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Manager Development Program: Your Role as a Manager

Who Should Enroll?

This program benefits supervisors and managers at Tulane in any of the following roles:

  • All current managers with supervisory responsibilities, including hiring, onboarding, and performance management
  • Any manager with at least one direct report
  • All newly promoted and newly hired supervisors and managers
  • Managers of managers
  • Leaders of a division or functional area

Your Role as a Manager

The primary role of a manager is to foster excellent performance that supports individual and organizational needs. This is essential to maintaining Tulane’s core values of Inspiring Excellence and Leading for a Better Tomorrow. Manager responsibilities are multifaceted, as shown below, and include participating in a number of capacities.

Manager responsibilities across four roles
Communicator
Coach & Mentor
Leader
Motivator
  • Understand policies to navigate the environment
  • Give and ask for feedback
  • Be welcoming
  • Communicate changes
  • Provide development opportunities
  • Be open to ideas and encourage innovation
  • Make connections to the organization
  • Be a role model
  • Remove barriers and provide support
  • Reward performance
  • Build employee engagement