Learn leadership — for the first promotion, the first team, the first hard call.
Strive builds a leadership course around the situations a first-time manager actually walks into — the awkward 1:1, the underperformer, the team that doesn’t trust you yet. Lessons stream live, and a daily recall queue keeps the moves close at hand.
Run a 1:1 that your report actually looks forward to — agenda, cadence, follow-through.
Give feedback that lands — specific, timely, separated from identity, and acted on.
Handle underperformance with a fair, documented arc instead of avoidance or sudden termination.
Build trust with a team that didn’t pick you — credibility, vulnerability, and consistency.
Make decisions under uncertainty without freezing, and explain them after the fact.
Delegate without losing the thread — clear ownership, checkpoints, and rescue plans.
Apply the moves to a real situation you’re currently facing on your team.
A typical Strive course on Leadership
The shift — from doer to manager of doers3 lessons
1:1s that your report looks forward to4 lessons
Feedback that lands — specific, timely, kind4 lessons
Underperformance — the fair, documented arc4 lessons
Building trust with a team that didn’t pick you3 lessons
Decisions under uncertainty3 lessons
Delegation without losing the thread3 lessons
Demonstration outline — your course is generated around your answers, so module count, depth, and difficulty will differ from this. Across the 7 modules above there are 24 lessons.
Frequently asked
I’m about to manage people for the first time — is this for me?
Yes — that’s exactly the audience. The wizard asks where you are: about to be promoted, recently promoted, or stuck on a specific situation. The course reshapes around that.
Can I bring a real situation into the course?
Yes. Tell the wizard about a current challenge — an underperformer, a low-trust team, a hard call you’re postponing — and the worked examples in the relevant module will use that scenario.
Does it cover senior leadership / executive work?
The default is first-time managers. You can bias the course towards senior-IC-to-manager, manager-of-managers, or director-level work in the wizard, and the modules adjust — though the deepest examples remain at the team level.
Ready to learn Leadership?
Tell us where you are today. AI builds your course in minutes — and the daily recall queue makes sure you keep what you learn.