Research shows that up to 60% of executives fail to achieve the strategy they were hired to execute within 18 months of taking the job.
What if there was a way to guarantee leadership success from day one?
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Leadership training for new managers
Your managers and leaders are the key to employee engagement and retention. According to Gallup, organizations thrive when their leaders do:
Employees are 4x as likely to be engaged when they trust the leadership of their organization.
Employees are 7.5x as likely to feel connected to their company culture when leaders help them see how their changes today made an impact on the future performance of the organization.
Employees are 73% less likely to feel burned out at work when their leadership teams communicate effectively with the rest of the organization.
Our program addresses the unique challenges that many of today’s leaders and managers face, providing them with the tools to lead effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Ready to learn more?
Contact us to ask for a detailed curriculum
or a custom cohort.
The Leadership & Management Training Program
PART 1
MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS: MASTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
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Understand the unique role of a manager in the startup world.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Deeper self-awareness around your natural management strengths.
✔️ Your management blind spots.
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Trust is a buzzword that managers, leaders, and companies throw around. We will unpack it so it is no longer ambiguous.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ The mindset shifts required to be a successful startup manager.
✔️ The four variables of the trust equation when assessing self and others.
✔️ Tactics to build trust in a remote environment.
✔️ Constructing an operating manual
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Poor communication creates more work. Communication becomes increasingly more important as level up in your career.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ What remote managers do differently, including communication shortcuts and hacks.
✔️ The difference between B- listening and A+ listening.
✔️ How to improve remote writing skills.
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Learn how to give performance-changing feedback and appreciation.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Proven frameworks for giving and receiving feedback.
✔️ Templates, tools, cheatsheets, and more.
✔️ You’ll practice. A lot!
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Build the confidence to have difficult conversations to dial down conflict.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Proven frameworks and secrets to managing conflict at work.
✔️ How to reframe conflict.
✔️ How to manage strengths clashes.
✔️ Templates, tools, and cheatsheets.
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Master 1:1s, how to performance manage, coach, and develop your people.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Lead performance reviews and development conversations.
✔️ Recognize how to conduct powerful 1:1s as a mentor-coach.
✔️ Address challenges and ask questions with low performers.
✔️ Interpret PIPs and how they should be used.
PART 2
MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS: THE TECHNICAL TOOLKIT
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People cannot read minds! Set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and build a high-performing team. Time management included!
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Set clear project expectations with different frameworks.
✔️ Manage workloads (self and team) confidently.
✔️ Avoid expectation hangovers.
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Set yourself up for success. Learn how to recruit and hire the best team.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Examine how to assess tradeoffs associated with hiring decisions.
✔️ Explore a hiring and job interview framework that will ensure you hire the right fit.
✔️ Recognize what to look for in technical interviews for startups.
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Effective decision-making can be the difference between success and failure in any leader. Learn the most popular frameworks used at startups.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ How to build a strategic plan.
✔️ Describe different strategic decision-making mental models to drive results.
✔️ Assess tradeoffs associated with decisions and develop strategies for effective risk mitigation.
✔️ Describe how to predict challenges before they arise.
✔️ Practice making strategic decisions in the context of startups using the “Thinking in Bets” framework.
PART 3
MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS: NAVIGATING UNSPOKEN CHALLENGES
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Success as a manager is not just about managing down!
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Skills for positive relationships with your superiors and your peers.
✔️ The best way to communicate up and across.
✔️ How to sell your ideas to others
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How to advocate for yourself, and your team, and how you can grow into the next phase as a leader.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Clarity around your current role and your future goals.
✔️ How to advocate for yourself.
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Navigate change, uncertainty, and challenges inherent to the startup environment.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Change management frameworks; lead through constant change.
✔️ Tools and strategies to set yourself up for success.
✔️ Support your team members in becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and change.
Ready to learn more?
The best executive training programs combine strong management and leadership
In today’s workplace, managers influence much of the day-to-day culture that drive employee productivity and engagement, and developing their leadership skills is vital for your organization’s success. What’s more, your leaders must make fast and informed decisions in complicated and incessantly disruptive business environments, and this means working directly with on-the-ground teams to learn about smarter and more efficient ways of working.
Our tactical training program for leaders and managers aims to equip your senior management teams with the tools and strategies they need to maximize employee performance and, in turn, bolster organizational success.
Learn tactical, no BS, evidence-proven, real-life leadership skills
What to expect from our unique approach to leadership and management training:
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Invest in your company, empower your people.
About your trainer
Alice Ko, has worked for innovative organizations, tech startups/scaleups, agencies, non-profits, the Big 4, and corporate conglomerates for the last 18 years. She’s experienced different types of leadership and management - and knows what truly sets effective managers apart.
From first-hand experience as an IC and people manager, she knows that working at a startup during a growth and scaling phase has a different set of challenges compared to non-startups. The result? Participants learn the right mindset, framework, tools, and real talk to excel as a people manager in a complex and unstructured startup environment.
Alice’s credentials
✓ Worked with 90+ teams
✓ Worked with over 850 StrengthsFinder profiles
✓ 3x Marketing Director at venture-capital funded fintech startups
✓ Certified in Gallup’s CliftonStrengths
✓ ICF Professional (international coaching federation)
✓ Graduate of the Landmark Forum
✓ CPA, CA from KPMG (active member of CPABC)
✓ Graduate of non-violent (compassionate) communications course
✓ Graduate of The Corker Co.’s Facilitator Training
✓ Graduate of Conscious Leadership’s Introduction
✓ Graduate of Radical Candor’s Feedback Course
✓ Mental Health First Aid Certificate
Don’t just take my word for it.
True stories of transformation from individuals and teams.
The core competencies of effective leadership
Every manager and leader must know these seven fundamental leadership competencies:
1. Build relationships
It’s up to leaders and managers to create strong connections with team members and to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment.
2. Develop employees
The best leaders and managers invest in the growth and development of team members through training, mentorship, and career advancement opportunities.
3. Spearhead change
Managers and leaders must spearhead organizational change initiatives effectively, ensuring smooth transitions and team buy-in.
4. Inspire teams
An organization’s best-performing leaders motivate and energize teams by setting a clear vision, providing encouragement, and recognizing achievements.
5. Communicate clearly
Transparent and effective communication within the team (and cross functionally) enhances employee understanding and cooperation, which helps promote engagement.
6. Utilize critical thinking
Motivational skills are great, but good leaders employ analytical and strategic thinking to solve problems, make decisions, and drive business success.
7. Remain accountable to work
Leaders and managers must uphold responsibility and accountability for personal and team performance, ensuring goals and standards are met.
Invest in a better future for yourself, your company, and your team.
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The Secret to Efficient Virtual Communication
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