DO YOU WANT YOUR NEW MANAGERS PRODUCING GREAT RESULTS,
WITH NO MORE HAND-HOLDING FROM YOU?

Develop Women Into Great Managers Who Handle Their Own Issues, Navigate Politics, and GET THINGS DONE – Without a Huge Investment in Internal Training

Dear Corporate Leader,

It takes an investment of 6 to 9 months of training and coaching to get new managers up and running and productive in their new role...even the best people have a steep learning curve.

Frequently, we promote our best people into the role of manager, but we can’t provide the kind of training or support that will make them truly successful. Instead, we hope their intellect and skill will get them through.

The truth is that if your new manager fails at the new role or leaves your organization, it costs you dearly. The replacement cost for a manager level position has been assessed at 50-75% of their annual salary. And that doesn’t include the lost productivity, morale, and customers caused by a poorly trained manager! Bottom line: You can’t afford to leave it to chance and simply ‘hope’ your new manager makes it. You need to take action to ensure they succeed.

Even Well-Chosen Managers May Be In Over Their Heads

You have taken your very best people – exceptional performers, well- respected, and willing – and promoted them to management-level positions. This is good, right? Your best people make the best managers, don’t they?

Maybe. Maybe not.

A great manager needs a whole different set of skills than a great employee needs. Your new managers are supervising people who used to be their peers. Communication and relationships can be strained...and giving feedback (both positive and negative) can be really awkward. They have been brought into the management networks in your company, but don’t know the lay of the land or how to work the systems to get things done.

Female managers have a unique set of skills...and a unique set of challenges.
As a woman moves into a managerial role, her peer relationships are challenged. Among her new peers, she may encounter a credibility gap. She may not be used to defending her ideas in meetings, or may get tongue-tied trying to assert herself. On the other end of the spectrum, some new managers get fierce, alienating others as they aggressively try to protect their turf. A new woman manager may be challenged to maximize her team’s morale and performance, vacillating between being a “buddy” and a drill sergeant to her team.

Any transition into management is tough. On top of all this, your newly-promoted manager has new skills to learn, a new hierarchy to adjust to, new respect to be won...all in the midst of tremendous pressure from all directions. Not to mention the fact that business doesn’t slow down to give her time to get up to speed – you need her at peak performance now. And you need results fast!

The Last Thing You Need Is To Worry About Her Job On Top Of Your Own!

You don’t want to waste your time worrying about your new managers. They are at your door every five minutes asking for direction, asking how to do something, escalating issues they should be able to handle on their own. Or even worse, they aren’t asking for support at all and the only results you see are sorely lacking. You can feel the tension in the department as the manager’s direct reports don’t get their problems resolved.

You need a fix. Your managers are critical to the success of your organization. They create what happens on a daily basis. And most likely they are the people your clients interact with most often. You cannot afford to put your customers in the hands of an untrained manager.

We’ve seen it hundreds of times: under-trained managers who eventually make it by luck, after much trial and error, or who slowly and painfully fall from grace. Either way, it costs companies buckets of money every year.

You know there is a better way. You see the problem and you don’t know how to fix it. Perhaps you’ve tried everything in your own management “toolkit”, and your new manager is still not getting it. Or you have a hunch about what’s really going on with her management, but it just seems like more trouble than it’s worth to deal with it head on. You secretly would love it if someone could just make these problems go away...

What if you could say good-bye to handholding
and see your new female managers develop confidence,
skills, and competencies without YOU having to do all the work?

Now there is a training and development solution that:

• Actually WORKS so you don’t have to do it again in 6 months.
• SUSTAINS high-level performance, and doesn’t leave you with just another big binder taking up space on a shelf.
• Addresses the unique challenges and opportunities of female leadership
• Gives your female managers skills that they can apply IMMEDIATELY – so that you can get on with your business.
• Doesn’t cost a fortune or require a huge investment in internal training.
• Frees up your time, to focus on the zillion other things you need to do.

