The Team Leader's SuperPowers Toolkit

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This workbook aims to challenge the perception of soft skills in the workplace. Often, the term “soft skills” carries negative connotations, suggesting that HR departments only value these skills as inferior to hard skills. To combat this, the workbook rebrands them as superpowers! The workbook is for newly promoted or soon-to-be-promoted managers and team leaders. It provides a structured training programme that gradually builds up a person’s leadership abilities over their first year in the new role. It includes traditional leadership methodologies and the latest management thinking on subjects including OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), working from home, and team resilience.

Richard Taylor is the founder and CEO of 5th Global Learning, a company on a mission to change the perception of ‘soft skills’ in the workplace. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of Creative Learning Media until its acquisition, where he received the eLearning Industry Outstanding Achievement Award.

Despite graduating with an honours degree in mathematics, Richard chose a restaurant company as his first employer, joining them as a graduate trainee. Six months later, he was surprised to be promoted to general manager of a £2-million turnover restaurant business with over 50 full-time and part-time employees, despite receiving no formal prior training on soft skills or leadership.

This sink-or-swim attitude of some companies to junior career progression continues to this day.