acorn Learning and Development’s customized Supervisory Skills and Management Development Forums are designed to offer benefits in five separate domains:

• Skill-building through engaging workshops and action learning experiences
• Personal awareness through self-assessment profiles and 360° assessments
• Networking with peers to develop a strengthened support system
• Guided application of new skills in their actual workplace challenges through a process improvement project
• One-on-one coaching to heighten self-awareness and performance potential