New Manager Mentoring Groups
Are you new to a management role or aspiring to move into one in the future? Are you wondering how to lead people to meet organizational goals while also effectively performing your role? Do you know how to coach, give feedback, uphold accountability, and support other people’s career paths? Are you considering how this path connects to your mid-career and life goals?
New Manager Mentoring Groups are for those who are grappling with these questions and thinking about how to grow both personally and professionally. Over a series of facilitated conversations you will discuss:
- Models of effective management
- Coaching for performance management
- Giving feedback and upholding accountability
- Creating a personal network to help advise your career and life decisions
- Transforming entry-level skills and strengths into strategic management abilities
- What it means to be a successful manager in the new world of work
- What a management role means for you, both personally and professionally
- Clarifying who you are in mid-career and what you want to keep, and what you want to let go of, to move forward
- Leveraging your skills, experience, and strengths to identify what’s next, for you
Curious about joining a group?
Here are the important details:
- Open to Undergraduate Alumni who identify as management or aspiring to a management-level position in the near future
- Participants are expected to attend all meetings
- Cost to join in-person groups is $100, which includes books and other materials, 1:1 coaching, and 5 dinners.
REGISTRATION CLOSES JANUARY 4TH
Together with a small group of committed Wake Forest alumni, you will discuss books, articles, videos, and podcasts to inform your thinking; share strategies and feedback; and receive one-on-one coaching, so that you may identify strengths and key areas of growth to move to the next level for you personally and professionally.
Mentoring groups are deep-dive, facilitated, professional development opportunities. Participants are expected to attend all meetings. These groups are open to alumni who graduated from the Undergraduate College only, and who identify as new to management or aspiring to a management-level position in the near future. In addition to the group experience you’ll get individual coaching along the way and leave with an action plan for what’s next for you.
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New Manager Meetings
All meetings will be held in person at the Wake Washington Center.
January 20, 2027
February 17, 2027
March 17, 2027
April 21, 2027
May 19, 2027
Group Meeting Times: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Cost: $100. Food, books, and 1:1 coaching will be provided.
“I gained personal insight on my professional values and goals, while also learning specific skills for improving my management (and potential management) of others as well as how to strengthen my current relationship with my own manager.”
Prior Mentoring Group Participant