Managers are highly trained in different business skills but there is a clear gap in building team management capabilities. Managers are normally learning by doing and this is bringing a lot of inefficiency in high-speed organizations. Regardless of company using agile or waterfall organization, new leaders will always have to learn how to manage people with more experience than them, blue collars, people with different cultures and more and more how to manage people with no solid line report.
Companies are historically underestimating the need of developing people management capabilities among their talented people pipeline which is causing high potential people to fail when they must lead teams for the first time. Capabilities needed to manage teams in different situations and with different targets takes longer to be developed than technical skills and those companies with strong focus will have a clear competitive advantage. People development is normally in every large corporation vision and mission statement but there is not a clear plan in this respect. This seminar is pretending to give a helicopter view of what students will face in their near future so they can start preparing themselves in what kind of manager they want to be.