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.
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