Premise. DISC describes how a leader behaves: the pace they set, the risk they take, the detail they demand. A style overextended becomes the derailer other people learn to work around. This module takes the DISC graph past the label and into contingent use.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read your own DISC graph, including the gap between natural and adapted style
• Name what your style costs you when you are under pressure or unaware
• Flex deliberately to the style of the person in front of you

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Track calibration

Premise. DISC explains how a leader behaves; Workplace Motivators and the 12 Driving Forces explain why. Engagement problems are usually a mismatch between what the work rewards and what the person actually values, and leaders who cannot read that will keep solving the wrong problem.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret your Driving Forces and name your top and bottom motivators
• Recognize where your motivators conflict with a direct report's
• Redesign one assignment so it pays someone in the currency they actually value

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Track calibration

Premise. Everyone is emotionally intelligent on a good day. This module builds regulation for the days that aren't (the escalation, the ambush question, the bad quarter) against the five Emotional Quotient™ dimensions: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret your Emotional Quotient™ profile across all five dimensions
• Recognize your physiological and behavioral tells before others do
• Apply a regulation protocol in real time and repair afterwards

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Track calibration

Premise. The messy middle is the stretch after launch when attention has moved on and the work is hardest. Stress Quotient™ makes stress measurable across seven workplace factors, so resilience becomes a design problem with data behind it rather than a personality trait.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read your Stress Quotient™ profile and identify your highest-risk factors
• Distinguish stress you can design out from stress you must absorb
• Build personal and team practices that survive month four

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Track calibration

Premise. The half-life of expertise is shrinking. The most reliable predictor of leadership success is no longer what a leader knows but how fast they learn from a situation they have never seen.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assess your learning agility across five dimensions
• Convert experience into transferable principles
• Build a deliberate stretch plan

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Track calibration

Premise. Real ethical failures rarely involve a clear villain. They involve schedule pressure, ambiguity, and a series of individually defensible steps.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Apply a decision framework to genuinely ambiguous cases
• Recognize the situational pressures that erode judgment
• Practice raising an objection upward

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Track calibration

Premise. The most requested capability in every leadership diagnostic we run, and the least practiced. Coaching is a default response, not a scheduled event. Facilitated by a certified executive coach.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Run a structured coaching conversation without solving the problem for the person
• Ask questions that produce insight rather than compliance
• Give developmental feedback that survives the walk back to the desk

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Track calibration

Premise. Most leaders don't avoid conflict because they lack a script. They avoid it because they haven't rehearsed. This module is deliberate practice, not theory. Aligns with Crucial Conversations certification.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Open a high-stakes conversation without triggering defensiveness
• Hold the line on a standard while preserving the relationship
• Repair a conversation that went badly

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Track calibration

Premise. Most of what a leader needs to accomplish depends on people they cannot direct. Political savvy is not manipulation; it is accurate reading of interests and currency.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Map stakeholders by influence, interest, and current position
• Identify what each party actually trades in
• Build a sequenced influence plan for a real initiative

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Track calibration

Premise. Presence is not polish. It is the alignment of substance, signal, and situation, and the ability to make an audience care about something they didn't walk in caring about.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Deliver a message that lands with a skeptical audience
• Build a change narrative with a real stake in it
• Adjust register across audiences without losing authenticity

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Track calibration

Premise. Safety is not comfort. High-performing teams combine high safety with high standards; most teams manage only one at a time.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Measure safety on your own team
• Design meeting and decision practices that surface dissent
• Hold standards without suppressing candor

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Track calibration

Premise. Framed as a performance capability, not a compliance obligation: who gets heard, who gets stretched, who gets sponsored, and what the organization loses when the answer is narrow. Available in English and Spanish.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Identify where contribution is being lost in your own team's patterns
• Apply structured practices that widen participation
• Sponsor deliberately rather than by affinity

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Track calibration

Premise. Strategy fails in translation far more often than in formulation. This module works the seam between what leadership decided and what the organization does on Tuesday.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Articulate your unit's strategy in one page a frontline employee could act on
• Identify where strategy is being lost in translation
• Kill work that no longer serves the strategy

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Track calibration

Premise. Leaders who cannot read the numbers cannot argue for their people. Built for non-financial leaders, taught against the client's own financial structure.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read a P&L and explain your unit's contribution
• Build a defensible business case
• Speak about value creation in the language your CFO uses

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Track calibration

Premise. Leaders are rarely paid for the easy decisions. This module builds the discipline of deciding well with incomplete information, and of seeing the system that will absorb or reject the decision.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Match decision method to decision type
• Map second-order effects before committing
• Set reversal criteria and decision reviews

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Track calibration

Premise. Leaders are judged, eventually, on the bench they leave behind. Talent is an architecture problem, not an HR process to comply with.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Run a structured, bias-reduced hiring process
• Make performance management a developmental instrument
• Build a real succession bench with named gaps

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Track calibration

Premise. The question is no longer whether AI enters the work. It is whether leaders can tell the difference between a decision an AI should inform and one it should not touch, and whether they can redesign work rather than bolt tools onto it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assess AI readiness in your own function
• Redesign one workflow around human and AI division of labor
• Set defensible guardrails for AI-assisted decisions

