Emerging Standard Manager Accelerator
Eight-week employer-sponsored leadership development cohort
The Emerging Standard Manager Accelerator turns the Eight Playbooks into a structured implementation experience for new managers, emerging leaders, and high-potential employees. Participants build practical leadership judgment, apply each discipline to current workplace challenges, and leave with a repeatable personal operating system.
Designed for organizations that need managers to
- Lead themselves with steadiness and accountability
- Build trust and psychological safety without lowering standards
- Communicate expectations, decisions, and priorities clearly
- Give useful feedback and coach performance
- Delegate ownership with appropriate checkpoints
- Make sound decisions and protect strategic priorities
- Navigate difficult conversations constructively
- Create aligned, accountable, high-performing teams
Program structure
- Up to 12 participants in one private employer cohort
- Leadership readiness assessment and organizational kickoff
- All Eight Emerging Standard Playbooks
- Four live, facilitator-led virtual workshops
- Weekly implementation assignments and practical workplace scenarios
- Editable tools, conversation scripts, and manager application guides
- Peer accountability and structured reflection
- Participant completion certificates
- Thirty-day adoption review
- Executive summary of participation, adoption themes, and recommended next steps
Eight-week learning sequence
- Lead Yourself First: establish personal standards, self-awareness, and steadiness under pressure.
- Build Trust & Safety: create candor, reliability, and productive accountability.
- Communicate with Clarity: turn intent into messages people understand and act on.
- Give Feedback & Coach: improve performance while strengthening ownership.
- Delegate with Accountability: define outcomes, authority, support, and checkpoints.
- Decide & Prioritize: evaluate tradeoffs and focus attention on what matters.
- Navigate Difficult Conversations: address conflict, boundaries, and missed expectations.
- Create a High-Performing Team: connect purpose, roles, operating rhythms, and learning.
What the organization receives
A consistent manager-development experience, practical tools employees can use immediately, observable application during the program, and a documented follow-up review. The engagement is designed to create stronger day-to-day leadership behavior—not simply course completion.
Investment
$22,500 for one private cohort of up to 12 participants. Final scheduling and participation details are confirmed during onboarding. Customization, in-person delivery, additional coaching, and cohorts larger than 12 require a separate scope.
Next step: Request a fit and scheduling conversation before purchase so we can confirm the cohort, organizational priorities, and delivery calendar.
