Your First Management Role
Build the routines and conversations your new team needs.
For people stepping into management or navigating their first year. One complete programme: all eight lessons and the PDF workbook, in one package.
Eight video lessons · About 69 minutes · English · One PDF workbook · Self-paced · Lifetime access
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A preview with excerpts from all eight lessons: meet Theo, explore the practical tools and see what is included.
Lessons use an AI-generated avatar and voice based on Theo; the content is his own.
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Yesterday, you were part of the team. Today, you manage it. You know the people and the work.
I'm Theo, and I'm glad you're here.
I've held different senior roles in banking, such as Chief Digital Officer, Chief Customer Experience Officer, and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. I've sat in the leadership seat, with responsibility for people, decisions and results.
My approach combines that leadership experience with coaching certification through Erickson International.
The habit that earned you the promotion can make that transition difficult. Being the person who always has the answer feels familiar. Helping someone else work out the answer takes patience, especially when doing it yourself seems faster.
You'll leave with a one-page agreement to discuss with your manager: the results that matter, the decisions you can make, and the support you need.
You can remain warm and familiar while being clear about the work.
Today, we'll build a short agenda around one current issue and finish with a practical action.
Make the result, authority, support and check-in clear, then let the person own the work within those boundaries.
Useful feedback gives someone a specific piece of information about their work, explains why it matters and leaves room for their account.
Someone agreed to do something, and it hasn't happened. How you handle that first conversation shapes whether the work gets back on track and whether trust holds.
Today you'll step back, look honestly at your first month of managing, and choose one improvement to focus on for the month ahead.
Each lesson gives you a worked example, a practical tool and an action to try at work.
You can return to any lesson when a real situation makes it relevant. Use the worksheet to prepare, then pay attention to the actual conversation and the work that follows.
On-screen text: Your First Management Role. 8 video lessons + PDF workbook. Learn at your pace. Lifetime access. €99. One payment. Including applicable taxes. Get the complete programme. wegrowbeyond.com.
Practical tools for your first months as a manager.
Leave with a working agreement for your manager, a focused one-to-one agenda and a clear delegation brief built around results, boundaries, resources and checkpoints.
€99 once, including applicable tax · 8 lessons · PDF workbook · lifetime access
A self-paced video programme.
Eight short lessons, about 69 minutes in total, with one downloadable PDF workbook to put each lesson into practice. Watch at your own pace; everything is in My learning as soon as your purchase is confirmed. It’s a video programme, not one-to-one coaching.
All eight lessons, in order.
01 · What changes when you become the managerUse Do, Delegate, Develop and Decide to rethink your involvement in the work and choose one management habit to change.
Practical output: A Four Ds plan for one recurring task. · 9:15
- 02 · Agree what your manager expects
Prepare a working agreement covering results, decisions, support, trade-offs and a review date.
Practical output: A working agreement with your manager. · 8:53
- 03 · Lead people who used to be your peers
Prepare a clear, respectful conversation about how your responsibilities and working relationships have changed.
Practical output: Notes for a respectful conversation with former peers. · 8:19
- 04 · Make your one-to-ones useful
Build a focused agenda, explore support needs and finish with a useful action and follow-up.
Practical output: A focused one-to-one agenda. · 8:00
- 05 · Delegate without taking the task back
Agree a clear result, boundaries, resources and checkpoints so you can support the work without quietly reclaiming it.
Practical output: A delegation brief with result, boundaries, resources and checkpoints. · 8:25
- 06 · Give feedback that someone can use
Prepare specific feedback, explain its impact and leave room for the other person's account and a practical next step.
Practical output: Feedback notes with a specific example, impact and next step. · 8:26
- 07 · Respond when an agreement is missed
Separate agreements from assumptions, explore what happened and agree a revised commitment with support and review.
Practical output: A revised commitment with support and review. · 8:54
- 08 · Review your first month of managing
Review what you have tried and create a practical plan for one improvement in the month ahead.
Practical output: A practical plan for one improvement in the month ahead. · 8:45
Try the Four Ds exercise.
The Four Ds in practice. Choose one task you keep taking back. Use the Four Ds to decide what to do yourself, delegate, develop or decide.
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Questions about the programme
Who is it for?
People stepping into management or navigating their first year as a manager.
What is included?
Eight video lessons (the introduction is part of Lesson 1) and a downloadable PDF workbook, in one package. It is a self-paced video programme, not one-to-one coaching.
How much time does it take?
The eight lessons run about 69 minutes in total. Watch at your own pace.
What language and format?
English. Lessons are delivered by an AI avatar and voice based on Theo, with content authored by Theo.
How does access work?
After a verified payment, the lessons and workbook appear in My learning under your account. Access is lifetime; you pay €99 once, including applicable tax.
Where can I get help?
Email hello@wegrowbeyond.com. Lessons play in a modern web browser on phone, tablet or computer.
Can I get a refund?
Yes — you have the standard 14-day cooling-off period that applies to online purchases, and nothing at checkout asks you to give it up. If anything isn’t right, email us and we’ll sort it out. Details in the Refunds page.
From Theo’s one-to-one coaching work.
Coaching client experiences — not reviews of this video programme.
“Theo never handed me answers. He asked the right questions and helped me get to them myself.”
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I’ll be honest, I went into coaching with Theo a bit skeptical. I wasn’t sure what I’d get out of it that I couldn’t work out on my own.
What changed my mind was realising how powerful the practice itself is. Having someone who actually listens, and who knows which framework to bring in at the right moment, made me think more clearly than I ever managed alone. Theo never handed me answers. He asked the right questions and helped me get to them myself.
Over time it built up both my ability and my confidence. I put part of what I achieved over that period, at work and personally, down to those sessions. One of those things was finally releasing my first book, The Atom Experience Model, which I’m not sure I’d have pushed through without that support.
If you’re on the fence about coaching, I was too. I’d recommend Theo without hesitation.
Questions before you buy? Ask about this programme or email Theo directly.
Also available: Build Your Promotion Case — a 12-week self-guided programme.