Two leading management development experts have put their heads together to revolutionize management training for women. Together, Michele Lisenbury Christensen and Sara Harvey Yao have created the New Manager Development Program for Women. This program quickly and effectively trains new female managers to quickly become top performers and future leaders. In addition to teaching the core skills of effective management, this program directs these managers’ unique female qualities so that being women is an asset, not a liability.

The New Manager Development Program for Women is designed specifically to develop women with great potential into capable, self-directed managers. They move seamlessly from effectively managing direct reports, to successfully tackling issues head-on, to creating outstanding customer experiences and team collaboration day after day.

This is no ordinary, off-the-shelf training program. It’s a whole new combination of proven learning methods and unique-to-women tools that is guaranteed to get unprecedented results for your new female managers.

The New Manager Development Program for Women provides training unlike any other program:

• It combines three of the most effective training methods: classroom style training, peer learning, AND one-on-one coaching. Learning sticks and behavior changes.
• It includes plenty of individual attention for your managers from an experienced coach, absolutely committed to their success. Support is ongoing.
• Accountability is built right in. Your managers design their own action plans, with their coaches, to integrate new skills; and report back on their progress. They perform.
• These women’s unique feminine power is leveraged. Your managers are not becoming good imitation men or power-hungry tyrants; they become powerful, nurturing leaders who can inspire both performance and morale.
• There is a powerful networking component: your managers work through the material over six months with non-competitive female colleagues from other companies to share best people management practices, etc. Success is sustainable.
• Real change happens in small increments and over time: this program supports your managers in mastering six critical competencies over a six-month period. They have tools they can use immediately after the first session. Increased confidence is inevitable.

Contact us to discuss your manager’s needs now.

When your managers complete the New Manager Development Program for Women, worrying about them will be a distant memory.

Imagine your new manager transformed: She just gets it. She’s focused. She achieves results, deals with issues, gives meaningful feedback, and has a highly functioning team that performs—happily! She knows when (and how) to fight for an issue, and when to back off. She recognizes her own blind spots, and even better, knows how to work around them for maximum effectiveness. She takes feedback from you and others well, listening carefully, seeking to understand and adjusting her approach accordingly.

Your manager does her job, and does it well – making you look good and freeing you up to focus on your own stuff: the direction and strategy of your department.

Contact us to discuss your manager’s needs now.

When a manager enrolls in the New Manager Development Program for Women, she gets:

• A six-month, highly tailored program combining classroom style training, peer learning, and one-on-one coaching.
• Facilitation and support by two experienced, leading management experts, totally committed to her success.
• A skills assessment, both before and after the program, to measure effectiveness and return on investment.
• Integration of her power assessment so she understands the impact she has on others.
• Strategically designed small groups (limited to 12 participants), ensuring a perfect balance between peer learning and individual attention.
• Training, discussion and support that focuses on managing people, not on strategy.
• Monthly two-hour breakfast training sessions held at the Bellevue Harbor Club – with breakfast provided.
• One focused topic each month, to ensure mastery and assimilation.
• Monthly, 40-minute one-on-one telephone coaching sessions to guarantee application of the material to their unique circumstances.
• Anytime one-on-one access to her coaches for laser coaching on challenging situations or issues that arise between sessions.
• Optional, monthly 60-minute group conference calls to check in, ask specific questions and brainstorm possible solutions with peers and coaches.
• An electronic discussion forum so she can ask questions and share insights with her coaches and peers.
• A follow-up session at the end of the program with her coach and her boss to create an on-going development plan.

In the New Manager Development Program for Women,
your new manager will master:

• The transition from peer to leader
• Giving feedback that transforms rather than alienates
• Perfect delegation – how, when, what, and to whom.
• Getting things done; utilizing positional and non-positional power
• Building a culture of open and on-going dialogue - so problems are quickly exposed and the best solutions identified
• Moving from firefighting to leading their team in new directions that contribute to your bottom line
• How to avoid distortions of femininity that undermine her effectiveness
• How to leverage her unique traits to enjoy managing and sustain her energy

All of this must cost more than the usual American Management Association training programs, right?

