You have recently been promoted into management, or a first leadership role is on the horizon, and you want to start well rather than learn everything the hard way.
A self-paced programme for new and aspiring managers, built by leaders who have developed thousands of managers inside international organisations. Practical tools you can use with your team the same day.
The skills that earn a promotion are rarely the skills that make a good manager. Most people are promoted for strong individual work, then asked to deliver through others with little preparation for what that actually takes. Up to 60% of new managers underperform or step back within their first two years, and the average new manager waits more than four years before receiving any formal development.
The early symptoms are familiar to almost everyone who has made the move:
None of this means someone is a poor leader. It means nobody has shown them how yet.
You have recently been promoted into management, or a first leadership role is on the horizon, and you want to start well rather than learn everything the hard way.
You never received formal leadership development and you can feel the gap between what the role asks of you and what anyone has taught you.
You care about your team succeeding, and you would rather build good habits now than repair damaged trust and missed goals later.
You want practical, actionable guidance in your own time, at your own pace, without waiting for your organisation to run a programme.
Short videos, frameworks, case studies and quizzes, with a workbook that turns each module into action with your own team. Modules take around 90 minutes and are built in short segments that fit around a busy week.
Let go of being the best doer in the room and decide, deliberately, what kind of leader you want to be known as.
Connect your team's work to what the organisation is trying to achieve, so priorities become clear and defensible.
Create the conditions where people speak up, ask for help and do their best work.
Hand work over in a way that develops people, and coach performance instead of quietly redoing the work yourself.
Say the difficult thing early, clearly and kindly, with structures that make feedback a normal part of how your team works.
Manage your manager, work across functions and lead well when your team is not in the room with you.
The programme opens with a welcome module on why leadership matters and closes with a wrap-up where you build a personal action plan, so you finish with decisions made, and a downloadable workbook runs throughout.
Every lesson ends in something you can do with your team this week: a conversation structure, a delegation frame, a planning tool.
Designed by leaders who have built leadership programmes inside global organisations and coached hundreds of managers through this exact transition.
Short segments, self-paced, available whenever you are. Twelve months of access means you can return to each module as the situation arises.
One-time payment, with an instalment option at checkout
If you are in HR and considering AchieveLead Essentials for a group of managers, come to us directly rather than buying through the platform. Team enrolments include a facilitation pack, so you can run peer discussion sessions alongside the programme, virtually or face to face, without needing an internal L&D function to build them. As standard the pack contains four one-hour group sessions, each with reflection questions for participants to complete beforehand.
We can also tailor the pack to your organisation, for example a session after each module or facilitation by one of us instead of your team.
Contact Us About Team EnrolmentFully self-paced. You start the moment you enrol, learn whenever it suits you and return to any lesson as often as you like during your 12 months of access.
Each module takes around 90 minutes, delivered in short segments, so most people work through the programme comfortably alongside a full role. You can finish in a few focused weeks or spread it across months.
Yes, if you never received formal development for the role. The modules on delegation, feedback, influence and aligning your team to strategy are the foundations experienced managers most often tell us they were never taught.
Yes, and team enrolments work best directly through us rather than the platform. They include a facilitation pack of four one-hour peer discussion sessions with reflection questions, which we can tailor to your organisation. Contact us and we will put a package together.
AchieveLead Essentials is built by Achieve CTC, the leadership and organisational development consultancy founded by Cathrin Westerwelle and Camilla Arntsen. Between them they bring decades of experience developing leaders inside international organisations, and this programme carries the same tools they use with their consulting clients.
Your team gets one first impression of you as their manager. Make it a good one.
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