4-Part Manager Mastery Series 2025-2026: ChatGPT, New Management Skills, Strategic Thinking & Feedback Excellence

Part-1

ChatGPT for HR in 2025: What can ChatGPT Do for You?

Oct 16, 2025 |  11:00 AM EST | 90 Minutes

Description:-

This highly interactive Webinar offers you and your HR team an array of practical tools and templates you can use to effectively manage your HR responsibilities.

As ChatGPT evolves and we start to gradually understand it better, HR managers can now perform some of their work duties more effectively using ChatGPT. ChatGPT can help you handle the various processes involved in managing all of your workforce, including onboarding, performance management, interviewing, and so forth.

During our Webinar, we will explore some of the HR management tools available in ChatGPT. These tools can help us manage our work more efficiently and effectively.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

• Understanding how ChatGPT works, especially for conducting your Human Resources Management responsibilities
• Utilizing a variety of HR templates available within ChatGPT
• Scanning a job description for problematic language
• Writing 3 personalized candidate rejection emails
• Quickly pulling keywords for research
• Understanding the recruitment process from the perspective of a hiring manager
• Scenario planning with a department manager.

Why You Should Attend:-

Are you curious how ChatGPT works?

Would you like to understand better how ChatGPT can help you conduct a number of your HR functions more efficiently and effectively?

How about learning a way you can present yourself with greater value to other members of your management team and executives?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our effectiveness at managing the Human Resources function, improving our and our team members’ performance, adding to the bottom-line!

Part-2

Moving From An Operational Manager to A Strategic Leader

Oct 16, 2025 |  12:40 PM EST | 90 Minutes

Description:-

Gain the insights and skills to know where your business stands today and where it’s heading tomorrow.

In today’s unpredictable business environment, strategic leadership is not just for top management alone. It’s for:

• Managers who want to increase their competitive advantage by anticipating their customers’ priorities, needs, and expectations
• Managers who want to distinguish operational data from strategic data, creatively develop sources of information,n and increase their staff’s flexibility and responsiveness
• Managers who want to broaden their perspective, improve flexibility without compromising quality, and increase their department’s value to the organization
• Every manager who wants to anticipate, initiate, and manage change for maximum competitiveness!

If you want to move from being a good manager to being a great manager, you can’t afford to miss this seminar. Strategic leadership is a blending of attributes that every superior manager requires in today’s unpredictable business environment.

Here’s where you’ll learn to anticipate, initiate, and manage change for maximum competitiveness...stay on course while constantly redefining and refocusing your department’s goals in order to hit a moving target...and determine where your unit is headed, as you take into account the multiple groups your decisions will impact.

Prepare to make a transition. Instead of being buried in your department’s ongoing activities, you’ll become an innovator able to add value to your organization, its customers, and stakeholders. This course will provide you with the skills required to move your team or department forward decisively.

Learning Objectives:-

• Crossing the line to strategic effectiveness 
• Learning the strategic leadership approach 
• Vision and strategic leadership 
• Becoming an effective leader 
• Building influence through communication 
• Understanding the role of teams 
• Managing change with action-oriented skills.

Why You Should Attend?

• Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness 
• Add value to your organization by understanding the needs of your customers 
• Anticipate, create, and encourage change 
• Spot opportunities for successful strategic alliances 
• Become an innovative, visionary leader 
• Establish a strategic culture 
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your work unit 
• Keep your unit moving forward 
• Take risks with confidence

Would you like to inspire and direct your team more effectively?

What about being more able to anticipate, create, and encourage change?

How about becoming an innovative, visionary leader?

Would you like your team to improve performance?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen, and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions, and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team members and team’s performance!

Part-3

New Management Skills for New Managers 2025

Oct 16, 2025 |  2:15 PM EST | 90 Minutes

Description:-

New supervisors will be ready to hit the ground running with the skills learned in this webinar. Be ready to take on any challenge, be your best, and put what you’ve learned into practice immediately. 

You will learn the skills you need to plan, prioritize, and execute effectively each and every day. Putting into practice both the “hard stuff” and “soft stuff” will help you meet new challenges with increased confidence, respect, and power. 