Wrong!

Not only do your managers receive the best, most customized training available, but you save on program tuition AND avoid travel costs! The New Manager Development Program for Women, complete with six months of classroom training, peer learning, and one-on-one coaching, costs only $1,950 per participant!

To learn more or reserve a spot, click here to e-mail us or call 206-686-3670. We’ll have a short conversation to learn more about you, your new manager and your organization. When you enroll a new manager in the program, we’ll also guide you through the next steps to completing the pre-program assessment.

It sounds almost too good to be true. How can I be sure?

Both of our founders, Sara Harvey Yao and Michele Lisenbury Christensen, are masters at improving the results of managers. One of their biggest frustrations is that typical training programs don’t really ensure results. So, because they are so passionate and confident about this program’s effectiveness and women managers’ potential, and so committed to your success, the results are guaranteed. You and your manager will assess her strengths and areas for improvement both before and after the program...so you can see the return on investment, on paper. If a manager has not measurably improved and you are unsatisfied with the outcomes, your manager can continue to work with Sara and Michele after the program ends, until they track measurable results.

NEW groups are forming now – don’t wait!

A small number of groups are now forming in the Seattle and Bellevue area. Don’t miss your chance to invest wisely in your best up-and-coming people, and give them the support and training they need to get amazing results, now. Help your managers WOW you with what they are capable of.

Most of our participants have been promoted to a manager role within the last 2 years, some are brand new to their role and others are on the radar to be promoted within the year. Either way, investing in your manager’s growth now will ensure her performance will pay off in the future! And if you yourself feel like you’ve never had the training and support you need to be the kind of manager you want to be, perhaps the program is for you.

Sign up today!

Program participants will receive these special bonuses if they are registered before January 30th.

• A mid-session check-in where her coach will give her boss a progress update
• A 60-minute group refresher conference call, 3 months after completion of the program
• A copy of a management book we hand-pick, given her specific needs

Contact us to discuss your manager’s needs now.

YES! I want to enroll my manager in the New Manager Development Program for Women for $1,950. I understand I get the following:

• A six-month, highly tailored program combining classroom style training, peer learning, and one-on-one coaching.
• Facilitation and support by two experienced, leading management experts, totally committed to her success.
• A skills assessment, both before and after the program, to measure effectiveness and return on investment.
• Integration of her power assessment so she understands the impact she has on others.
• Strategically designed small groups (limited to 12 participants), ensuring a perfect balance between peer learning and individual attention.
• Training, discussion and support that focuses on managing people, not on strategy.
• Monthly two-hour breakfast training sessions held at the Bellevue Harbor Club – with breakfast provided.
• One focused topic each month, to ensure mastery and assimilation.
• Monthly, 40-minute one-on-one telephone coaching sessions to guarantee application of the material to their unique circumstances.
• Anytime one-on-one access to her coaches for laser coaching on challenging situations or issues that arise between sessions.
• Optional, monthly 60-minute group conference calls to check in, ask specific questions and brainstorm possible solutions with peers and coaches.
• An electronic discussion forum so she can ask questions and share insights with her coaches and peers.
• A follow-up session at the end of the program with her coach and her boss to create an on-going development plan

And I’m fully protected by your results guarantee.

We are committed to developing independent and contributing managers for you. Let us simplify your life by developing your female managers.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Warmly,

Sara Harvey Yao and Michele Lisenbury Christensen
Principals, The Elements of Feminine Power

P.S. – The proven methods of this innovative and effective training program can become your competitive advantage – but only if you get your new female manager registered and into a group. Let her show you what she’s capable of. Buckle up, because they are going to be out there making you look good in record time. Register now for the New Manager Development Program for Women.