Everyone deserves
a great manager
Inspiring learning experiences for people who lead people.
How it works
Our evidence-led learning experiences immerse managers in a motivating online social setting alongside their peers and our experts. We focus on the factors that are proven to have the biggest impact on employee engagement and well-being, resulting in a coaching style of leadership.
Assessment
Our learning experiences incorporate assessments that help managers understand themselves, and their opportunities for growth as leaders.
Bite-sized learning
Inspiring multimedia modules customised for each business, and built on scientific evidence and expert wisdom.
Expert guidance
Sessions are created and run by successful leaders from a range of backgrounds who are also highly accredited executive coaches.
Social learning
Throughout the journey, we bring managers together to learn socially, benefit from diverse perspectives, and gain peer-to-peer support.
Real practice
Since practice is key to embedding change, our learning experiences have a relentless focus on real-world application of skills.
Our core learning experiences
Confident manager
Build the foundations of great people-management with our customisable learning experience suited to all managers.
Confident manager
Build the foundations of great people-management with our customisable learning experience suited to all managers.
Confident coach
Master a coaching style of leadership - proven to be the most powerful factor driving sky-high performance and well-being.
Why it works
Most manager training doesn’t work. We call it “the great training robbery”. Why? Because learning to manage well is a complex skill like learning a language. Creating the right learning conditions is really hard. Combining everything we know about what’s important, we’ve made sure that Manageable really works.
No other learning programmes facilitate practice like we do. Knowledge without practice fades away quickly, but practising new skills can be scary.
We create safe spaces to practise at every opportunity. With peers, with experts, and with real coachees.
Our programs apply the best of behavioural and management science.
Everything we do is based on the best understanding of what is proven to have an impact, not on the shaky foundations of trendy management philosophies.
All the evidence points towards coaching skills as the most important framework for managers to learn. A coaching style of leadership improves employee engagement, wellbeing, and relationships like nothing else.
Great managers aren’t built in a day. It takes time for learnings to sink in, and for opportunities to embed learnings to arise. That’s why we space our programmes out over months.
Feedback is essential when learning a complex skill. Manageable experiences include the opportunity to get 360 degrees of feedback from our expert coaches, peers, colleagues, practice “coachees”, and even A.I.
The right teachers make learning come to life, and sink in much faster. Our expert coaches and course creators are renowned executive coaches with long experience in successful business careers. They’re a few cuts above the usual “trainer”.
Humans are social animals and learn best in a fun, informal, social environment. Our programmes include lots of small-group facilitated practice, keeping motivation sky-high.
No other learning programmes facilitate practice like we do. Knowledge without practice fades away quickly, but practising new skills can be scary.
We create safe spaces to practise at every opportunity. With peers, with experts, and with real coachees.
Our programs apply the best of behavioural and management science.
Everything we do is based on the best understanding of what is proven to have an impact, not on the shaky foundations of trendy management philosophies.
All the evidence points towards coaching skills as the most important framework for managers to learn. A coaching style of leadership improves employee engagement, wellbeing, and relationships like nothing else.
Great managers aren’t built in a day. It takes time for learnings to sink in, and for opportunities to embed learnings to arise. That’s why we space our programmes out over months.
Feedback is essential when learning a complex skill. Manageable experiences include the opportunity to get 360 degrees of feedback from our expert coaches, peers, colleagues, practice “coachees”, and even A.I.
The right teachers make learning come to life, and sink in much faster. Our expert coaches and course creators are renowned executive coaches with long experience in successful business careers. They’re a few cuts above the usual “trainer”.
Humans are social animals and learn best in a fun, informal, social environment. Our programmes include lots of small-group facilitated practice, keeping motivation sky-high.
Letter from the founders
Hi, we’re Inken and Farley, co-founders of Manageable (and husband and wife).
Hi,
If you’re a manager, or responsible for manager training, here’s a simple truth: you matter more than you know.
All the research points to the fact that managers are the heart and soul of organisations. Managers create the trust, energy, and psychological safety that fuel creativity and collaboration. They determine the company's ‘culture’ via thousands of small every-day actions.
Managers determine whether employees thrive—or barely survive.
And yet, throughout our corporate careers—and later coaching top CEOs—we’ve been struck by the same irony: senior leaders, who already know how to lead, get all the training investment, while managers get relatively little or nothing.
In fact, right now, 80% of managers have never had any training. No wonder employee engagement is at an 11-year low.
We founded Manageable to change this—to create manager training that is so ridiculously effective, it can’t be ignored. We’re here to equip managers and leaders with the skills, tools, and confidence to lead in a way that’s truly transformational. It’s based on the evidence of what really works, is actionable, and is designed to sink in deep.
At Manageable, we believe in managers. We believe everyone deserves a great manager. And we believe that workplaces should be a source of inspiration, growth, and joy.
Join us in making that vision a reality.
Warm regards,
Farley Thomas & Inken Thomas
Co-Founders, Manageable
We’re here to give everyone at work the gift of a great manager, one nudge at a time.
Transforming managers into confident coaches to their teams is a high-stakes challenge. Practice is key.
Study after study confirms that the managers of the top-performing teams are effective coaches.
Managers who coach achieve higher productivity and levels of engagement with their teams, leading to significant advantage in terms of sales, profits, customer satisfaction, product quality and employee turnover.
In today's rapid and highly competitive world, being an effective coach is not optional anymore, it’s essential.
Practice is key
Coaching is a complex skill like speaking a language. It is best learned socially with lots of real practice. Creating the right learning conditions is hard. Using decades of experience and the science of what works, we've come up with a way that makes it manageable.
“I am a significantly better leader for my team after my Manageable experience”
Nicholas Lawrence,
Director of Technology, CloudMargin
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