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Track calibration

Premise. Change fails on sponsorship more than on planning. This module is explicit about what a sponsor actually has to do: visibly, repeatedly, and in public.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Diagnose readiness before launch
• Perform the specific sponsor behaviors adoption depends on
• Build an adoption plan with named owners and observable indicators

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Track calibration

Premise. Most failed change is a technical solution applied to an adaptive challenge. Adaptive work requires people to change what they value, and no project plan can do that for them.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Distinguish technical from adaptive challenges in your own portfolio
• Create a holding environment that keeps productive tension without breaking it
• Give the work back to the people who must do it

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Track calibration

Premise. Resistance is data. Fatigue is a capacity constraint. Treating either as an attitude problem is the fastest way to lose adoption.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret resistance as information about a real gap
• Measure change saturation in your own area
• Sequence and stop initiatives to protect capacity

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Track calibration

Premise. Distance amplifies every existing weakness in a team's operating rhythm. The fix is deliberate design, not more meetings.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Design a communication and decision rhythm that works asynchronously
• Build trust and visibility without proximity
• Detect disengagement early at a distance

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Track calibration

Premise. Evidence over assertion. If a leadership investment cannot be defended with something other than satisfaction scores, it will be cut in the first hard budget cycle.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Define observable behavior indicators for your own development goals
• Build a measurement plan that connects leadership behavior to business results
• Run a 90-day behavior check with your manager and team

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Track calibration

Premise. Only about one high performer in seven is also high-potential. Performance is what you have already done; potential is what you could carry. Most people have never been told the difference, and most organisations have never written it down.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Distinguish performance from potential using the ability, aspiration and engagement model
• Assess their own aspiration honestly, including the parts of leadership they do not actually want
• Explain why the designation is a bet, not a reward
• Identify which of the three components is their own weakest link

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Track calibration

Premise. Roughly 15% of the workforce is highly learning agile, and it is the single strongest predictor of who succeeds after a promotion. Agility is not intelligence and it is not eagerness. It is what someone does in the first fortnight of a job they do not yet know how to do.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read their own agility profile across mental, people, change and results dimensions
• Recognise the default move they reach for when a situation is genuinely new, and why it was learned
• Extract a transferable lesson from a recent failure rather than an anecdote
• Design a first-time-condition experiment to run before the next session

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A5: Learning Agility, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. DISC describes how someone behaves: pace, risk, detail, directness. For an emerging leader the interesting number is not the graph but the gap between natural and adapted style, because that gap is where the energy goes and where the mask slips under pressure.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read their own DISC graph, natural and adapted
• Name what their style costs other people when they are stretched or unaware
• Flex deliberately to the person in front of them rather than defaulting
• Predict which style clash will cost them most in the role they are aiming at

Choose a session length

Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module G1: Know Your Wiring, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Driving Forces explain why someone works, not how. For high-potentials this matters twice over: it explains what will keep them, and it exposes whether the ambition on display is theirs or borrowed from a parent, a peer group, or a job title they once admired.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret their Driving Forces and name their top and bottom motivators
• Test whether their stated ambition is actually paid for by what leadership roles offer
• Identify what the organisation would have to keep paying them in to retain them
• Recognise where their motivators will collide with a future team's

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module G2: What Drives You, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. High-potentials are given more, sooner, with less support, and are the least likely to say so. EQ™ measures whether they can self-manage; SQ™ measures what it is currently costing them. Together they predict who burns bright and who burns out before the role arrives.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret EQ™ and SQ™ scores as developable rather than fixed
• Name their own tell: the observable behaviour others see before they notice it themselves
• Identify which of the seven workplace stress factors is loading them hardest
• Set one boundary and one recovery practice they will actually keep

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module G3: Emotional Quotient™, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Nearly half the people identified as high-potential do not succeed in the next role, and roughly 40% of internal HiPo moves end in failure. Very few of those failures are capability failures. They are derailment: a strength overused, a blind spot protected, a relationship nobody repaired.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Identify their own top two derailment risks from assessment data and history
• Trace each derailer back to the strength it is the overuse of
• Recognise the early-warning signals other people see first
• Recruit one person willing to tell them when it is happening

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Track calibration

Premise. Being told you are high-potential is the fastest way to stop hearing the truth. People start managing you. Feedback softens, then thins, then stops. The counter-move is not thicker skin: it is a deliberate practice of going and getting it before it has to come and find you.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Ask for feedback in a form that produces something usable rather than reassurance
• Hold a defensive reaction long enough to hear the content
• Separate the signal from the delivery when the delivery is poor
• Close the loop so that the person who told them the truth does it again

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Track calibration

Premise. Ambition is a pressure, and pressure is where character gets tested first, usually in small, deniable, career-convenient increments. The people watching are the ones who will be led by this person later, and they are keeping score already.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Recognise the specific ethical pressures that attach to being visible and ambitious
• Work a grey-area decision using a stated framework rather than instinct
• Dissent upward without becoming a liability
• Name their own line in advance, while it is still cheap to name

