Level-Up

From Manager to Leader

By: Revela Group

Narrated by: Joe Brogie

Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Great leaders inspire action. Gear up, we’ll help you become a great manager!

For over 30 years, we’ve watched as companies promote employees into management roles. One day, the employees are welding or entering data into a spreadsheet; and the next day, they have a team of people to lead. But nothing changed except their title. We assume that because they are technically competent people with good intentions, they will be successful in their new role. But being technically competent has very little to do with managing and leading a team.

During the first months in management, they will do their best. They will try to manage and lead based upon what they have seen modeled from their previous leaders, picking and choosing what they like and don’t like. They will probably try a lot of things. They might ruffle a few feathers along the way. And after time, they’ll settle into a routine of surviving.

For a long time, this is how most people were promoted into management. Promoting people into roles, regardless of their skills, and then assuming they’ll figure it out - eventually.

It is with this premise the team at Revela has captured several of the core areas necessary for leading people. While there are many more chapters that could be included, this book outlines the basics of communication, difficult conversations, delegating, managing time, building a team, and developing people. Starting with the belief that managers and employees have good intentions and want to be successful, we have provided a structure to help build confidence and create the foundation for success.

Imagine a future where newly promoted managers are given tools, resources, training, and feedback on how to be more effective early in their new role. Or one where these tools were provided before employees are even promoted. This book puts a fresh spin on management practices and challenges "the way we’ve always done it."

Managing and leading takes practice. Just like learning the skills that create expert technicians, managers and leaders must be given what it takes to be successful. And then they must intentionally practice and hone those new skills so they can be experts in their new role.

Along with other books by Revela, Level-Up was created to provide individuals and companies a guide to help their people be more successful, no matter their role. Level-Up uses research and processes to help people get information into their long-term memory. Employees are then able to pull that information when they need it, and not just to pass a test.

At Revela, we believe employees, those who manage others and those who don’t, have the right to be successful. And companies need the best resources to help them. This book uses the knowledge and experiences we’ve gained over 30 years of working with leaders at all levels, in multiple different industries.

Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Revela is one of the region’s most experienced thought challengers, helping individual and companies across the country unleash their potential. Revela’s passion is fueled by positive experiences and individual growth. With a belief in relationships, community, supporting others, and delivering business results, Revela goes beyond the expected to benefit the collective cause. Fully authentic and down to earth, Revela’s confidence and pride stems from the positive change in others.

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