Which of your managers will fail in the next twelve months? Name them.
What did last year's leadership program change in actual manager behavior? Show one example.
How many of your team leads can run a one-on-one that isn't a status update?
What happens to your best engineer the day after you promote them?
If you flinched at any of these, this book is the diagnostic and the fix.
These aren't four separate problems. They're one problem: your company promotes specialists and prays.Nobody owns the system that turns them into leaders - so HR gets blamed when they crash. This book is thatsystem, built by an HR practitioner who installed it at a bank, Ukraine's largest TV channel, Wargaming, Preply, and iDeals - and stress-tested by 150,000+ students of his academy.
Templates inside that answer each kind of question:
The Manager Readiness Scorecard - score the promotion BEFORE the damageThe People Management Levels Assessment - map all your managers in one afternoonThe Cost-of-Bad-Management Calculator - the number that wins the budget meetingThe Leadership Program Blueprint - the one-page program a CEO can approveThe Delegation Matrix - six levels from "do as I said" to "take care of it"The One-on-One Script - the 30 minutes that determine the next 40 hoursThe CARE Interview Guide - assess competencies without guessworkThe Q12 Survey Setup Guide - measure engagement and actually move itThe Individual Development Plan - built the way people actually change57 templates in total, every one on the page with a worked example - no email walls, no downloads.
The Leadership Pipeline (3rd edition) costs $34 and gives you the theory. A leadership developmentconsultant bills $200+ an hour to build what's in these pages. This book costs less than the coffee budget ofone useless training day - and you keep the system.
Stop running training that changes nothing. Build the system that builds leaders.