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module G6: Integrity in the Gray, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. The skills that got someone identified are the skills they now have to stop using. Every first transition fails the same way: the best individual contributor becomes the bottleneck, does the work themselves because it is faster, and wonders why the team never grows.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Name the specific work they are still doing that is no longer theirs
• Delegate a task at the right altitude (outcome, not method) and survive it being done differently
• Recognise the identity loss inside the transition and why it hurts
• Redefine what a good day looks like when the output is other people's

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Track calibration

Premise. Coaching is the highest-leverage thing an emerging leader can practise, because it requires no authority. It is also the fastest way to find out whether someone actually wants to lead: people who like being right find coaching unbearable.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Run a coaching conversation without slipping into advice
• Ask a question that opens rather than one that leads to the answer they already had
• Coach a peer, which is harder and more useful than coaching a report
• Recognise when the moment calls for direction rather than coaching

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module R1: Coaching as a Default, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Emerging leaders avoid conflict for a rational reason: they have no authority to fall back on and they have to keep working with everyone. The result is a backlog of unsaid things that becomes visible the moment they get promoted.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Open a high-stakes conversation without triggering defensiveness
• Say the hard thing to someone who outranks them
• Stay in a conversation once emotion enters it
• Repair a relationship they have already damaged

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module R2: Crucial Conversations, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. This is the defining skill of the pre-leadership years and the one most people are told not to name. Politics is not a dirty word; it is how decisions actually get made in the gaps between the org chart. Refusing to learn it is not integrity, it is just a slower career.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Map the stakeholders around a real initiative, including the quiet ones
• Distinguish the stated decision process from the actual one
• Build a coalition before the meeting rather than arguing inside it
• Trade, concede, and bank credit deliberately

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module R3: Influence Without Authority, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Presence is not polish. It is whether people believe you when the room is difficult. High-potentials are watched more than they know and judged on a handful of moments: the update to the executive group, the answer under challenge, the thing they said when it went wrong.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Deliver a point in a form an executive can act on in under two minutes
• Hold composure under challenge without becoming brittle or deferential
• Tell a story that carries a business point rather than decorating one
• Read and adjust to the room in real time

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module R4: Executive Presence, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Mentors give advice; sponsors spend capital. Most high-potentials have mentors and no sponsor, and cannot tell the difference until a decision is made in a room they were not in. Being excellent and invisible is a strategy for staying where you are.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• State the difference between a mentor, a coach and a sponsor, and audit which they actually have
• Identify the two people whose advocacy would most change their trajectory
• Make a sponsor's advocacy easy by giving them something specific to say
• Build a network deliberately rather than by proximity and accident

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Track calibration

Premise. High-potential programs reproduce whoever picked them unless someone interrupts the mechanism. The same names get nominated, the quieter performers and the less visible roles get missed, and the pipeline narrows a little more each cycle. Participants are inside that mechanism, and will soon be running it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Recognise how potential gets mis-seen, including in their own judgments
• Draw contribution out of people who do not volunteer it
• Interrupt a pattern in a meeting without making an enemy
• Name who is missing from a room and say so

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module R6: Inclusive Leadership, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. The relationship with the manager is the most common failure point in a high-potential program. Managers hoard talent, skip the check-ins, and quietly resent the stretch assignment that costs them capacity. The participant cannot fix that structurally, but they are not powerless in it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Run a manager relationship deliberately rather than reactively
• Ask for what the development plan requires without sounding entitled
• Give an executive information in the form they can use
• Manage a manager who is a blocker without going around them destructively

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Track calibration

Premise. The most common gap between a strong functional performer and a credible enterprise leader is that they cannot read the numbers. Not accounting: the story the numbers tell about where this business makes money, where it leaks, and which lever actually moves.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read a P&L, balance sheet and cash flow well enough to ask a good question
• Explain how their own function creates or destroys value in the company's model
• Build a business case with defensible assumptions
• Recognise when a number in a deck is doing rhetorical rather than analytical work

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A2: Business and Financial Acumen, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Most people described as strategic are actually just long-range. Strategy is choice, and choice means something gets declined. Emerging leaders rarely get practice at declining, because everything they have been rewarded for so far has been doing more.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Distinguish a strategy from a plan, a goal, and an aspiration
• Trace a line from corporate intent to something on their own calendar
• Name what their team should stop doing and defend it
• Spot the strategic incoherence in a stated plan

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A1: Strategic Thinking, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Senior roles are mostly decisions made on partial information under time pressure, and the people who struggle are usually those who were rewarded early for being right rather than for being fast enough and honest about uncertainty.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Decide at the right speed for the reversibility of the decision
• State the assumptions a decision rests on and what would falsify them
• Read data critically without either dismissing it or worshipping it
• Say what they do not know without losing the room

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A3: Deciding in the Fog, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. The fastest way to identify who is genuinely enterprise-ready is to ask what the function next door is measured on. Most high performers cannot answer. They have optimised their own patch for years and are about to be handed something wider.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Explain how each major function is measured and what it costs them when others optimise locally
• Find the structural conflicts built into the operating model
• Argue for an enterprise outcome against their own function's interest
• Map the end-to-end path of a customer or a product through the business

