Our Story
Our CEO, Eric Girard, was once a new, poorly prepared manager. He was promoted to lead his former teammates and he did everything wrong.
He vowed to work to overcome his deficiencies and help ensure those who came after him didn’t repeat his mistakes. His mission is to help new managers not just survive, but thrive in their new role.
Our Courses & Workshops can be split into the following five key areas : Management Fundamentals, Communication Skills, Leadership, Personal Effectiveness & Team Effectiveness.
Truly Integrated
We help new managers transform from high-performing individual contributors to great people managers.
Most Popular Courses
Lead Like a Pro
Empower new managers to thrive in their roles! Learn the essential skills for success as a new manager! Find your pathway to thriving as a new manager!
Coaching and Feedback for High Performance
Gain the skills and confidence to coach your employees and provide kind yet actionable feedback to help your team take their performance to the next level.
Everything DiSC® Management
Successfully engage, motivate, and develop your people by deepening your understanding of yourself, your direct reports, and your own manager using the DiSC® model.
Everything DiSC® Workplace
Learn to understand yourself and others, while learning to appreciate the different priorities, preferences, and values each individual brings to the workplace.
Leading Change
In today’s environment, change is constant and never-ending. As a leader, you need to be able to help your team adapt and adjust to change successfully to ensure they don’t burn out.
Navigating Change as a Team Member
As an individual contributor, you are faced with an onslaught of changes every day. How do you cope with them without getting burned out? Learn tools and techniques for dealing change so you can avoid overwhelm and burnout.
Management Fundamentals
Lead Like a Pro
Empower new managers to thrive in their roles! Learn the essential skills for success as a new manager!
Find your pathway to thriving as a new manager!
Don’t Just Hire, Hire Right
Learn how to conduct an effective, fair, and legal behavioral interview to get the right person on board the first time!
Goal Setting
Using the SMART Goal framework, this program teaches you how to set goals with your team using a collaborative, hands-on approach.
Coaching and Feedback for High Performance
Gain the skills and confidence to coach your employees and provide kind yet actionable feedback to help your team take their performance to the next level.
Communication Skills
Facilitation for the Occasional Trainer
Learn how to design, develop, and deliver training like a pro, even if you only deliver training once in a while.
Presentations That Influence
Give professional, polished presentations to small and large groups while conquering nerves, delivering with impact, and engaging your audience.
Virtual Presentation Skills
Present to colleagues, clients, or customers virtually with a polished virtual presence using proven techniques that will ensure your message comes across beautifully.
Leadership
SLII®
The world’s most-taught leadership framework, SLII® teaches you how to unleash the potential of your direct reports by leading situationally: Giving the right support and right direction at the right time.
Personal Effectiveness
Navigating Change as a Team Member
As an individual contributor, you are faced with an onslaught of changes every day. How do you cope with them without getting burned out? Learn tools and techniques for dealing change so you can avoid overwhelm and burnout.
Time Management and Prioritization
Learn how to focus on what is most important using the Covey Urgency and Importance Matrix.
Project Management Essentials
Run projects more efficiently and effectively so you deliver on time with less stress! This program focuses on the essentials of project management, so you don’t need to learn complicated project management software.
Team Effectiveness
Everything DiSC® Management
Successfully engage, motivate, and develop your people by deepening your understanding of yourself, your direct reports, and your own manager using the DiSC® model.
Everything DiSC® Workplace
Learn to understand yourself and others, while learning to appreciate the different priorities, preferences, and values each individual brings to the workplace.
Leading Change
In today’s environment, change is constant and never-ending. As a leader, you need to be able to help your team adapt and adjust to change successfully to ensure they don’t burn out.