Lead the managers who lead the work.
Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders equips managers of managers to stop doing their managers’ jobs, translate strategy with clear stop items, coach and stretch their managers, hold them to outcomes without micromanaging, build peer alliances, push back upward with options and protect their own energy. Built on the BRIDGE Model with a running case and a 90-day plan.
- Time audit: what are you doing that your managers should own?
- Translate strategy with start and stop items
- Coach a struggling manager and stretch a high-potential one
- Push back on an unrealistic target with options
Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders Trainer Toolkit by Bodhih Training — built on programmes delivered to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
The workshop is on the calendar. The material isn’t.
Stuck in the detail
Still doing the old job.
Strategy that never lands
Forwarded, not translated.
The squeeze
Pressure from above, below and across.
Picture the evening before your programme.
Participants audit their time, translate real priorities, coach managers, design an operating rhythm, negotiate with a peer, push back upward with options, plan change, culture and energy, and build a 90-day plan with peer coaching.
What you will deliver
A complete design, sequenced and timed — so every session has a purpose and every activity lands.
- Framework
- The BRIDGE Model
- Versions
- 1-day or 2-day
- Running case
- Corrin Facilities Group (fictional)
From Leading People to Leading Leaders
What changes in the middle, letting go of doing, the leverage of leading through others, the squeeze from above and below.
Translating Strategy Into Team Priorities
Making sense of strategy, cascading goals, saying no, explaining the why, aligning several teams.
Developing the Managers Who Report to You
Diagnosing manager capability, coaching managers, delegating authority, skip-levels done well.
Accountability Without Micromanagement
Outcomes vs activities, operating rhythm, reviews, early warning, holding managers to account.
Leading Across: Peers and Silos
Peer influence, shared goals, resolving cross-team conflict, escalation etiquette.
Leading Up: Your Own Manager and Senior Leaders
Understanding senior priorities, bringing problems with options, pushing back respectfully, sponsorship.
Change, Culture and Your Own Energy
Leading change through managers, shaping culture, energy, boundaries, peer support, learning from each quarter.
Capstone: My Leading-Leaders Plan
An integrated 90-day plan with a review point.
Everything for the room. Nothing left to build.
Unlocks the moment you pay. Until then, here is exactly what you will be downloading.
To deliver
- Facilitator Guide with worked examples
- Slide Deck (32 slides) + simple backup deck
- Virtual Delivery Guide
For participants
- Workbook with 8 artefacts and the Corrin case
- Pre-Work
- Role-Play Pack — 8 scenarios + 12 challenge cards
- Case Studies — 7 cases with analysis
- Quick Reference Cards
To measure
- Assessment Instruments (30 MCQs + 6 T/F with rationales)
- Feedback Form
- Certificate
To design & sell
- Training Design Document
- Marketing Toolkit
What your participants will be able to do
Designed for managers of managers; regional and functional heads and senior team leaders.
- Make the shift to leading leaders
- Translate strategy clearly
- Coach and develop managers
- Hold managers to outcomes
- Build peer alliances
- Influence upward with options
- Sustain energy and culture
Walk in with data. Walk out with proof.
Trainers who measure before and after design sharper sessions — and get rebooked. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has assessments that sit naturally alongside this programme.
Walk in knowing where every participant starts.
Pair Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders with an AssessAll assessment. Participants take it before the workshop, so you can tune the emphasis to the room; they retake it afterwards, so you can show the client what actually moved. Better-targeted sessions, and evidence that wins the next booking.
- Established Manager Excellence AssessmentView assessment ↗
- Leading Up & Managing Your ManagerView assessment ↗
- Coaching & Developing OthersView assessment ↗
Nothing quite fits? Create your own assessment on AssessAll, or ask the AssessAll team to build one around this programme’s objectives for you.
That is the design work already done for you — research, session plans, slides, activities and assessments. Spend it facilitating, selling your next programme, or simply switching off.
The honest comparison
| Building it yourself | This toolkit | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Generic leadership theory | The specific job of leading leaders |
| Practice | Discussion | Coaching, accountability, peer and upward role plays |
| Output | Notes | 90-day plan with stop items and a review |
Made for people who stand at the front of the room
Newly promoted middle managers
Make the role shift faster.
Strategy execution
Translate priorities across teams.
Leadership pipelines
Build managers who develop managers.
18 years in real training rooms, packaged for yours.
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008 — for first-time managers, sales teams, leadership cohorts and whole organisations. These toolkits are that reach, distilled: the structures, activities and materials that hold up in front of real participants, written so another trainer can pick them up and deliver with confidence.
Three steps from here to the room
- STEP 1
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- STEP 3
Brand it and deliver
Every file is editable Word or PowerPoint. Add your logo, your examples, and run it.
Help your middle managers lead through others.
Download the complete programme today.
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.
The rest of the Bodhih family, when you need it
Make the workshop last beyond the room
A workshop is two days; the behaviour change takes months. Jobulary turns assessment evidence into a focused individual development plan (IDP) — a few quarterly objectives built on real work, re-measured honestly. Give every Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders participant a plan to carry forward.
IDPs are launching soon — the working demo is free to explore now, no sign-up.
Rather have us deliver it?
If you want Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders run for your organisation by Bodhih Training’s own facilitators — in person, live virtual or blended, customised to your context — we deliver it end to end.
solutions@bodhih.com · +91 99000 11601. Building your own facilitation skills? See Bodhih’s Train the Trainer certification.
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Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders toolkit — FAQs
Already bought? Resend my linkWho is this for?
Managers who lead other managers or team leaders.
Can participants use their own situations?
Yes — they bring their own priorities and managers, with confidentiality rules.
Does it work in hierarchical cultures?
Yes — upward influence is practised with respectful framing suited to hierarchical settings.
Is wellbeing covered?
Yes — Module 7 covers energy, boundaries and peer support as leadership skills.
Is there a short version?
Yes — a one-day core covers the role shift, translation, coaching, accountability and upward influence.
Can it be delivered online?
Yes — role plays work well in breakout trios.
What exactly do I get in the Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders trainer toolkit?
14 editable files: Training Design Document, Facilitator Guide, Slide Deck — Simple Backup, Slide Deck — Main, Virtual Delivery Guide, Participant Workbook, Pre-Work Material, Case Studies, Role-Play Scenario Pack, Quick Reference Cards, Assessment Instruments, Participant Feedback Form, Certificate Template, Marketing Toolkit. Word and PowerPoint formats, so you can add your own branding and examples — and a single ZIP to download everything at once.
How much does the Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders toolkit cost?
₹2,999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How and when do I receive the files?
Immediately. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. The link works from any device without a password.
Can I deliver this programme to my clients and put my own logo on it?
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.
How can I measure what participants learn in Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders?
The toolkit includes its own assessment instruments and feedback form. For a scored pre- and post-workshop measure, pair it with an assessment from AssessAll, Bodhih's sister assessment platform — for example Established Manager Excellence Assessment or Leading Up & Managing Your Manager. If nothing fits, you can build your own assessment on AssessAll or ask the AssessAll team to create one for you.
Can Bodhih Training deliver the Middle Manager Excellence: Leading Leaders programme for my organisation?
Yes. Bodhih Training (bodhih.com) can facilitate the programme in person, live virtual or blended, customised to your context. Contact solutions@bodhih.com or +91 99000 11601.
How long is the programme?
1–2 days · in-person or virtual. The facilitator guide shows how to run it as designed, and the virtual delivery guide adapts it for online sessions.