Manage(Meant)
New manager course · 5 modules

They gave you a team.
Nobody taught you how to support yourself while supporting everyone else.

Management is often framed as taking care of everyone around you. But sustainable leadership starts with understanding your own expectations, needs, boundaries, and support. This course helps you build that foundation.

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Self-paced $55 · Live cohort $149 · Lifetime access

Sample page from the course workbook — clarifying decision-making authority
Laying Your Own Management Foundation — Course Workbook cover
Includes workbook

Strong management doesn't start with managing others. It starts with managing yourself.

This course teaches the part of management most people skip: the quiet, foundational work of building self-awareness, steadiness, communication, and clarity so you can lead your team with intention — and sustain it over the long term.

The unspoken role of a manager

Most of the job isn't on the job description.

The role on paper is execution: hit the goals, distribute the work, run the meetings. The real role is everything underneath — and it's where most managers quietly burn out.

1

Navigating hard conversations

Performance, expectations, conflict, change. The conversations no manager is born knowing how to have.

2

Managing emotions (theirs and yours)

Emotion shows up at work whether we acknowledge it or not. Regulating yours and responding to theirs is the job.

3

Supporting the overlap of life and work

Life doesn't pause when someone clocks in. Managing well means making space for the whole person.

4

Leading change — the constant

Strategy shifts, priorities flip, people leave. Steady managers are how organizations actually move.

The building blocks

A strong manager is built on four blocks.

We work through each one in order, because skipping ahead is how most managers end up overwhelmed. The blocks reinforce one another — none of them stand alone.

Block 1

Clarify your role

Block 2

Set your intention

Block 3

Establish your guardrails

Block 4

Build strong connections

Each block in the course has its own module — plus a workbook section to put it into practice immediately.

The curriculum

Five modules. Four blocks. One foundation.

Module 01 · Before the blocks · context

Your role as a manager

  • What managers actually do (vs. what's on the job description)
  • The unspoken role — emotion, change, hard conversations, scaling mattering
  • Why managing on top of another job feels impossible (and how to navigate it)
Module 02 · Block 1 · Clarify your role

Clarify your role

  • Seek role clarity early (1:1 cadence, success metrics, escalation)
  • Know your team's history before you try to move it forward
  • Clarify decision-making authority across goals, ops, budget, and talent
Module 03 · Blocks 2 + 3 · Intention + Guardrails

Set your intention & establish your guardrails

  • Understand your why — what kind of manager you want to be
  • Craft a management intention you can return to in hard moments
  • Set boundaries that protect your time, energy, and effectiveness
  • Recognize early signs of burnout — and what to do about them
Module 04 · Block 4 · Connections

Build strong connections

  • Your coalition of connections — manager, peers, direct reports, network
  • Manage up without losing yourself in the process
  • Establish two-way preferences (yours, your manager's, each direct report's)
  • Run 1:1s that build trust, move work forward, and create growth
Module 05 · Self-awareness · not perfection

Common management pitfalls

  • Micro- and under-management — and what they communicate
  • Avoiding tough conversations, lacking flexibility, being a meeting monster
  • Doing it all yourself, dominating conversations, not setting clear expectations
Your instructor

Courtney Schultz

Founder, Manage(Meant) Excellence

I've spent most of my career in management, with over 15 years of experience leading teams of all sizes across functions, industries, and time zones. I've led multiple levels of leadership, managed and expanded a global train-the-trainer network to more than 2,800 trainers, and developed a deep foundation in training, development, and change management. I've also consulted on complex transformation efforts inside Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations.

I hold a Master's in Organizational Leadership, Change Management, and Strategic Innovation. I'm also a mom of three, which has taught me just as much about leadership as any role I've held.

I built Manage(Meant) Excellence because the management training I experienced never prepared me for the actual realities of the role. This course is the one I wish I'd had at the start of my career, and one I now share with the managers I support today.

Two ways to enroll

Pick the way you want to learn.

Same core curriculum, two formats. Take it on your own, or join a live cohort.

Live virtual cohort

Join the live experience

$149one-time
Projected next course: Late August

Live, virtual sessions with a small cohort of other managers building their foundation alongside you. Real-time discussion, Q&A, and the space to bring your actual current situations to the conversation.

Includes The Manager Toolkit (a $59 value)
45+ real-world scenarios, scripts, and reflection prompts you can pull from after the course wraps.
What's included
  • Live virtual sessions
  • Small-group discussion + reflection
  • Real-time Q&A on your situations
  • Full course materials + writable workbook
  • The Manager Toolkit bundled in
  • Lifetime access to slides + audio after
Already have the Toolkit?
Buy the Manager Toolkit before the cohort starts and receive a discount on your live cohort enrollment.

Get notified when the next cohort opens

No commitment — I'll just send a short note with the dates and how to claim your seat.

You will not be charged at this time — this is to determine interest. You will receive an email when registration is live.

Self-paced

Don't want to wait? Take it on your own.

$55one-time

The full course on your own schedule — five modules of slide-based instruction with embedded audio narration, plus a writable workbook. Ready immediately.

What's included
  • All 5 modules (slides + audio narration)
  • Writable workbook (PDF)
  • Lifetime access — revisit anytime
  • Instant access after purchase

Secure checkout via Stripe. 14-day refund if it doesn't land.

Frequently asked

The questions managers actually ask.

This course is for new managers, recently promoted managers, and experienced managers who never had the time or opportunity to think intentionally about their foundation. If you're responsible for leading others and want a stronger foundation beneath you, this course was built for you.

The foundation nobody handed you is yours to build.

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Questions? Just send me a note.

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