Manage Better

A leadership development opportunity for motivated leaders.

A shared commitment to growth, communication, & excellence.

Why Failure Lab: Manage Better?

Don’t get inadvertently set up for failure

At Failure Lab, we believe that management is an independent professional skill set. The best way to exponentially improve the quality and output of an organization is to give managers the tools to lead teams and develop individuals effectively.

The Hero’s Journey

To do that, managers must come face to face with their own uncomfortable personal growth journeys. They must grapple with their own relationship with failure. They must consider their organization’s relationship with failure (both stated and unstated) and seek to understand how those relationships impact their teams and their overarching organizational culture.

Get Your Feet Wet - Join Us

We can’t promise to change your entire life and your organization's culture through a program experience - no matter how good the program. But here is what we can do:

  • Build the framework to ask provocative questions about how failure impacts our individual work, teams, and organizational culture;

  • Provide you with an entry point to discovery, reframing, and strategy;

  • Help you build your management tool belt through real-life peer collaboration.

  • Learn how Failure Lab concepts can help you and your organization Manage Better.

The Modules

  • Failure & Foundations 1

    Understanding Self

    Utilizing the Failure Archetype framework, participants will explore their personal relationship with failure and how it expresses itself in their lives, work, & interactions.

  • Failure & Foundations 2

    The Science of Failure + Understanding Others

    An overview of the science & physiology of a failure experience. An exploration of how Failure Archetype tendencies can be used to navigate personality harmony & conflict.

  • Failure & Expectations

    Setting Clear & Effective Expectations

    Reflection on expectation tendencies & preferences. An exploration of how to adapt communication strategy to effectively set expectations for different personality types.

  • Failure & Risk: Delegation

    Delegation & Direct Report Autonomy

    An introduction to the Failure & Risk framework. An exploration of “failures of action” vs. “failures of inaction.” Consideration of how these concepts influence the leadership skill of delegation & the development of direct report autonomy.

  • Failure & Feedback

    Giving & Receiving Feedback.

    Developing the skills of “leader as coach.” Understanding the value of feedback, both positive & negative. Practicing the skills of effective personality-specific feedback.

  • Failure & Culture

    An exploration of the building blocks of organizational culture. Consideration of “spheres of impact” & how every employee influences culture via modeling, practice, transparency, & iteration.

Let’s Collaborate!

Questions about how to bring Manage Better to your organization?

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