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Track calibration

Premise. Organisations ask high-potentials for innovation and then punish the failed experiment. Participants need both halves: how to generate and test an idea cheaply, and how to get organisational permission for the version that does not work.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Frame a problem in a way that admits more than one solution
• Design an experiment small enough that failing it is affordable
• Build the case for an unproven idea to a risk-averse audience
• Distinguish a genuinely new option from a rebranded existing one

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Track calibration

Premise. The generation being developed now will lead teams whose work is substantially redesigned around AI. The leadership question is not which tool to buy. It is which judgments stay human, what the work becomes, and what they owe the people whose jobs change.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Distinguish tasks worth delegating to a model from judgments that must stay human
• Redesign a real workflow and state what changes for the people in it
• Interrogate an AI-produced output rather than accepting or rejecting it wholesale
• Lead a team through a work change they did not choose

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A5: AI-Fluent Leadership, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Emerging leaders negotiate constantly (for headcount, for budget, for priority, for their own scope) and almost none of them have been taught how. They tend to either concede early to preserve the relationship or dig in and damage it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Prepare a negotiation by mapping interests rather than positions
• Know their walk-away before entering the room
• Create value before claiming it
• Negotiate internally without spending relationship capital they will need later

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Track calibration

Premise. The action-learning project is where readiness gets proved or disproved, and it usually fails for unglamorous reasons: no clear owner, no decision rhythm, no honest status. This module gives participants the operating discipline before the project needs it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Set a decision rhythm and hold to it
• Give a status that is true, including when the news is bad
• Manage a cross-functional team with no authority over any of them
• Close a project properly, including the part where lessons get recorded

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Track calibration

Premise. Careers are built from experiences, not from titles, and the experiences that predict senior success are known: general management, a critical or risky situation, a genuinely hard problem. Most people accumulate these by accident. This module makes it deliberate, and asks the mobility question honestly.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Audit which formative experiences they have and which they lack
• Name the next experience worth having and who could supply it
• Answer the mobility question honestly, including the constraints they are not willing to trade
• Have a career conversation with their manager that is not a request for promotion

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Track calibration

Premise. The step into senior leadership adds a layer most people have never touched: boards, regulators, auditors, compliance, and the standard of evidence they expect. Handling it badly is one of the more common early-tenure failures.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Explain what a board or governance body actually needs from them
• Present to a governance audience at the right level of detail
• Identify and escalate a risk before it becomes an incident
• Work with control functions as partners rather than obstacles

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Track calibration

Premise. A designation that ends with the individual is a retention tactic. A designation that produces a teacher is a pipeline. This module also solves the quiet problem of the program: resentment from those not selected, answered by making participants visibly useful to them.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Teach one thing from the program to someone outside it, competently
• Spot potential in someone else using the same criteria used on them
• Coach a peer who was not selected without condescension
• Nominate credibly, with evidence, for the next cohort

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module A4: Talent Architecture, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Two-thirds of high-potentials report dissatisfaction with their development, usually because nothing they did was ever converted into a case anyone could act on. This module makes each participant assemble the evidence, and teaches them to keep doing it for the rest of their career.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assemble evidence of behaviour change rather than a list of attended sessions
• Present the action-learning result as a business outcome
• State remaining gaps without undermining their own case
• Maintain the portfolio as a standing practice, not a program artefact

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Track calibration

Continues in Change-Ready Leadership. This module carries the emerging-leader version. The full treatment is CRL module H4: Measuring What Matters, taken after readiness is established.

Premise. Some participants finish this program and conclude (or are told) that people leadership is not their path. That is a legitimate and useful outcome, and it is the one most programs handle worst. These are still top-decile performers who have just spent twelve months being told they were special. Drop them quietly and you convert your best individual contributor into your most motivated flight risk.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Separate leadership from management from authority, and locate the influence they already hold without any of the three
• Assess honestly whether the aspiration was ever theirs, or was inherited from a title, a parent, or a peer group
• Map a specialist, technical or expert path with real progression, not a consolation label
• State what they gain and what they give up, out loud, so the choice is made rather than defaulted into
• Re-contract with their manager on what growth looks like from here

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Track calibration

Premise. Most entry-level failures are not skill failures. They are expectation failures: nobody said out loud what the job actually required, and the participant was left to infer it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe what an employer expects in the first 90 days, concretely
• Read an organization's unwritten rules without being told them
• Identify the three behaviors most likely to cost them the job
• Ask a question at work without feeling diminished by asking

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Track calibration

Premise. Everyone has a reputation at work by the end of the first week. The only question is whether they chose it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• State what they want to be known for, in one sentence
• Audit the gap between that and how they currently present
• Prepare for an interview as a conversation rather than an interrogation
• Manage a digital footprint an employer will look at

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Track calibration

Premise. Participants will work alongside people unlike them, and will be on the receiving end of that themselves. Both directions get covered.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe what diversity, equity and inclusion mean in a working team
• Recognize behavior that excludes, including their own
• Respond to being excluded without escalating or absorbing it
• Contribute to a team that does not look like them

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Track calibration

Premise. Most participants can list what they are bad at without pausing. The inventory in the other direction is usually empty.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret their own strengths assessment results
• Give a concrete example of each top strength in action
• Name where a strength has been misread as a weakness
• Describe what work would look like if it used those strengths

