Grow, Succeed And Enjoy Your Journey In Management
A practical course designed to magnify your impact and joy
while honing the skills of your team, division or enterprise.
Become a skilled and inspirational Manager in just 9 weeks!
Feeling lost and overwhelmed as a manager?
Are you a newly promoted manager, senior leader or business founder grappling with the management ropes?
You're not alone in this challenging journey. Many leaders are thrust into their roles without adequate training and coaching to manage and lead their teams effectively. Despite their passion, dedication, and motivation, they often lack the essential tools and knowledge to support and nurture their employees successfully.
Here's a snapshot of the common struggle:
- Sudden Responsibility: Like many industries, you're promoted to a team leader or manager, congratulated, given a modest salary bump, and expected to figure everything out on your own. Suddenly, you're supposed to possess the knowledge and authority to manage both yourself and your team effectively.
- Learning the Hard Way: Many experienced managers, including myself, have learned through trial and error, making significant mistakes and poor judgments along the way. This arduous journey has led many of us through unnecessary periods of doubt, stress, anxiety, and failures.
- The Toll of Tough Lessons: Learning through hardships leads to exhaustion and frustration. Management should be a rewarding and enjoyable experience, at least part of the time. Unfortunately, too few managers experience this joy.
It's Time To Reduce The Overwhelm And Increase The Reward Of Your Management Journey
Introducing...
The Manager Maker
9 Week Online Program
Introducing the "The Manager Maker" – the culmination of 20 years of real-world management experiences designed to equip you with authentic and practical management tools.
This course was designed to stop you from having to learn everything ‘the hard way’ and reduce your timeline to success as a leader and manager of people.
The Manager Maker course is meticulously crafted to offer:
Practical Insights & Tips
- Gain a fresh perspective or a timely reminder of the simpler yet powerful opportunities at your disposal to foster a high-performing and positive team culture.
Comprehensive
Learning
- Self-Awareness: Understand your own management style and its impact on your team.
- Strength-Based Workforce: Learn to identify and leverage the unique strengths of each team member.
- Navigating Difficult Chapters: Acquire strategies to handle challenging situations and team dynamics effectively.
- High performance and growth: Learn how to recruit successfully and ensure high performance of new and current team members.
A Reminder
of Reward
- Rekindle your understanding that management is not just a role, but a rewarding journey, and you have the power to make a significant difference from the very first step.
Confidence & Enjoyment
- Boost your confidence and, most importantly, have more fun embracing the many opportunities that come with managing people and their diverse talents.
What Other's Say
Jodene
Consultant, BPO Expert
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As a senior corporate leader with over 20 years experience, finally there is a course out there that you can give to emerging leaders, existing managers who need some guidance or to seasoned professionals who need to freshen up. The Manager Maker is relatable, friendly, easily digestible and comes with a tonne of valuable resources Managers can use immediately in their role. An absolutely fantastic course!
Hendrik
Partner, Recruitment Business
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Managers are expected to perform from day one without getting the training required to step up into management. The Manager Maker course fills this gap and equips everyone new to management as well as seasoned managers with the training and knowledge needed to elevate their management skills to the next level.
Georgina
BD Associate Director, Management Consultancy
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I love the bite size videos and the transcriptions and I am finding it all very grounded and useful. Sometimes this type of stuff can take me too far out of my 'normal' and then it isn’t practical. This is all genuinely gold as it helps tie up things that I know intuitively but gives me a brilliant structure to work within.
Alvaro
Growth, SaaS Business
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This course is a must-have resource for newcomers into the world of management, but also for seasoned managers who did not have previous training on the matter. Each module is practical and full of insights.
Well done!
During the program you will:
✓ Be able to gain a deep understanding of your individual team members.
✓ Develop an adaptive management style.
✓ Enhance your team productivity and cohesion.
✓ Reduce any workplace conflict and foster a positive environment.
✓ Equip yourself with tried and tested management tools.
What the program includes:
✓ Tailored Leadership Modules: Comprehensive and very practical training with 9 modules tailored to a variety of leadership situations, along with supporting templates and worksheets.
✓ Instructional Video Library: Over 10 hours of instructional videos paired with downloadable tools to facilitate hands-on experience.
✓ Engage & Interact: Opportunity for direct interaction with Andrea for your questions and challenges via the course Q&A and optional live calls.
This isn't just another video course!
We know that for you to get the most out of this program and to become the best manager you can be, that you need really practical support and tools that work - not just more video learning.
This is why we have made our downloadable resources such a huge part of the program!
There are over 60 pages of editable worksheets, templates and cheatsheets ready for you to start using today including a self-awareness map, self-reflection journal, team meeting audit, team culture workshop guidelines, performance review questions, personal development plans and much more!
