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Nobody hands new managers a manual. You get a title, a direct report, and a whole lot of assumptions that you'll just figure it out.
The New Manager Survival Kit is the manual I wish someone had handed me. It's a 30-page printable toolkit built from 25+ years inside HR, as a director, a consultant, and the person new managers called when they were in over their heads. Every page is something I've actually used, coaching real managers through their first year: the 1:1 agenda that stops meetings from going sideways, the script for the conversation you're dreading, the worksheet for the week you're questioning whether you're cut out for this.
No leadership theory. No 40-slide deck. Just 22 fill-in-the-blank templates, scripts, and worksheets covering everything from your first 30 days to the moment an employee cries in your office and you don't know what to say.
Print it and keep it on your desk, or fill it in digitally on your tablet or in Acrobat. Either way, it's built to be used, not just read once and forgotten in a drawer.
Part One: Get Your Footing The mindset shift from doing the work to leading the people who do it, plus your first 30 days and your 30-60-90 day plan.
Part Two: Running Your Team The weekly mechanics: 1:1 agendas, a team working agreement, a delegation audit, and how to manage up as well as you manage down.
Part Three: The Hard Stuff Scripts and worksheets for tough conversations, giving feedback fast, de-escalating conflict, and the "Oh Sh*t" page for the emergencies nobody trains you for.
Part Four: Keeping Yourself Together Boundary scripts, a weekly self-check-in, and reminder cards for the days management humbles you a little.
30-page printable PDF, instant digital download
22 templates, scripts, and worksheets
Standard 8.5" x 11", prints clean in black-and-white or color
Fillable on-screen with any PDF annotator, or print and write by hand
Written and designed by an HR executive with 25+ years of real experience, not a template mill
Nobody hands new managers a manual. You get a title, a direct report, and a whole lot of assumptions that you'll just figure it out.
The New Manager Survival Kit is the manual I wish someone had handed me. It's a 30-page printable toolkit built from 25+ years inside HR, as a director, a consultant, and the person new managers called when they were in over their heads. Every page is something I've actually used, coaching real managers through their first year: the 1:1 agenda that stops meetings from going sideways, the script for the conversation you're dreading, the worksheet for the week you're questioning whether you're cut out for this.
No leadership theory. No 40-slide deck. Just 22 fill-in-the-blank templates, scripts, and worksheets covering everything from your first 30 days to the moment an employee cries in your office and you don't know what to say.
Print it and keep it on your desk, or fill it in digitally on your tablet or in Acrobat. Either way, it's built to be used, not just read once and forgotten in a drawer.
Part One: Get Your Footing The mindset shift from doing the work to leading the people who do it, plus your first 30 days and your 30-60-90 day plan.
Part Two: Running Your Team The weekly mechanics: 1:1 agendas, a team working agreement, a delegation audit, and how to manage up as well as you manage down.
Part Three: The Hard Stuff Scripts and worksheets for tough conversations, giving feedback fast, de-escalating conflict, and the "Oh Sh*t" page for the emergencies nobody trains you for.
Part Four: Keeping Yourself Together Boundary scripts, a weekly self-check-in, and reminder cards for the days management humbles you a little.
30-page printable PDF, instant digital download
22 templates, scripts, and worksheets
Standard 8.5" x 11", prints clean in black-and-white or color
Fillable on-screen with any PDF annotator, or print and write by hand
Written and designed by an HR executive with 25+ years of real experience, not a template mill