About the Course
Recently promoted and now leading a team? Or are you planning to become a manager in the near future? This course is just for you!
The transition from specialist to manager is a significant step and brings with it many challenges. You will have to learn how to effectively manage a team, motivate your employees and ensure that tasks are completed on time.
How to communicate right with each team member? How to distribute tasks and control deadlines? How to manage conflicts and stress? These and many other questions will be dealt with in detail in our course.
Start your path to effective leadership today and create a team capable of creating the most ambitious projects!
What you will get as a result
Skills to develop yourself as a manager and manage your resources.
Practical tools for team management: hiring, adaptation, development, motivation and evaluation.
Techniques of effective communication, delegation and conflict resolution.
Skills in planning, deadline control and risk management.
Course Format
classes
assignments
communication
classes
assignments
communication
Course programme
- Management and leadership. What is the difference.
- Who is a modern leader.
- Soft-skills and hard-skills of a leader.
- How to swing leadership qualities.
- Your personal meaning in choosing the path of a leader.
- Life and work = a one-piece.
- How to build a system for managing your mental and physical health to lead calmly and accurately.
- Your resources. Sources of positive states.
- Negative habits and useful rituals, their impact on work.
- What can you implement in your daily life, taking into account the time limit in the position of a manager, to work better.
- Who becomes an executive in the game industry and how.
- Prerequisites for choosing the path of an executive in gamdev.
- What is the position of an executive in gamdev. Expectation and reality.
- Choosing the path of development of an executive. The path of an expert and the path of a manager. How to realise that it is time to move higher.
- Growth trajectory of a manager in gamemade - from line manager to middle managers and from middle management to top management.
- The minimum kit of a ‘newcomer’ to management.
- A preparation algorithm for stepping into a management position. Or for the initial period of management activity.
- What questions before entering a management position/at the beginning of management it is desirable to close, with whom and for what to communicate.
- Tasks in the management position that you should discuss with management. A list of questions for these tasks.
- Stages of integration into team leadership.
- Hygiene and motivational factors.
- Finding and recruiting employees.
- Onboarding of employees.
- Dismissal of employees.
- Roles in the team. Tasks in these roles.
- Decomposition of tasks for the team.
- Delegation. Principles of assigning tasks to employees.
- The team and other teams. How they interact.
- Employee development and training.
- Project management. Its role in gamdev.
- The main stages of project management.
- Steps for each stage of project management.
- Company strategy. What is it and how it works.
- Strategy sessions within the company.
- Understanding team and company goals.
- Executive involvement in making company strategy a reality.
- Principles of goal understanding and goal setting.
- How to decompose strategy into tactics.
- Creativity as a key hard-skill of an executive.
- Working with information. Sources of information, fact-checking.
- Data-driven approach. Internal and external analytics.
- Time management. Managing your own time. Working with team timeline.
- Working with budget (financing, accounting).
- Legal literacy. Base of legislation. Work with contracts.
- Work with human resources. Labour law.
- Styles of team management. What types of styles exist, what they depend on.
- Management styles according to Itzhak Adizes (PAEI). The main types of managers.
- Your management style. How to define it and work calmly.
- Interaction with other styles. Basic algorithms.
- What is communications. Basic communicator's checklist.
- Negotiations.
- Conflict management.
- Manipulation and aggression in communications.
- Presentations (you are the presenter of the presentation) and self-presentations (storytelling in the information field/participation in online/offline events).
- The concept of crisis. Causes of work crises.
- Types of work crises. Impact of crisis on work.
- Signs of a work crisis.
- Assessing the complexity of a work crisis.
- Step-by-step solution to get out of it.
- Work crises as drivers of your growth. Analysing the crisis and its lessons for you as a manager.
- Free meeting. We gather and discuss the results of the course in the format of a mastermind group. The author of the course answers your questions.
Oleg Dobroshtan is a professional manager.
25 years in management.
15 years in marketing.
8 years in training and development of managers and teams.
Oleg joined the gaming industry in 2006.
He worked at Astum Entertainment, 101XP, Disney, Buka, Nival Interactive, Noviy Disk.
For many years he was a marketer and head of marketing teams, also worked as a director of training and development of employees and brand director. He has worked in both small startups and large international companies.
He took part in the launch and promotion of such game projects as Atomic Heart, Warface, Half Life - Episode, Portal, Team Fortress, Call of Duty: World at War, Anno 1404, Warhammer: Dawn of War, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Company of Heroes. 2: Project Origin, Company of Heroes, Allods Online, Granado Espada, Fifa Online, Rayman, Titan Quest, Supreme Commander etc.
Participated in the launch of Disney channel in Russia (on cable and on air).
‘The Fundamentals of Management course is designed to make it easier for you to lead and easier for you to get through the tough parts of managing yourself and your team.
Over the course of thirteen sessions, I will pass on the knowledge and experience I have gained from years of management - both my own and industry colleagues.
You'll gain important theoretical insights into the essential skills and tools of a leader. And to put the theory learnt into reality, there will be practical sessions on each topic.
Theory, practice, systematic approach and group work will allow you to expand your vision of team management and feel more confident in a leadership position.
Let's get started!’
Oleg Dobroshtan is a professional manager.
25 years in management.
15 years in marketing.
8 years in training and development of managers and teams.
Oleg joined the gaming industry in 2006.
He worked at Astum Entertainment, 101XP, Disney, Buka, Nival Interactive, Noviy Disk.
For many years he was a marketer and head of marketing teams, also worked as a director of training and development of employees and brand director. He has worked in both small startups and large international companies.
He took part in the launch and promotion of such game projects as Atomic Heart, Warface, Half Life - Episode, Portal, Team Fortress, Call of Duty: World at War, Anno 1404, Warhammer: Dawn of War, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Company of Heroes. 2: Project Origin, Company of Heroes, Allods Online, Granado Espada, Fifa Online, Rayman, Titan Quest, Supreme Commander etc.
Participated in the launch of Disney channel in Russia (on cable and on air).
Pricing and Packages
- online access to classes
- unchecked homework
- materials are available 3 months after course end date
- online access to classes
- homework assignments with feedback from the course author
- materials are available 6 months after course end date
- 1 individual consultation with the course author
- online access to classes
- homework assignments with feedback from the course author
- materials will stay with you forever
- 3 one-to-one consultations with the course author
Additional information
The course is conducted in Russian.ㅤ
If you have any questions or would like to customize the course and conduct it exclusively for your company, please get in touch with us at academy@wn.media. We will be happy to assist you!The course is conducted in Russian.