Power up your people managers.

Likely you are a team of innovators, many of whom never set out to manage people. However, you can accelerate progress and prevent setbacks by investing in the development of your people managers. That’s where we come in. Our Manager’s Academy is delivered onsite or online, and each component includes unique considerations for vision-driven, trail-blazing, rapidly growing organizations.

People Management

You’ve hired “A” players, but is everyone at their best and playing well together?

In our Manager’s Academy, your leaders will learn how to ensure that employees are never in doubt about what’s expected of them and how they are doing in relation to those expectations. Along the way, your managers will develop refined instincts for responding to their direct reports’ questions, dilemmas, and most vexing challenges. Your managers will also have many opportunities to practice what it takes to translate those instincts into behaviors and communication that are appropriate for different kinds of people and situations.

We create a customized curriculum to meet the distinctive needs of your people managers. However, the overall experience includes an ongoing online forum for small groups of managers to learn together. Because most people haven’t had the benefit of this kind of capability building, we devote more time than most programs to practice, feedback, and preparation for real-life situations.

Employee Engagement

Employee creativity and productivity is your true competitive advantage.

Employee engagement starts with individuals and ends with teams. It’s crucial that your managers know how to clarify and develop each person’s distinctive way of creating and adding value. This is essential to ensure that each employee is in the right role and responsible for an appropriate scope of work. It also ensures that each employee is prepared for shifting roles and responsibilities as the needs of the company evolve.

Once managers can inspire and invite their reports to contribute in a way that continuously elevates their game, then they can do the same with their teams. We enable managers to build teams in ways that leverage individual strengths and collective potential. We guide them in learning to lead teams where courageous conversations are commonplace and yield results.

Career Development

Enabling employees to grow is a hallmark of effective management.

We can help you learn how to provide ongoing assessment of employees’ capabilities related to their current role and future career aspirations. We can also help you learn how to co-design, with employees, tailored development opportunities to help them advance to the next realistic level of management or advancement in their discipline. Your people managers will learn how to support others on the journey from individual contributor to manager, or in how to become a subject matter expert on a cross-functional team, or in pivoting to a function that’s better aligned with their distinctive interests and talents. Organizations that do this well have loyal employees and outperform the competition.