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Track calibration

Premise. DISC explains why the coworker who seems rude may simply be fast, and why the participant who seems disengaged may simply be careful.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read their own DISC profile, natural and adapted
• Identify what their style costs other people under pressure
• Flex toward a colleague or supervisor rather than defaulting
• Predict which style clash will cost them most

Choose a session length

Track calibration

Premise. Two people do the same job for entirely different reasons. Knowing which reason is yours predicts what you will tolerate and what will make you quit.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret their motivators assessment
• Explain why a job that pays well can still feel wrong
• Identify what a role must provide for them to stay in it
• Recognize where their motivators will collide with a team's

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Track calibration

Premise. Emotional intelligence is scored, developable, and more predictive of entry-level success than almost anything on a résumé.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Interpret their EQ results across the five domains
• Explain why EQ is a skill set rather than a personality
• Identify their strongest and weakest domain with evidence
• Set one development target for the remaining sessions

Choose a session length

Track calibration

Premise. Self-awareness is noticing what you are feeling while you are feeling it, early enough to do something else.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Name an emotion accurately while experiencing it
• Identify their own physical early-warning signals
• Trace a reaction back to what actually triggered it
• Accept feedback about themselves without collapsing or arguing

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Track calibration

Premise. Knowing you are angry is not the same as choosing what to do next. This session is about the gap between the two.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Use a regulation technique that works for them under real pressure
• Delay a reaction long enough to choose a response
• Keep a commitment when motivation has run out
• Recover from a bad moment without letting it take the day

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Track calibration

Premise. Reading a room is a skill. So is noticing that the person in front of you is having a worse day than you are.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Read tone, body language and what is not being said
• Take another person's perspective accurately
• Notice the effect they are having on someone in real time
• Recognize when to step toward someone and when to give room

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Track calibration

Premise. Everything above comes together here: handling conflict, asking for something, and repairing a relationship you damaged.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Raise a problem with a coworker without making it worse
• Ask a supervisor for something and hear no without resentment
• Repair a relationship they have harmed
• Make and keep an agreement with another person

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Track calibration

Premise. Assessment data is useless until it changes a decision. This session turns four instruments into one direction.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Integrate strengths, style, motivators and EQ into one picture
• Name the kind of work that fits that picture
• Identify the gap between that work and where they are now
• Describe themselves accurately to an employer in 60 seconds

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Track calibration

Premise. Work does not fail in isolation. Transportation, housing, childcare, health and relationships decide whether someone can hold a job at all.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Map the life factors that support or threaten steady employment
• Name the one barrier most likely to end a job
• Identify who and what can help with it
• Separate what they control from what they do not

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Track calibration

Premise. A plan the participant wrote is kept. A plan written for them is filed.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Write a plan with dated, specific, achievable steps
• Set a goal that is theirs rather than someone else's
• Name what they will do when the plan slips
• Identify the person who will hold them to it

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Track calibration

Premise. The first review is where a plan either becomes real or quietly stops. Doing it inside the program makes the difference.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assess honestly what has and has not moved
• Revise a plan without abandoning it
• Recognize the difference between a setback and a stop
• Present their progress to the cohort and their mentor

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Track calibration

Premise. Thirty days in is where the first real problem shows up and where people quietly decide whether to keep going.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Report honestly on the first month
• Name the problem that has surfaced
• Apply one tool from the program to it
• Re-commit or revise deliberately

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Track calibration

Premise. Sixty days is where the novelty is gone and habit has to carry it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assess what has become habit and what has not
• Identify the pattern that keeps recurring
• Adjust the plan against evidence
• Ask for help before it is urgent

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Track calibration

Premise. Ninety days is the formal milestone for most employers and the point at which retention is usually decided.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Assess their standing against the employer's actual expectations
• Seek feedback rather than wait for it
• Name the next growth step
• Recognize what they have actually changed

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Track calibration

Premise. The closing session. Certification, a record of change, and a decision about what this person does next.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Present evidence of behavior change over four months
• Describe what they would tell someone starting the program
• Name their next commitment beyond the program
• Complete certification

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Track calibration

Premise. The opening decides whether the next three hours are defensive or useful. Shared agreements first, then the business case: what bias costs a team in turnover, error rate and discretionary effort.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Define sensitivity and respect in workplace terms rather than abstract ones
• Describe how individual behavior shapes team culture
• Agree shared session norms and hold each other to them
• State the cost of getting this wrong, in operational terms

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Track calibration

Premise. Race is the module organizations most want to skip and most need. It covers terminology, microaggressions, and the difference between systemic and interpersonal patterns, without assigning blame to anyone in the room.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Define race and ethnicity in a workplace context
• Identify common microaggressions and why they land as they do
• Distinguish systemic from interpersonal patterns
• Use the terminology guide accurately

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Track calibration

Premise. The Motherhood Penalty is one of the best-evidenced biases in employment research and one of the least discussed in training rooms.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe the evidence on parental status bias
• Summarize the legal framework on pregnancy and parental leave
• Recognize caregiver bias beyond mothers
• Describe what a returner-friendly culture actually does

