Management Essentials: Critical Skills Every Early Career Manager Needs
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build a Strong Management Foundation in Just Two Weeks
Management Essentials: Critical Skills Every Early Career Manager Needs
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build a Strong Management Foundation in Just Two Weeks
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Course overview
Transform Your Leadership Journey
High Impact, Two-Week Course
Designed specifically for those early in their leadership journey who need a jump start in developing the critical fundamental skills that make the difference between struggling and succeeding. This course goes beyond the basics, equipping you with proven frameworks, interactive practice, and real-world application so you can implement with confidence from day one.
Why This Matters Now More Than Ever
According to Bloomberg, 30% of current white-collar layoffs are middle management positions. The dramatic flattening of organizational hierarchies has created a critical challenge in today's workplace. With fewer management layers, those who remain in leadership positions face unprecedented pressure to deliver results while supporting larger, more diverse teams.
This shift has significantly impacted crucial coaching, feedback, and professional development functions. Employees are receiving less support precisely when they need more guidance to handle their expanded responsibilities. The management skills gap has never been more apparent—or more costly.
Designed and Led by Industry Executives
Learn directly from seasoned executives who have built, scaled, and managed high-performing global teams at Google, Microsoft, PayPal and other innovative companies. They bring their real-world expertise, teaching experience at Stanford University, and executive coaching. The curriculum is grounded in management research and tailored to address the common challenges faced by early career managers. As leadership coaches and educators, they will share the same tools, frameworks, and strategies they use with their clients at leading tech firms (e.g., Google, Meta, OpenAI), startups, universities, and government organizations - empowering you to lead with confidence, clarity, and impact.
Start Your Management Journey Right
Avoid costly mistakes that most early career managers make. Build a solid foundation with proven fundamentals that will serve you throughout your career.
Not designed for: Experienced managers or executives seeking advanced leadership development
Who is this course for
01
Team lead recently promoted from individual contributor. Struggling with managing former peers and providing constructive feedback.
02
New manager who wants to up-level the team's performance. Seeking structure for team meetings and 1:1s while balancing operational demands.
03
Manager with 1-3 years of experience. Has challenges with high stakes conversation, delegation, and navigating stakeholders.
What you’ll get out of this course
The Managerial Mindset & What Makes a Good Manager
Explores what truly differentiates a great manager from a strong individual contributor, focusing on the challenges and opportunities that come with leading through others.
Managing Self: Mental Fitness to Sustain Peak Performance
Cultivate the internal capabilities that fuel great leadership—self-awareness, mental resilience, and the ability to manage your energy rather than just your time.
Managing Your Time & Building Effective Teams
Learn practical strategies to optimize your productivity and create high-performing teams
Effective Team Meetings & Re-imagining 1:1s
How to transform meetings from obligatory rituals into high-impact moments that drive clarity, connection, and accountability.
Managing Feedback Loops: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Master both giving and receiving feedback to create a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety, and high performance.
Unlock AI As Your Leadership Thought Partner
Go beyond efficiency - user AI to spark creativity, deepen team engagement, make smarter decisions, and lead with greater impact.
This course includes
8 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
30 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
5 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Management Essentials: Critical Skills Every Early Career Manager Needs
Course syllabus
Week 1
Apr
28
Session 1 - The Managerial Mindset & What Makes a Good Manager
The Managerial Mindset & What Makes a Good Manager
Apr
29
Session 2 - Managing Self: Mental Fitness to Sustain Peak Performance
Managing Self: Mental Fitness to Sustain Peak Performance
May
1
Session 3 - Managing Your Time & Building Effective Teams
Managing Your Time & Building Effective Teams
May
1
Optional: Office Hours
Week 2
May
5
Session 4 - Effective Team Meetings & The Importance of 1:1s
Effective Team Meetings & The Importance of 1:1s
May
6
Session 5 - Managing Feedback Loops: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Managing Feedback Loops: Giving and Receiving Feedback
May
8
Session 6 - AI, Final Reflections, & Path Forward
AI, Final Reflections, & Path Forward
May
8
Optional: Office Hours
Bonus
Manager Toolkit
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Meet your instructors
Mo Fong
Stanford Adj Lecturer | Ex-Google & PayPal
Mo’s extensive coaching and consulting practice focuses on assessing and rooting out destructive friction and to navigate challenges with greater agility. She has experience in building effective teams, leading through crisis and change management, and scaling for excellence.
Mo is an adjunct lecturer with Stanford Management Science and Engineering and is a leadership coach at Harvard Business School. Mo has served as the ED at STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15 years at Google as a Sr. Director leading global teams in Google Technical Solutions, Financial Operations and People Operations. Mo is the founder of Friction Fixers, dedicated to making work better by rooting out destructive organizational friction while planting good friction. She is also the founder of LeiFongCoaching, LLC and is the President and founding member of the Asian Women Coaching Collective.
Stanford University: BS, ChemE and MA, Edu, Harvard Business School, MBA
Anita Yuen
Product Executive | Ex-Google & Microsoft
Anita is a product management executive with extensive experience driving innovation and growth across tech industry leaders and startups. Her career includes product leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, and various startups.
Over 17 years at Google, Anita built impactful consumer and business products across multiple divisions including Google Search, Maps, Shopping, and Kids & Families. She led high-performing product and marketing teams, developed successful leadership programs, and served on hiring and promotion committees to invest in top talent. Anita was a 3-time executive award recipient and received two prestigious Webby awards.
Currently, Anita coaches leaders and provides strategic consulting and advisory services to early-stage companies.
Anita holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she was also a Mayfield Fellow. She also holds a AI Product Management certificate from Duke University.
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Management Essentials: Critical Skills Every Early Career Manager Needs
Cohort Andes
$950
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Course schedule
4-5 hours per week
Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
Optional office hours on Thursdays 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST
April 28 - May 8, 2025
Elevate your management skills in just 2 weeks
Weekly projects and practice sessions
Learn through hands-on practice and projects
Energy Assessment
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Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
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Management Essentials: Critical Skills Every Early Career Manager Needs
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