One of the toughest parts of a manager’s job is dealing with and turning around problem employees. The solutions aren’t “textbook”, yet in this Webinar, you will gain skills and tools for solving problems and making decisions, especially when dealing with those who challenge you the most.

Areas Covered:-

Setting Yourself Up for Success 

• Understanding your new role as a supervisor  
• Making a change or letting go: Working with the three phases of change  
• Recognizing common challenges and pitfalls to avoid  
• Meeting the expectations of key stakeholders, including your boss, direct reports, senior management, and former peers  

Motivating Others 

• Understanding what motivation is 
• Understanding what motivates each and every one of your direct reports 
• Creating Performance Plans and Professional Development Plans which address individual motivation

Managing Employee Performance 

• Setting SMART goals for yourself and others  
• Using a five-step model to train your employees  
• Giving and receiving supportive and corrective feedback 

Managing Up 

• Understanding and adapting to your manager’s style 
• Anticipating your manager’s needs and fulfilling them
• Developing the best possible relationship with your manager 

Communication Skills

• Demonstrating active listening to show understanding and check the content 
• Asking questions that uncover valuable information and strengthen the relationship 

Great Performance Through Coaching

• Demonstrating giving and receiving feedback constructively
• Assessing your own strengths and development needs as a coach
• Asking questions that increase employees’ self-awareness and accountability 

Delegating Effectively 

• Creating a plan for delegation and using this process to assign key tasks  
• Overcoming your fears of turning over responsibility and authority  

Handling Conflict with Ease  

• Knowing your conflict-handling styles  
• Developing the right conflict approach for each individual and situation  

Managing Your Time 

• Applying the time priority model to workplace tasks  
• Managing and protecting your time to get more of the right things done 

Why Should You Attend:-

By participating, you will be able to do more effectively: 

• Understand how to approach an intact team as their new supervisor 
• Develop your own management game plan 
• Motivate your direct reports  
• Coach for improved performance 
• Think and act strategically 
• Plan and prioritize your time 
• Handle difficult conversations 
• Listen actively and effectively 
• Create a motivational environment using feedback and reinforcement to guide and motivate behavior  
• Effectively deal with “difficult” people 

Would you like to gain and build confidence in your ability to manage effectively? 

What about your ability to motivate others who previously were your peers? 

How about learning a management game plan? 

Would you like your team to improve performance?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen, and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions, and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team members and team’s performance!

Part-4

Do's and Don'ts of Giving Constructive Feedback for Performance Improvement

Oct 16, 2025 |  3:50 PM EST | 90 Minutes

Description:-

Unlock the power of constructive feedback to enhance performance and foster a culture of continuous improvement in your organization.

Join our 90-minute webinar to explore the art of delivering feedback that motivates, supports, and drives better outcomes. This session is designed for managers, team leaders, and anyone in a mentoring role who aims to refine their feedback skills to boost team effectiveness and individual growth.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

• Foundations of Constructive Feedback: Understanding its importance and basic principles
• Techniques for Effective Feedback: How to ensure feedback is clear, specific, and actionable
• Common Mistakes in Feedback Delivery: Identifying what not to do and how these mistakes can be counterproductive
• Practical Tips for Sensitive Feedback Scenarios: Strategies for dealing with performance issues and sensitive topics
• Feedback as a Tool for Continuous Improvement: Integrating feedback into everyday interactions to foster growth and development.

Why You Should Attend:-

• Understand the key principles of constructive feedback
• Learn the best practices for delivering constructive feedback that is both effective and empowering
• Identify common pitfalls in giving constructive feedback and how to avoid them
• Develop strategies for framing feedback in a positive, impactful manner
• Gain insights into handling sensitive feedback situations with confidence

Would you like to learn constructive feedback best practices that can help you every day, especially in challenging situations?

What if you could gain strategies for framing feedback in a positive, impactful manner? How about taking away practical tools and a Constructive Feedback Action Plan you can implement immediately?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, come join us, learn, listen, and laugh as Chris DeVany shares practical Action Steps we can take immediately to improve performance!

Who Will Benefit:-

• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager.