Leadership Boot Camp
IMPROVE PROCESS * IMPROVE RESULTS * BUILD YOUR TEAM * INSPIRE YOUR PEOPLE
Which of these situations applies to YOU?
I am a new manager: I know I can do a good job in this position but I don’t really know much about how to be an effective leader. I’m pretty much flying by the seat of my pants.
I’ve moved to a new management position: I’ve been a leader for a while, but that was in another area of my organization, or with a different company.
I want to be a leader: I don’t have a leadership position just yet. I’m waiting for the right opportunity, and in the meantime, I’m working on getting the right experience and education.
I want to improve my leadership skills: I want to keep up-to-date with what’s new in leadership and management. I need a bit of a tune-up.
That’s me! Let’s get started with the Wily Manager Leadership Boot Camp
Listen to find out more about the Leadership Boot Camp:
Download the ‘Leadership Boot Camp’ Brochure (mp3):
Leadership Boot Camp graduates perform better. You will:
- Handle challenging leadership situations effectively
- Handle demanding leadership tasks
- Manage yourself effectively
- Be an inspirational leader to others
- Improve employee engagement and retention
- Manage employee performance professionally
- Handle difficult situations with confidence
- Maximize the value you add to your organization
- Manage conflict with confidence
- Make the maximum use of your time
- Better solve problems and make decisions
- Delegate and manage performance with ease
- Be a better communicator
- Confidently hold others accountable
- Effectively upward manage your boss
- Recruit and onboard new people successfully
- Build dynamic, simple and executable work plans
You will also be sure that you are:
- Making your boss happy
- Giving your direct reports the development opportunities that they crave
- Capturing employee discretionary effort by leading a fully engaged team
- Maximizing your own productivity and that of your people
- Maximizing business outcomes through the effective engagement of teams
- Minimizing the damage caused by difficult situations or employee problems
- Managing your own career towards the outcome that you really want
I want to get started with the Leadership Boot Camp
Learn the essential skills you need to succeed in your role as a leader or manager:
The Leadership Boot Camp is presented in 17 sequential Modules:
Price of Entry Skills:
- Module 1: Self Assessment – Determine which areas to focus on, based on self-identified skill gaps specific to your situation.
- Module 2: Stakeholder Management – Map out who you need to interface with, and determine which relationships are most important.
- Module 3: Upward Managing & Making an Impression – Figure out what your boss and other stakeholders need from you, and design a strategy to deliver it.
- Module 4: Environmental Scan – Analyze the situation you are in, and plan to be successful in that environment.
- Module 5: Time & Priority Management – Determine the highest value added activities and get them done.
- Module 6: Decision Making & Problem Solving – Learn the process of making quality decisions with imperfect information, and tools to quickly solve common problems.
Manager Basics (People Skills):
- Module 7: Effective Hiring and Onboarding – Personnel decisions are important and expensive. A few simple tools greatly increase the odds of success.
- Module 8: Conflict Management – How to surface and constructively deal with conflict in the workplace. Use the Conflict Dynamics Profile to understand personal reactions to conflict.
- Module 9: Progressive Discipline and Employee Dismissal – How to effectively manage people when they choose not to be successful.
Manager Basics (Process Skills):
- Module 10: Effective Meetings – Meeting planning and execution tools to improve this time-consuming part of the job.
- Module 11: Delegating – Effective tools and techniques to ensure all people are appropriately engaged.
- Module 12: Effective Feedback and Performance Appraisals – Feedback is the lifeblood of performance. Use simple tools to maximize the effectiveness of structured feedback.
Accelerated Leadership Skills:
- Module 13: Employee Engagement and Retention – How to capture employee discretionary effort, and minimize unwanted turnover.
- Module 14: Coaching, Feedback & 1:1 Meetings – Structured tools for maximizing the effectiveness of interaction with imployeees.
- Module 15: Employee Development & Succession Planning – How to quickly and effectively create a development plan, and how to move beyond training as the only method of employee development.
- Module 16: Communication Skills – Tools and techniques to create and maintain an effective communications loop with all of your key stakeholders.
- Module 17: Setting Expectations & Holding People Accountable – Learn the tools great managers use to ensure their people are accountable, without coming across like a steamroller.
Each Module includes:
- Audio summary of the module topic (about 20 minutes). You can listen to these podcasts online, or on your ipod/mp3 player.
- Podcast notes – a Powerpoint presentation to follow while you listen.
- Written information about the topic, for those who prefer reading over listening. These are easy to read in point form.
- Printable worksheets and checklists
- Suggested reading for those who want to learn even more
- An action challenge related to the module topic
Work at your own pace:
The Modules are presented sequentially – you gain access to one new Module every week, with each Module building on the skills you have already learned. You can complete the course in 17 weeks, or take as long as you like. There’s no pressure.
I’m ready to get started with Module 1 right NOW
Boot Camp participants also get:
- Access to the Wily Manager Discussion Forum – jump in and participate in discussions about a whole range of leadership topics (or just read if you’d rather)
- Advice about specific leadership situations – ask other leaders how they handled the situation and what was the outcome, and what would they do different next time
- Answers to management questions – ask Bob and Jed questions about any leadership or management topic you like. The sky’s the limit!
YES, I’m ready to get started with the Leadership Boot Camp
But it doesn’t end when the course is finished! After you complete the Wily Manager Leadership Boot Camp, you get:
- A Leadership Boot Camp completion certificate
- An ebook containing all of the course materials. You can print this ebook or save it on your own computer
- Lifetime access to the Leadership Boot Camp website (i.e. online access to all the course materials)
- Lifetime 25% discount on Wily Manager personal coaching (to find out more about personal coaching, please send an email to admin@wilymanager.com )
- Lifetime access to the ‘Leadership Boot Camp Alumni Association’ – a great place to network with other leaders and managers
I love the idea of lifetime career support. Sign me up!
There are lots of management courses out there…why should I choose the Wily Manager Leadership Boot Camp?
Who has time for a huge study program? We distill all of the management information that’s out there and give you just the information you need – the stuff that you need every day, on the front lines as a manager.
Management courses usually cost thousands of dollars. But our goal is to make management and leadership training affordable for every single manager, not just those who can get their organization to sponsor them for an expensive program.
The Leadership Boot Camp is perfect for my lifestyle and budget. I’m ready to get started.
There’s no risk.
We know that you will be thrilled with the Leadership Boot Camp, but you should be aware that we offer a 60-day ‘no-hassle’ 100% refund policy. Think of it as a free trial. Sign up and work through the program for a few weeks. If you feel that the Leadership Boot Camp is not helping you to succeed as a leader or manager, just let us know and we will cheerfully refund your money. You can even keep the materials you have already received, so there is absolutely no risk.
Yes, I’m ready to get started!
Click here to get started. You’ll be redirected to a secure Clickbank page and immediately after payment will receive instructions to get started with the Leadership Boot Camp. It’s fast, it’s easy, and you can get started today.