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Track calibration

Premise. Gender bias rarely arrives alone. This module covers the spectrum, the language, and how gender compounds with race, disability, age and immigration status.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe the gender spectrum accurately
• Identify gender bias specific to their industry
• Run a language audit on their own team's habits
• Explain intersectionality with a concrete example

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Track calibration

Premise. The part people actually remember. Bystander intervention, empathic listening, and what to say in the three seconds after something lands badly.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Apply inclusive language principles under pressure
• Practice empathic listening and perspective-taking
• Identify communication patterns that exclude or diminish
• Use a bystander intervention strategy in a live scenario

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Track calibration

Premise. A session that ends without a written commitment produces goodwill and no change. This module produces something specific enough to be checked later.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Commit to a written personal action plan
• Align individual behavior with stated organizational values
• Co-create team agreements for sustaining the change
• Name how the team will notice a slip

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Track calibration

Premise. The close: a pulse check against the opening baseline, written commitments, and where to go next.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Complete the post-session pulse check
• Construct a written personal commitment
• Review session outcomes against the opening agreements
• Locate the resources available afterward

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Track calibration

Premise. Most supervisors were promoted because they were good at the work. The habits that made them strong individual contributors (fixing things themselves, knowing every answer, staying busy) are the habits that stall them as leaders. This module names the shift and makes it practical.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Name the three tasks you still hold onto that your team should own
• Rebalance a typical week between doing, leading and developing
• Explain the shift to your team in your own words

In the room. Participants bring last week’s calendar or task list and sort it live into doing, leading and developing.

AI in this module. Participants identify which of their own routine tasks an approved AI tool could draft or summarize, freeing time to lead, and what still needs their judgment.

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Track calibration

Premise. Leaders do not need a licensed report to notice how they come across. This Braveheart-original module uses observation and structured reflection to help supervisors see their own patterns of pace and focus, read others accurately, and adjust how they communicate.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe your own default pace and focus, with examples
• Read another person’s preferences from what they say and do
• Adjust one recurring interaction and note the result

In the room. Participants bring one person they find hard to read and work out what that person might need.

AI in this module. Participants compare how they write to different people and test whether an AI-drafted message keeps their own voice and fits the reader.

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Track calibration

Premise. A Braveheart-original alternative to licensed motivator reports. Supervisors use a simple conversation-based map to learn what each person values in their work (mastery, people, recognition, stability, purpose or independence) and use it in assignments and recognition.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Use the Motivation Map conversation with a team member
• Identify one mismatch between a role and what the person values
• Adjust one assignment or form of recognition accordingly

In the room. Participants practice the Motivation Map with a partner using a real team member in mind (names changed).

AI in this module. Participants consider how AI changes to workflow affect what people value in their role, and plan how to talk about it.

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Track calibration

Premise. Leaders often justify their own behavior while judging others by theirs. When a supervisor starts seeing team members as obstacles or problems rather than as people with their own pressures, every conversation gets harder. This module helps leaders catch that shift in themselves and correct it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Recognize the signs that you have started seeing someone as a problem rather than a person
• Identify a story you are telling yourself about a team member and test it
• Take one action that treats that person as a person with their own pressures

In the room. Participants bring one working relationship where they feel blamed or where they blame someone else.

AI in this module. Discussion of how leaders sometimes hide behind tools and dashboards, and why data about people is never the whole person.

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Track calibration

Premise. Supervisors live in the urgent. Without a deliberate plan, the important work of leading people (1:1s, coaching, development) is always the first thing to go. This module helps leaders protect time for what matters most.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Separate the urgent from the important in your own week
• Protect time for 1:1s and coaching in your calendar
• Say no or not now to one recurring demand

In the room. Participants bring their real calendar for the coming week and redesign it in session.

AI in this module. Participants test approved AI tools for scheduling, summarizing email or drafting routine reports, and decide what to keep doing themselves.

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Track calibration

Premise. Teams follow leaders they believe. Credibility is built in small moments: keeping commitments, telling the truth, and acting the same way when no one is watching. This module helps supervisors clarify what they stand for and repair trust when it slips.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Write three values that describe how you intend to lead
• Identify one commitment you have not kept and repair it
• Plan two trust-building actions with team members whose trust is low

In the room. Participants bring one moment where their credibility was tested and examine it with a partner.

AI in this module. Discussion of honesty with AI: being open with the team about when a message or decision was AI-assisted, and never letting a tool make a promise you will not keep.

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Track calibration

Premise. Before supervisors can lead a team through AI, they need sound judgment about using it themselves. This module covers what AI tools are good and bad at, where a leader’s judgment is required, and the organization’s rules on data and privacy.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Use an approved AI tool for one real leadership task and check its output
• Name three tasks where AI should not replace your judgment
• Apply your organization’s AI policy to the data you handle

In the room. Participants bring one real, anonymized task they would like help with and try it in session.

AI in this module. This module is about AI. It is tailored to the organization’s approved tools and policy during design.

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Track calibration

Premise. People do their best work when their leader knows what they do best and what keeps them. This module gives supervisors a simple, repeatable conversation for learning both, and shows how to use it in assignments and 1:1s.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Hold a Know Your People conversation with a team member
• Match one assignment to a person’s strengths
• Plan regular 1:1s that people look forward to

In the room. Participants bring their team list and identify the person they know least well.

