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 effectively lead people to meet organizational goals while still effectively performing your role? Do you know how to coach, give feedback, uphold accountability, and support other people’s career paths?
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 a management role means for you, both personally and professionally
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 a group is $50, which includes books and other materials, and 1:1 coaching
- Atlanta and NYC groups will meet in person over dinner.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Registration closes December 6th, 2024.
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.
February 11
March 11
April 15
May 20
Group Meeting Times: 6:30-8:30pm ET, Tuesdays
Cost: $50
*Food will be provided.
February 12
March 12
April 16
May 14
Group Meeting Times: 6:30-8:30 pm ET, Wednesdays
Cost: $50
*Food will be provided.
Online
New Manager Meetings
All of these meetings will be held on Zoom.
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 20
March 6
March 27
April 10
April 24
May 8
Group Meeting Times: 12-1pm ET, Thursdays
Cost: $50
Don’t take our word for it – here’s what past participants thought about their group experiences!
“This was so much better than any professional development conference or training. It was real-time conversation about what we are actually going through.”
2018-19 Group Participant
“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.”
2019-20 Group Participant
“This group was so incredible informational and beneficial for me as I was stepping into the role of becoming a manager of employees and staff at my current career.”
2019-20 Group Participant