How to Transition to Management: The Most Important Promotion of Your Life

For many employees, the promotion from individual contributor to their first managerial role is the most important promotion of their lives. What does it take to set yourself up for and successfully make this transition?
Join Cornell lecturer and technical entrepreneur Dirk Swart for a brisk conversation on how to elevate your managerial and business acumen to guide yourself toward a lucrative and fulfilling career.

What You'll Learn

• The “rules of the game” to successfully make the transition to management
• How to position yourself to increase the chances that you will be promoted
• What you need to be successful as a junior manager

Resources

• “Staying in the Game or Changing It,” by Deborah Kolb

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