Get The New Manager Success Toolkit

The skills that made you excellent as an individual contributor are not the same skills that will make you excellent as a manager.

Your technical expertise, your speed, your personal output; those things got you here. But leading people requires a different kind of excellence: developing others, building a functional team, having honest conversations, setting clear expectations, and creating an environment where humans can do their best work. That excellence is learnable. This toolkit is how. A practical, 10-chapter workbook covering the most critical domains of first-year management:

• The mindset and identity work of the transition itself

• What to stop, start, and do differently from your IC role

• Setting expectations that actually hold

• Giving feedback people can act on (with the SBI framework)

• Managing performance; from goal-setting to underperformance

• Having the difficult conversations your role now requires

• Building trust through the small, daily behaviors that compound

• Managing your time and priorities so you can lead effectively

• Building team culture deliberately, not by default

• A structured 90-day plan with month-by-month milestones

  Created by Tonya Richards, PHR, SHRM-CP, CHHR - Founder of Restless Excellence™ and an HR strategist with over two decades of experience developing managers and leaders across industries. Instant PDF download. Built to be written in, returned to, and used in real time as challenges arise.

  Bonus: Perfect for HR leaders looking for a structured new manager onboarding resource.