AI for New Managers: Essential Leadership Skills
What you'll learn
- How to shift from “doing the work” to “managing the work,” both with AI and with humans
- How to handle new manager use cases: developing top performers, giving challenging feedback, and letting someone go
- How to build influence and relationships across your company
- How to define and communicate your leadership presence and brand
Requirements
- A desire to learn and practice the non-technical skills of being a manager
Description
Stepping into management is one of the biggest transitions in your career. You were promoted because you were great at doing the work, but now your job is to lead people, set direction, and communicate with clarity. Most new managers are left to figure it out on the job. This course gives you a safe place to practice, experiment, and build confidence — with the help of AI.
In AI for New Managers: Essential Leadership Skills, you’ll learn how to shift from individual contributor thinking to true leadership. You’ll use AI as your practice ground to draft updates, role-play tough conversations, and test your leadership messages before you share them with real people. Together, you’ll explore the fundamentals: delegating effectively, managing up and across the organization, building trust through influence, and handling challenging moments like giving feedback, navigating conflict, or coaching someone who’s stuck.
You’ll also go deeper into defining who you want to be as a leader. Through guided exercises, you’ll clarify your leadership presence, articulate your values, and craft micro-stories that express your brand in a way that feels authentic. And in the final section, you’ll learn how to build your own AI coach to support continuous improvement, helping you reflect, experiment, and grow well beyond this course.
Whether you’ve just become a manager or want to prepare for a future role, this course gives you the skills, practice, and confidence to lead with clarity, trust, and humanity.
Who this course is for:
- New managers who want to build essential leadership skills quickly
- Aspiring managers who want to show they are ready for promotion
- Individual Contributors (ICs) who are curious about management and want to try it out before committing
Instructor
Tutti Taygerly speaks on leadership and innovation bringing a unique blend of her 22 years experience in Silicon Valley and her current focus as a leadership expert. She coaches cofounders and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact and a sustainable company culture. She guides “others” who never felt like they belonged in a professional setting — including women, people of color, immigrants and the neurodiverse — to confidently share their voices with the world. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Meta.
She has given two TEDx talks, spoken at SxSW, and for numerous companies including Google, Stripe, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Doordash. Tutti writes for Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and Fast Company and her book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work. She’s currently bewitched with her second book on leading when you feel like an "other."
Tutti grew up in seven countries on three continents and is settled in San Francisco as her home base. She spends her time parenting two teen girls, obsessively reading, and paddling out for the next wave.