Let's Take A Closer Look At What's Inside The Program
Understanding Yourself
Investing in yourself and being aware of your own strengths and weaknesses will make you a much stronger leader and more effective manager.
Let's Get To Know Your Team
Remind and clarify each team member's role, purpose and key accountabilities so together you can drive impact across your team, division or company
Building A Team Culture
Meetings, communications, recognition and knowledge sharing all form critical parts in creating a happy and productive team.
Performance Management
Performance management is a huge part of being a manager and with the right foundations, mindset and planning it can be one of the keys to your success.
Recruitment
Discover 'the art of recruitment' and how to identify the right talent and embrace the opportunities a recruitment drive will provide you.
Onboarding & Offboarding
Set the tone for success and discover the value and insight gained in powerful onboarding and offboarding processes.
Learning & Development
Growing people and helping them thrive under your care, is one of the higher rewards and fun aspects of management so discover the best ways to do this, no matter the budget.
Technology Is Your Friend
Technology is your friend not your foe and an opportunity to support you in following best practice.
Managing Your Stakeholders
Learn how best to manage your stakeholders strategically so that you get what you want and stand out from the crowd.
"Andrea has this magic super power..."
LinkedIn Reviews For Recent Work With Andrea
Aman Khurana
Co- CEO & Co-Founder at Go Instore
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Andrea joined us at a time when we had significantly scaled our team and we needed a seasoned pro to help us ensure that everyone within the organisation understood and embraced the culture and had review, growth and development plans in place. Andrea delivered and was an absolute pleasure to work with. Andrea is as comfortable and effective at making a new member of the team feel at home within minutes of their arrival as well as discussing strategy and planning at board level. Andrea is a huge asset to any organisation she chooses to work with.
Anne-Christine Polet
Fashion | Change | Technology
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The work that Andrea has done with Stitch has been so incredibly valuable to our culture and our teams! Andrea had this magic super power of being able to connect with humans of all kinds and minds. The perfect mix of emotional and intellectual intelligence, combined with a huge amount of experience across industries and disciplines. Our favorite weeks of the year so far have been the time that Andrea has spent with us on-site. Literally couldn't recommend her more – she’s a real talent super hero.
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✔️ 9 comprehensive modules covering real life management scenarios.
✔️ 10+ hours of actionable video content.
✔️ Over 60 downloadable and editable resources for hands-on training to match your style, industry and company.
✔️ Pay-as-you-go live monthly group coaching calls ($85)
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Why work with me?
Hi, I'm Andrea Nicol
For two decades, I've journeyed through the intricacies of management, from head girl to a corporate manager. Traditional methods felt generic, ineffective and quite frankly no fun! I read many books, asked many mentors, made many mistakes and at times, felt very alone and overwhelmed.
Sadly, in my current role as a global consultant and advisor, I see my management journey being repeated more so than ever.
After numerous trials, errors, and breakthroughs, and after advising and building multiple companies and cultures, I now understand the essence of effective people management, so I designed this course to start to fix this problem.
It is designed not to overwhelm, so remains high-level, practical and actionable in the hope that your journey is not so arduous and you can quickly get back to enjoying your career and most importantly developing the talent to thrive under your care.
Testimonials
LinkedIn Reviews For Recent Work With Andrea
Charlie Winton
Founder | Start Up Awards Winner 2023 | Great British Entrepreneur Awards Winner
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Andrea has been an incredible support to me as the founder of OK Positive. Her insight into the start up world with an emphasis on growth, both commercially and personally has been invaluable to me. Her work has enabled me to have a clearer outlook on how to manage life as a founder with growing a business. I could not recommend her more highly and would encourage others to speak with her and learn more how she can support you and your business.
Pavel Bushmelev
Cloud Platform Director
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Andrea has played a significant role in my professional development but I will try to describe this from the broader team's perspective. She's helped the team overcome various difficult challenges, established an internal education and knowledge exchange program and solidified effective management practices. That includes prompt talent acquisition, performance management, effort recognition, staff empowerment as well as honest feedback and more. Andrea's experience allows the company to anticipate situations which enable the organization to remain in control of feedback and more.
Luke McKeever
CEO & Advisor
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Andrea has been helping us in a senior capacity to hire, retain and develop our talent for some time and has made a real difference to our business. She offers a powerful blend of skills: Infectious energy, strong commercial acumen, wonderful inter-personal skills and a caring, empathetic working style. Andrea has helped us to build a fabulous culture and a world-class team.
Nikolay Diakov
Engineering Manager at Ingka IKEA
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Andrea has helped me organize our sources of talent, stream line our role definitions, and has provided various training for my manager team across all three office locations. She has advised on senior stakeholder management, and helped put business cases in perspective from financial and talent point of view.