AI in this module. Discussion of where AI summaries of engagement or performance data can help a leader prepare, and why they never replace the conversation itself.

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Track calibration

Premise. Most performance problems start with an expectation that was never quite clear. A clear expectation has five parts: the outcome, the measure, the standard, the timeline and the support. The test is whether the team member can restate it correctly.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Write an expectation statement with all five parts
• Hold an expectation conversation that ends with the team member restating it
• Record the expectation on your organization’s form

In the room. Participants draft expectations for a real team member and real piece of work.

AI in this module. Participants set clear expectations for how AI tools may and may not be used in the work they assign.

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Track calibration

Premise. Feedback changes behavior only when it is specific, timely and about what the person did rather than who they are. This module covers developmental and motivational feedback, and removes the habits (the sandwich, "good, but", "great job") that weaken both.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Give specific developmental feedback that names behavior and impact
• Give motivational feedback that tells the person what to repeat
• Replace one weak feedback habit

In the room. Participants rewrite feedback they actually gave, or avoided giving, in the last month.

AI in this module. Participants practice using AI to check a written feedback message for clarity and tone, and discuss why feedback about people should never be generated without the leader’s own observation.

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Track calibration

Premise. Coaching helps a person find their own way to better performance. This module introduces the four-step coaching conversation (Approach, Share, Collaborate, Close) and leads directly into Braveheart Coaching Certification™ for leaders who want to certify.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Hold a coaching conversation using all four steps
• Ask before telling, and let the team member own the solution
• Close with a clear commitment and follow-up

In the room. Practice rounds use real situations participants bring, with names changed.

AI in this module. Discussion of AI as a preparation aid for coaching (organizing notes, suggesting questions) and why the conversation itself stays human.

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Track calibration

Premise. Recognition shapes behavior more than most incentives, and it costs almost nothing. Most supervisors under-recognize because they assume people know they are doing well. This module makes recognition specific, timely and fitted to the person.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Write recognition that names what the person did and why it mattered
• Match recognition to how each person prefers to receive it
• Build a weekly recognition habit

In the room. Participants write and send (or schedule) one real recognition note during the session.

AI in this module. Discussion of why AI-generated praise rings hollow, and how to use tools only to remind and track, not to write the recognition itself.

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Track calibration

Premise. Teams need a predictable rhythm: a short huddle to align the day, a regular team meeting to solve problems, and 1:1s to support each person. This module helps supervisors run each one well.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Run a 10-minute huddle with a clear structure
• Run a team meeting that ends with decisions and owners
• Set a team rhythm people can rely on

In the room. Participants redesign one meeting they currently run.

AI in this module. Participants decide whether to use AI meeting notes and summaries, with the team’s consent and a check for accuracy.

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Track calibration

Premise. A Braveheart-original module for the conversations supervisors most often avoid. Leaders learn to open with care, stick to facts, listen for the other person’s view and agree a way forward, and to address tension early before it becomes a performance or HR issue.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Open a hard conversation in a way that keeps the other person talking
• Separate facts from interpretations
• Agree a next step and follow up

In the room. Participants bring a conversation they have been putting off and rehearse it in triads.

AI in this module. Guidance on not using AI to write difficult messages that should be spoken, and on checking any written follow-up for tone.

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Track calibration

Premise. A Braveheart-original module on the emotional skills supervisors use every day: noticing their own reactions, managing them in the moment, reading others and responding with care. No licensed assessment is required.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Recognize your early signs of stress or frustration
• Use a simple reset routine in a tense moment
• Respond to another person’s emotion before addressing the problem

In the room. Participants bring a recent tense moment and replay it with the reset routine.

AI in this module. Discussion of how constant digital and AI-driven alerts add pressure, and how to set boundaries.

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Track calibration

Premise. Team members have real questions about AI: whether their jobs will change, what tools they may use and what happens if they make a mistake with one. Supervisors are the people they ask. This module prepares leaders to answer honestly, listen to concerns and involve the team.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Explain your organization’s AI direction in plain language
• Respond to fear and skepticism without dismissing either
• Involve the team in finding sensible uses of AI in their work

In the room. Participants bring the actual questions their teams have asked about AI.

AI in this module. This module is about AI and is tailored to the organization’s direction and policy.

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Track calibration

Premise. Supervisors who cannot delegate become the bottleneck, and their people stop growing. Good delegation hands over the outcome rather than the method, matches the task to the person, and agrees how often to check in.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Choose what to delegate and to whom
• Delegate the outcome rather than the method
• Agree check-ins that support without taking the work back

In the room. Participants pick one real task to delegate this week and plan the conversation.

AI in this module. Participants decide which tasks might be delegated to an AI tool, which to a person, and how to check both.

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Track calibration

Premise. When performance slips, leaders tend to jump to "they need training" or "they do not care". Most gaps trace back to unclear expectations, missing resources or consequences that reward the wrong behavior. This module teaches leaders to diagnose first, then respond fairly and consistently.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Diagnose a performance gap against five causes
• Choose a fair response that fits the cause
• Hold a consistent accountability conversation

In the room. Participants bring a stalled performance issue (names changed) and diagnose it in trios.

