New Manager's Five-week Success System: 25 Days > Management (Udemy.com)
You will succeed, with the 25 most important management skills and 100 top new manager tools, actions and behaviours.
Created by: Mike Clayton
Last updated September 2026
What you will learn
- Handle themselves and be seen by peers and their bosses as managers, rather than as capable doers.
- Present, solve problems, manage their time, and deal with colleagues in a confident, assertive way.
- Manage the people in their group or team, setting effective goals, delegating, and giving feedback.
- Deal with poor performance, and develop staff.
- Communicate at a managerial level to negotiate, motivate, and resolve conflict.
- Develop their team and harness the power of a team, dealing with setbacks in team dynamics and running good team meetings.
- Deploy five of the most essential tools for any manager to have in your toolkit.
How it compares
Against the other 230 rated Udemy courses in Leadership & Management on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 42% of them
- Reviews2,439#84 of 231 by number of reviews
- Length2.6 hourslonger than 60% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 98% of them
Course Description
Are you a new manager, or soon-to-be manager, who has not had any training in management?
You are probably good at doing what you do, but managing others is a new skill. You need to win respect, motivate effort, and improve performance. There is a lot to learn.
The New Manager's Five-week Success System will give you all the information you need to start managing effectively, from day 1.
And, if you are already a new manager, then you will be able to apply this material straight away, and get immediate results.
Dr Mike Clayton - my Management Story
Hi, I'm Mike Clayton. I’ve been training new managers for nearly 20 years. And I was once that new manager myself, so I know the challenge of going from a doing role to a managing role. It doesn’t matter how good you are at doing: management is something new.
So, I have included in this course all the things I most wish I'd known when i started managing teams of colleagues. And I have created it around nuggets of advice that you can put straight into action: 100 of them.
Using thee tools, ideas, and methods, I was promoted from Manager to Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting in one year - the minimum possible.
Here's what you'll get...
At the end of this course, you will be able to manage your team well… and to do so with confidence. You will be ready to take your place as an effective manager in your organization.
In this course, you’ll get 25 modules, covering all the basics of management. They are split into five sections with five themes:
- personal effectiveness
- communication skills
- managing individuals
- managing teams
- manager’s toolkit
Take a look at the 25 lectures in the curriculum to see what you'll be covering, in more detail.
So, that’s one group of five videos a week: one a day. Each video gives you four essential tips that you can apply straight away to get guaranteed results. They build up into an indispensable list of 100 ‘do this’ essentials that will transform your ability to get results.
Do you want to succeed quickly?
...or fail slowly?
Take this course if you aim to succeed in management, and you want to make a rapid start.
... Especially if you are in a management role for the first time and feel out of your depth, without the support and guidance you need.
Let Mike Clayton, with 20 years of being a manager and training managers, be your guide.
Do You Have to do One-a-day for Five Weeks?
No.
That structure makes it easy for people with only a few minutes to spare, each day.
If you prefer to work through them, faster, or to dip in and out, or to watch what you need, when you need it... That's all fine by me.
And however you watch these videos, don't forget: I will be here to answer any questions you have.
Your Unconditional, No-questions, 30-Day Guarantee
The best way to assess how valid this material is in you culture is to try it out. I am so confident that this course will change your life that I offer you an unconditional, no questions asked, full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee. If you don't think this will give you the tools to do more with your time, then just ask for your money back.
And What if you have questions?
I will be on hand to answer your questions if you get stuck, puzzled, or just want to know more. As a professional trainer, this is what I do, and I promise to respond within 24 hours of your question arriving with me from Udemy.
Enroll Now
Enroll for this course now, so you can start to regain control of your life straight away.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
2,439 Reviews
Mike Clayton
Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training.
Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda.
Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of The University of Manchester.
Mike currently has 14 courses on Udemy, with a long list of successful seminars and training courses to convert into video format.
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Reviews
By Caryn Cramp on 8/6/2026
That's all well and good, however, when you are looking after a portfolio of clients as well as managing a team, you can't just tell clients to go away or cross off their work requirement.
By Kyle Jent on 9/27/2024
solid thinking points for becoming a stronger leader. Learning how exercise your authority without coming off as a power-hungry control freak. While still executing in a manner that allows employees a say and ability to improve skillsets to be more accountable and dependable
By Nigel Biscombe on 2/23/2024
The course covered a lot of ground without getting too deep on any one topic. It included explanations of many well known models and tools and had a lot of practical advice tips (100) many of which are immediately implementable. Mike has identified 25 things that people who are new to a leader / manager role can work on to kick-start their development.
By Lisa Heaton on 1/10/2024
I particularly appreciate that the lessons are broken down into bite-sized chunks and that Mike breaks the lessons down into lists of tips and tricks. It might be helpful to give examples of different conversations (e.g., calling out bad behavior) to put the tips and tricks into a larger context.
By Anonymized User on 10/6/2022
I loved this course. It's very valuable, especially the parts about helping your employees to make the jump from ok to excellent, and also motivating by breaking up TASKs into chucks so they feel good at the end of the day.
By Maurice Kwizera on 4/20/2022
As a new Manager, i am being stressed with the last moment urgent assignments, where it is not easy to know which one to be pritiozed than others, but know i will be planning what is important than urgent. Also i was only Working as per to do lists without considering OATS principles and not taking into account don't do list. on motivation section I leaned the following new TIPs: 1. how i can Motivate people from what he like to do. 2. How milestones can Motivate the team
By Eve Fenton on 1/6/2021
As a new manager it has given me through knowledge and content in terms of Personal, Managing People , Communication Skills, Maintaining Performance dealing with conflict which I do not have enough experience this is a good start for me to perform efficiently in my new role.
By Tara Coberly-Horrall on 11/15/2020
I am learning new things, I think it was the right choice for me.
By Radha Krisna das on 11/15/2020
First, it started with the general things that most people, who are becoming managers have heard about. Then it just really goes beyond expectations. Simple, down to earth, practical knowledge that can be immediately applied. I highly suggest it to any new or up-coming managers.
By Alvina on 11/15/2020
It was motivational and skillful
By Saidi Mayanga on 11/8/2020
Amazing course
By Todd Malcolm on 10/24/2020
Its good. I have no idea about how to be a manager and look forward to being one in the near future so this is helping in a very impactful way.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100










