Orientation to Life as a Senior Manager
The Client Need
"We needed a global program to provide a consistent approach to setting expectations for our senior-level professionals entering a Senior-Manager (pre-Partner) phase in their careers, setting them up for success in this challenging period."
- Fortune 100 Firm
The Design
A 2.5-day, immersive experience – live or Zoom – in which learners experience firsthand what it’s like to be a Senior Manager, including handling multiple engagements, managing teams, delivering challenging news to clients, and shifting their mindset from Senior Manager to Partner.
Audience: New Senior Managers
Skills in Focus: Handling multiple engagements; building trust-based client relationships; collaborating with experts; thinking like a Partner
Features: The Socratic Arts award-winning Dynamic Scene Adapter™; Instructor-Led Training (ILT/vILT)
The Details
Learners are dropped into two engagements and must think like a Partner, meet with clients, manage diverse teams, and incorporate experts into work.
Engagements require difficult decisions, prioritizing where to place attention when multiple clients, team members, and firm leaders have needs.
Role-play meetings and emails help learners shift to a better awareness and understanding of differing expert-based, problem-driven approaches in terms of team structure, engagement approaches, timelines, and tools.
