SPEC-11 · Managers who own their team's results.
Manager Training
Most managers were promoted for being good at the job they no longer do. The programme measures where your managers actually struggle, then builds them over one quarter with workshops, group coaching and practice on the conversations they are avoiding.
Investment
From $2,500
Format
One quarter · audit, workshops and coaching
What it is
Almost every manager in a growing company was promoted for being good at the work, not for managing people. Nobody taught them how to run a one-to-one, give feedback that changes behaviour, delegate without losing hold of the outcome, or sit through a hard conversation without escalating it.
The cost is not abstract. It arrives as decisions that travel back to the founder, projects that stall between teams, and good people who leave because of the manager rather than the job.
We diagnose before we teach. Each manager's own team gives feedback, the manager self-assesses, and we speak to every one of them. Only then do we build the programme around the gaps that actually exist, and measure the same things again at the end.
What you walk away with
- →Fewer people issues landing on the founder's or HR's desk
- →Managers who own their team's results instead of reporting on them
- →Difficult conversations held early, before they become escalations
- →A measured before and after you can show the board
Pricing
Prices you can budget for before you commit
Every price is fixed and quoted in writing before work starts. The manager audit can be booked on its own, and each manager beyond the first six is added at a flat rate.
Manager effectiveness audit
$2,950
Covers up to six managers, with $195 for each one after that. Runs about two weeks and can be booked on its own, with a written readout for your leadership team.
Manager training programme
$18,500
One quarter, up to ten managers, with workshops, monthly group coaching and accountability check-ins included.
1:1 coaching add-on
$1,200
Per manager, for twelve one-to-one coaching hours at our published $100 rate, running alongside the programme.
Most popular
Audit + manager training programme
The $2,950 audit for six managers, then the one-quarter programme at $18,500. Each extra manager adds $195, up to ten managers at $22,230.
Starting at
$21,450
$2,730
Per manager for the audit and programme, for a team of eight.
$50,000+
To replace one manager on a $100,000 salary.
$85,000+
A year for an in-house learning and development hire, before benefits.
All prices in CAD, plus applicable tax. A single two-hour workshop for up to twelve managers is $2,500.
In detail
The manager audit
Two weeks of evidence before a single workshop is designed. It tells you what to fix first, and what leaving it costs.
Team feedback
Each manager's direct reports describe what works and what does not, in confidence. This is where the real gap usually appears.
Manager self-assessment
Every manager scores themselves against the same standard, so the distance between how they see themselves and how their team sees them becomes visible.
A conversation with each manager
One structured interview per manager, covering the situations they avoid and the support they have never had.
Leadership readout
A written readout for your leadership team: the ranked gaps, the risk of leaving each one, and the plan the programme will follow.
The one-quarter programme
Three stages, each built on the one before it and shaped by what the audit found.
Ready: the shift from doer to manager
Clarity on the role itself, what a manager is accountable for, and what they have to stop doing to do it well.
Fluent: the conversations that should be routine
One-to-ones, delegation and feedback that happen every week without anyone needing to prepare a script first.
Confident: the hard moments
Difficult conversations, underperformance and real accountability, practised on the situations already in front of them.
Coaching and check-ins
Monthly group coaching and accountability check-ins between sessions, so the habits survive the workshop.
FAQ
Questions before getting started
What is management training, and does it actually work?
Management training teaches the people who lead teams how to do it: one-to-ones, delegation, feedback, difficult conversations and accountability. It works when it is built around the gaps a specific team actually has and is measured afterwards. It does not work as a generic course followed by nothing, which is why the audit and the re-measurement are part of this programme rather than optional extras.
How many managers can join the programme?
Up to ten in the flat programme price. The audit covers six managers at $2,950, then $195 for each additional manager, so auditing eight managers is $3,340. If you have more than ten managers, we scope delivery in cohorts and price it in writing first.
Can we book a single workshop instead of the whole programme?
Yes. One two-hour workshop for up to twelve managers is $2,500, built around what your managers are facing now: feedback, one-to-ones, delegation, conflict, priorities, decision making, managing up or career conversations.
Is this coaching or training?
Both, in sequence. The workshops build the shared language and the frameworks, group coaching works on the situations your managers bring from their own teams, and the one-to-one add-on is for a manager who needs private support. Most teams buy the programme without the add-on.
How do you measure whether it worked?
The audit sets the baseline: team feedback, manager self-assessment and the specific gaps found. We re-measure the same three areas at the end of the quarter, so the change is a number you can show a board rather than a satisfaction survey.
SPEC-11
Bring us the challenge behind the brief.
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