AI in this module. Discussion of performance data produced by AI or automated systems: what it shows, what it misses and how to use it fairly.

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Track calibration

Premise. A bad hire costs a team months. A good hire with a poor start often leaves anyway. This module covers behavior-based interviewing, fair selection and a structured first 90 days.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Write behavior-based interview questions for a real role
• Avoid common bias in selection decisions
• Build a 30-60-90 day onboarding plan

In the room. Participants work on a role they are hiring for now or will hire for soon.

AI in this module. Discussion of AI in recruiting (screening tools, AI-written applications) and the fairness and legal questions they raise.

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Track calibration

Premise. Supervisors make dozens of decisions a day and fix the same problems repeatedly. A simple method (define the problem, find the cause, choose a fix, check it worked) stops recurring problems and involves the team.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Define a problem clearly before solving it
• Find a root cause using a simple method
• Decide with the team and check the result

In the room. Participants bring a problem that keeps coming back and work it through in session. Many choose their capstone issue.

AI in this module. Participants test using AI to brainstorm causes and options, and practice checking its suggestions against what they know.

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Track calibration

Premise. People stay where they grow. Most development happens through real work, not courses. This module helps supervisors hold honest growth conversations and build development into everyday assignments.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Hold a growth conversation about what is next
• Build a development plan around real work
• Give honest feedback about readiness

In the room. Participants plan a growth conversation with a real team member.

AI in this module. Discussion of which skills become more valuable as AI changes the work, and how to build them into development plans.

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Track calibration

Premise. Service standards live or die in daily team behavior. This module shows supervisors how to turn standards into habits through clear expectations, observation and coaching in the moment.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Translate a service standard into observable behaviors
• Observe and coach one behavior in the moment
• Recognize good service when you see it

In the room. Participants bring a real customer complaint or compliment and trace it to team behavior.

AI in this module. Discussion of AI in customer service (chat tools, automated responses) and the human moments that still decide loyalty.

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Track calibration

Premise. AI can remove tedious work or create new risks, depending on how it is introduced. This module helps supervisors look at their team’s real tasks, find sensible uses of approved AI tools, and redesign work with the team rather than around it.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Map your team’s tasks and identify where AI could help
• Run a small, safe pilot with clear checks
• Decide what stays human and explain why

In the room. Participants map their own team’s tasks in session.

AI in this module. This module is about AI and is tailored to the organization’s tools and policy.

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Track calibration

Premise. Supervisors are where change succeeds or fails. They explain the why, absorb the reactions and keep work moving. This module helps leaders do that well, even when they did not choose the change.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Explain a change in terms your team cares about
• Respond to common reactions with care
• Keep the team productive during the transition

In the room. Participants bring a change their team is facing now.

AI in this module. Many current changes involve AI. Participants practice explaining an AI-related change honestly.

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Track calibration

Premise. Inconsistent treatment damages trust and creates legal risk. This module covers the practical basics: documenting performance and conduct, applying policy consistently and knowing when to bring in HR.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Document a performance or conduct issue clearly and factually
• Apply a policy consistently across team members
• Know when and how to involve HR

In the room. Participants bring a documentation question from their own area.

AI in this module. Guidance on not putting confidential employee information into unapproved AI tools, and on checking any AI-assisted document.

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Track calibration

Premise. A Braveheart-original module. Supervisors learn to spot overload in themselves and others, and use the levers they control (priorities, workload, recognition and recovery) to keep a pace people can sustain.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Recognize early signs of overload and burnout
• Use three levers to reduce pressure on the team
• Build one recovery habit for yourself

In the room. Participants bring a real situation of overload on their team.

AI in this module. Discussion of using AI to remove low-value work, and of the risk that saved time simply becomes more work.

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Track calibration

Premise. For experienced managers, the job changes again: they now lead people who lead people. This module covers setting standards for how supervisors lead, coaching them, and building the bench.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Set clear standards for how your supervisors lead
• Coach a supervisor on a leadership issue
• Identify and develop a future leader

In the room. Participants bring a supervisor they are developing or concerned about.

AI in this module. Discussion of setting consistent expectations for how supervisors use AI with their teams.

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Track calibration

Premise. Teams improve what they can see. A one-page scorecard of the few measures a team can move, reviewed on a set rhythm, keeps attention on what matters and makes progress visible.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Choose three to five measures your team controls
• Build a one-page scorecard
• Review it with the team on a set rhythm

In the room. Participants build a scorecard for their own team. Many use it to measure their capstone.

AI in this module. Discussion of AI-generated dashboards: useful for speed, and still in need of a leader who understands what the numbers mean.

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Track calibration

Premise. Once AI is in use, supervisors keep it safe and fair. This module covers the organization’s AI policy in practice: protecting data, checking outputs, fairness to employees and customers, and what to do when something goes wrong.

Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Apply the AI policy to real team scenarios
• Set a simple checking routine for AI outputs
• Respond well when an AI error occurs

In the room. Participants bring real situations where AI use raised a question on their team.

AI in this module. This module is about AI and is tailored to the organization’s policy.

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Track calibration