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Let's be honest with ourselves: Being a great manager is hard work. We've all seen teams and organisations, where the managers didn't live up to the expectations we all have off them. Often it wasn't really the manager's fault. They were thrown into the role without mentorship, training or the right tools and many could barely keep their head above water.
One day, we realised that there was so much money spent in organisations on gimmicky "culture tools", useless one-time workshops and all the operational tools, but there was very few effective tools aimed at making us as managers better.
So we set out to change that. A founding team of 2 managers and founders in tech. With the experience we had build over many years of managing companies and teams, we want to make our own lives easier, but also contribute to a world where human potential isn't wasted because of bad management.
Managers, especially middle managers, are the most important touch point to the people that actually create value in an organisation, the individual contributors. Managers are there to act as multipliers: Support and coach teams, create emotional safety, give strategic guidance, bring great ideas.
Even though managers are some of the highest paid people in the organisation, we don't seem to expect or train for manager for excellence. Since there is no specific previous “craft” of management that you can learn (MBAs are not it), we promote the individual contributor and do not show them how to be an effective manager.
A key reason for the dramatic rise in productivity is the digital tools we provided people. But for whatever reason, the craft of management hasn’t gotten a software that uniquely aims to make managers better.
In the end, managers lack good actionable training, an easy way to master their “operational” challenges and a way to be great everyday.
Great managers will be amazing for employees, but also a game changer for the organisation. They create environments that breed success: Trust, empowerment, high talent density, brimming with deep insight, context rich, well aligned, continuously improving.
