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The Essential Guide for Effective Managers (Udemy.com)

Master flexible leadership and effective communication to build your leadership brand AND drive performance

Created by: Marie Deveaux

Last updated July 2025

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What you will learn

  • Increase your team performance
  • Foster empowering work relationships
  • Grow your leadership potential
  • Understand your management style
  • Develop your management strengths
  • Identify your management skill gaps

How it compares

Against the other 41 rated Udemy courses in Branding on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 12% of them
  • Reviews11,265#2 of 42 by number of reviews
  • Length1.3 hoursshorter than 80% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2025more recently than 75% of them

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Course Description

I want you to start your management career on the best foot possible. Managers (especially new ones) can often feel unsupported, unsure and stressed out. The HR consultancy, DDI says that new managers find the stress of the job is second only to getting a divorce! But it doesn’t have to be that way. Having the right tools in your tool belt is the first step to showing up as your best, positioning yourself as a resource, and creating value for your team and your organization. As a leader, your relationships and how you maintain them are what set you apart. This course is a comprehensive guide on how to navigate those workplace bonds and strengthen your brand as a leader in any industry.

If you are a people manager who is feeling unsure about your brand, and executive presence as a leader, then you may be feeling the pressure of wanting to know all the answers, being extremely supportive, and ensuring that your team is meeting their potential. In this course, you will learn the foundational frameworks for flexible leadership styles, leading from your strengths, and emotional intelligence, so that you can connect with and empower your team on a daily basis.


I created this Udemy course for you. It’s filled with real world anecdotes from my own experience as an executive coach and leadership development facilitator and manager for over 10 years. My course is filled with modern takes on age old management frameworks, and practical exercises so that you can implement each new technique into your work routines and relationships immediately.


This course is perfect for brand new managers and provides a deep dive refresher for veteran leaders who are looking to revive their brand. And the best part is all you need is an open mind, a desire to improve, and some basic knowledge about your company communication norms and performance processes.

Specifically, in this course you will:

  • Define your management brand

  • Master flexibility in your leadership

  • Build trusting manager/report relationships

  • Increase your influence with your team

  • Delegate with authority

  • Create systems for capturing performance data

  • Give great feedback

  • Reinforce your high performers

  • Perfect your performance reviews


In addition to learning some foundational management frameworks for flexible leadership, strengths-based leadership, and the power of What’s In It For Me (WIIFM), you will also complete several exercises to practice implementing your new knowledge. You will have access to dozens of prompts for asking the right questions, evaluating team relationships, mapping out feedback conversations and dozens of suggestions on how to drive performance without increasing costs.

As a communications, leadership and executive coach who has spent years creating individualized development plans for countless managers and business owners, it has always been my delight to see a leader find their unique style and increase their influence (and their impact). In this course I have compiled the most accessible strategies for you to define your unique style as well.


So Let's Do This!

Enroll today and start multiplying your impact, increasing your influence and defining your leadership legacy.


CPE (Continuing Professional Education)

Learning Objectives

  1. Define your management brand

  2. Explain how to master adaptive leadership

  3. Name the techniques to build trusting manager/report relationships

  4. Discovers how to increase your influence with your team

  5. Identify ways to delegate with authority

  6. Explain how to empower your reports to take more ownership of their own development

  7. Describe how to create systems for capturing performance data

  8. Identify ways to reinforce your high performers

  9. Discover your management style

  10. Identify what motivates your staff

  11. Describe ways to incentivize higher team performance

  12. Explain how to lead more efficient one on ones

  13. Identify how to develop more confidence in your decision making as a leader

  14. Summarize ways to ask better questions to foster team growth

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Instructor Details

Marie Deveaux

Marie Deveaux is an executive leadership coach whose mission is to magnify the voices and agency of women and minorities in their work spaces.


Marie started her career in Americorps, serving youth in under-served communities. That led her to a robust career in education and management that led to being the Director of Training and Development at one of the largest charter school networks in New York City. Marie spent twelve years designing custom leadership development programming and learning experiences prior to starting her independent consulting practice.


Marie has brought her training and inclusive workshop interventions to companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, WPP, the 4As, Rocketship Education, Spotify, KIPP New Jersey, and the Ford Foundation.


Marie’s consulting and coaching philosophy focuses on self awareness, compassion and effective communication as an avenue for fostering deeper connections in relationships. Through this lens, we deepen capability in how we are relating with our work, ourselves as workers, and with those who co-work alongside us. Marie offers avenues for each participant to further understand themselves in relationship with others in support of creating inclusive work cultures that allow the nurturing of the individual and the group simultaneously.


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4.2

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By Nardia Jones on 9/5/2024

This course was amazing and I could easily and readily identify with what was presented. It is very interesting and the presenter is thoroughly knowledgeable. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking to take on the role of being a manager. I myself am also on this path and will definitely be going over the content again and again to assist me on my journey. Thanks Marie, a job well done. Kudos to you

By Anonymized User on 3/5/2024

I'm really sorry but the part about money is like stand-up. Managers will take all off success and money for themselves and the peasant will receive feedback. Hey you managers, try to feed your kids or pay the bills using the feedback.

By Anonymized User on 5/15/2023

It is always good to learn about things but I consider this way to black and white. I deal with a team that stretches out over several countries with their own cultures and language differences. There could be a bit more attention for the environment in which all of this occurs. My experience is that a neutral environment where you have a role based company structure and a peer to peer accountability things like these work better than in a fast paced numerical accountability structure

By Anonymized User on 8/9/2022

It´s the most compelling and challenging course I´ve been in Udemy, their assignments are really challenging. I have a suggestion, though, given the extra videos and assignments, it would be better to adjust the estimated time of the course including all these tasks.

By Anonymized User on 5/8/2022

Content is very dry, very disengaging. The content was also very difficult to filter through during the quiz to refresh ones memory to help answer questions. The content is insightful but could have been laid out better to engage viewers who struggle to learn in a lecture type atmosphere. Otherwise solid course material.

By Anonymized User on 7/18/2021

Yes, this was a great course I really enjoyed. This course would’ve been a great tool if it was a part of my company’s learning path when an individual is promoted into a leadership role. Very thankful to have stumbled across your course and I will definitely refer back to this course materials to enhance my management skills.

By Anonymized User on 2/15/2021

As a first time manager, I encountered all of these scenarios and wished I had this course before becoming a manager. I recommend this course to everyone that think or believe they have what it takes to be a people manager. I highly recommend this course if you are new to management in any capacity. Definitely worth the investment. The resources are great to have and something to have at your disposal. Thank you

By Harish MS on 9/2/2020

This essential guide explains all the qualities and building leadership skills of a manager. How to lead, brand and present ourselves in all situations and building rapport with team and very well explained about communication when to communicate, what to communicate. presenter is great loved it.

By Donna Wise on 6/2/2020

I really liked this course. It was engaging, and the sections were small enough to do in small "pockets" of time. Also, I thought that the instructor's conversational style made it interesting. Finally, I liked that there were additional resources (PDFs) included. I will be looking for additional courses from this instructor.

By Masale Morris Sethe on 5/13/2020

It is very much enlightening and helps to realize that trust is the key to a better working relationship.Displaying care to your subordinates is an expression of a deep rooted relations. Identifying and knowing the abilities and the strength of my subordinates is very critical for an improved productivity. Communications also plays a huge role in a team.as much as it is important to know the strength of my team, it is critical to know my strength as well but not only the strength but the weakness. The ability to direct,coach,support and delegate is critical to becoming a good manager.

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