The Practical People Manager Workshop
Madhav Malhotra
Co-Founder and Instructor at QurioSkill
A one-day intensive workshop on 1:1s, feedback, delegation, and more.
Workshop details: June 13th from 12:00 pm EST - 7:00 pm EST
Most people become managers through one of two paths:
The Individual Contributor (IC) to Manager: You were promoted because you were a high performer in your field. However, the technical skills that made you a "star" are not the same skills needed to lead a team.
The Lateral Managerial Move: You were promoted or hired from another leadership role. While you understand management in theory, you must now adapt your style to a new team’s culture and specific workflows.
Despite their different backgrounds, both groups run into the same handful of problems: 1:1s that drift into boring status updates, feedback that gets softened until the point is lost, and delegation that hands off tasks but keeps all the thinking. Too often, difficult conversations are postponed simply because the first sentence isn't clear.
The workshop covers the skills underneath each of these: knowing yourself as a manager, understanding your reports, running a useful 1:1, delegating well, giving feedback, coaching when coaching is the right move, and preparing for difficult conversations.
Most of the day is spent practicing them rather than reading about them.
Workshop agenda
12:00 PM ET - Welcome and framing
What the workshop covers, what it doesn't, and the shift from doing the work to enabling others. Quick round of intros.
Knowing yourself as a manager
A manager's working style is part of every conversation with a report. Covers four questions: how I work, how I interact, where I struggle, what I expect.
Knowing your reports
Active listening as the underlying skill, broken into observe, ask, and clarify.
Running a useful 1:1
The 1:1 is the main operating surface between a manager and a report. Covers what makes one work, who should drive it, and what belongs on the agenda.
Delegation that actually works
A framework for what to hand off, what to keep, and how to hand off well. Participants sort their current work into delegate, coach, and keep.
Lunch/Food Time
Taking a break!
Feedback
The basics: clear evidence, clear impact, clear next step. On top of that, managing emotion and the three questions to ask before delivering feedback.
Coaching vs. telling
When each is the right move. How to coach without giving the answer, and without drifting into territory that should belong to a therapist or mentor.
Difficult conversations
Performance issues, sudden change, conflict, news a report didn't see coming. Covers preparation, pacing, and what to do when emotion rises.
Close
Common pitfalls as a self-check. Each participant names one thing to try in the next two weeks.
What you’ll learn
Learn to run real 1:1s, delegate cleanly, give feedback that lands, and handle hard conversations with steadier footing as a manager.
Covers four questions: how I work, how I interact, where I struggle, what I expect. Ready to share with reports the following week.
What belongs on the agenda, who should drive, and how to keep the meeting from drifting into a status update.
What to hand off, what to keep, and how to hand off in a way that actually clears the manager's plate rather than just shifting the task.
Clear evidence, clear impact, clear next step. Plus three questions to ask before delivering feedback, and a way to manage emotions.
The two moves and when each is right. How to coach a report through a problem without handing them the answer.
Covers performance issues, sudden change, conflict, and unwelcome news. How to prepare, how to pace, and what to do when emotion rises.
Learn directly from Madhav
Madhav Malhotra
Co-Founder, QurioSkill. 10+ years of experience of working in technology and non profit space.
Who this workshop is for
The new manager. Promoted in the last year for strong individual work. 1:1s feel awkward, feedback gets softened, delegation doesn't stick.
The experienced manager. 3 or more years in. The basics run on instinct. Gaps show up in feedback that misses and delegation that drifts.
The manager with growing scope. New reports, bigger team, or both. The patterns that worked at three reports start to break at eight.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Madhav Malhotra in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Frequently asked questions
$200
USD