Program overview
Manager Mastery™ Explainer Video
An introduction to the program and its approach to developing managers.
A personal welcome
From the Desk of Jerry Ervin
Thank you for following my invitation to take a closer look at Manager Mastery™.
I created this page to give you a useful preview of how we help managers build trust, lead their teams, and get results through others. Watch the videos, explore the tools, and consider where the managers on your team need support.
Then reply to my message and tell me what stood out. I’d welcome a conversation about how this could work for your team.
KEEP GROWING™
Jerry Ervin
CEO & Founder, Grow Yourself Academy™
Manager Mastery™ · For company teams
Give your managers the tools to lead through others.
The 9 Shifts to Build Trust, Lead Teams, and Drive Results. Explore the resources your managers receive—and the guided experience that helps them put the learning to work.
The foundational program in the Maker to Multiplier™ Leadership Certification System.
Start with a preview
Get to know Manager Mastery.
Explore the overall program, then watch the individual Shift previews below. Consider the management situations your team needs to handle more effectively.
Audio only · 24 minutes
Manager Mastery™ Deep Dive
A longer audio exploration of Manager Mastery for leaders considering the program for their teams.
Looking for a particular challenge? Go to the nine Shift previews.
Take a look inside the program
Six resources.
A practical foundation your managers can use.
Explore the marketing samples Jerry has selected from each resource. See the approach, the practical tools, and the way the materials connect to real management work before we discuss your team.
Abridged PDF sample
Book
The change from expert doer to people leader.
Inside this sample: Program introduction and selected leadership chapters.
Open the Book sample
Abridged PDF sample
Study Guide
Connect each leadership Shift to the way you lead.
Inside this sample: Selected learning objectives, lessons, reflection, and application.
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Abridged PDF sample
Workbook
Prepare for the situations your managers face at work.
Inside this sample: Selected worksheets and examples for practical use.
Open the Workbook sample
Assessment PDF sample
Assessment
Use reflection to identify development priorities.
Inside this sample: Developmental self-assessment directions and rating items.
Open the Assessment sample
Abridged PDF sample
Implementation Guide
Turn the learning into deliberate workplace action.
Inside this sample: Selected workplace actions, reflection, and implementation guidance.
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Abridged PDF sample
90 Day Roadmap
Give the learning a practical rhythm over 90 days.
Inside this sample: Abridged 90-day sequence and review checkpoints.
Open the 90 Day Roadmap sampleThese are the marketing samples selected by Jerry Ervin. The complete program resources and guided experience are provided through the program.
What every manager receives
The resources. The practice.
The plan to follow through.
The Book explains the Shifts. The Study Guide supports reflection. The Workbook and Mini-Workbooks prepare managers for action. The Implementation Guide and Roadmap carry the learning into work.
Book
Understand the shift from expert to leader.
The Manager Mastery™ Book introduces the nine leadership Shifts and the thinking behind them.
What it helps them do: A foundation to revisit when everyday leadership gets difficult.
Study Guide
Work through the ideas. Make them personal.
Learning objectives, scenarios, reflection prompts, coaching questions, and knowledge checks connect each Shift to the manager’s own team.
What it helps them do: A way to move from understanding an idea to preparing to use it.
Workbook
Work through a real situation before you act.
The Workbook brings the nine approved tools together with instructions, examples, and working pages.
What it helps them do: Practical preparation for clearer assignments, feedback, meetings, conflict, and delegation.
90-Question Developmental Assessment
Identify where development needs attention.
An optional developmental self-assessment supports reflection, baseline and follow-up comparison, and planning. It is not a performance rating or a completion requirement.
What it helps them do: A clearer starting point for focused development conversations.
Implementation Guide
Put the nine Shifts to work.
Workplace actions, reflection, implementation activities, and commitments connect the learning to the manager’s current challenges.
What it helps them do: A useful reference for the next conversation, decision, meeting, or delegation.
90 Day Roadmap
Stabilize. Build. Multiply.
A standalone 90-day sequence supports trust, clarity, and priorities; team capacity, feedback, and meetings; then conflict, delegation, and leadership identity.
What it helps them do: A structured rhythm for repeated application and reviewing evidence of progress.
Nine Shift Mini-Workbooks
One practical tool for each Shift.
The nine approved Mini-Workbooks support focused practice with the Trust Builder™, Clarity Check™, Priority Filter™, Team Capacity Map™, Feedback Planner™, Meeting Outcome Tracker™, Conflict Reset Framework™, Delegation Starter Map™, and Leadership Identity Audit™.
What it helps them do: A place to prepare, practice, and record workplace application.
Videos & PDF Presentation Decks
Keep the key ideas in view.
Video resources and approved presentation decks support the Manager Mastery™ learning experience. The marketing previews on this page introduce the approach.
What it helps them do: Visual and audio resources to revisit alongside the guides and tools.
Workplace Practice & Knowledge Checks
Apply the learning to current team challenges.
Exercises, scenarios, reflection, and knowledge checks connect the lessons to actual conversations, priorities, and decisions.
What it helps them do: Practice with the management work already in front of them.
Final Practice Plan
Turn insight into specific commitments.
The final Manager Mastery™ practice plan identifies a priority Shift, leadership habits to practice, and the first actions to take.
What it helps them do: A personal continuation plan for building trust, developing people, and increasing team ownership.
Optional Accountability Partner
Invite support for application and reflection.
A manager, HR partner, mentor, or another trusted person may review learning and workplace evidence. Their participation and sign-off are optional; self-completion is sufficient.
What it helps them do: A conversation about what they are practicing and what changed.
Nine Shifts. Nine previews.
See where your managers need the next Shift.
Each marketing video introduces a specific leadership Shift. Explore the previews alongside the practical tools included in the full program.
What the company receives
Guided application.
Shared expectations.
Visible follow-through.
A six-week company cohort for five to twelve managers, facilitated by Jerry Ervin and supported by a 90-day implementation rhythm.
Direct facilitation with Jerry
Six live, 75-minute virtual sessions connect the nine Shifts to real management situations. Managers work through examples, discuss challenges, and practice applying the tools.
Workplace application
Between sessions, managers apply the learning to current team challenges, reflect on their experience, and use discussion prompts to learn with their peers.
Sponsor alignment & reviews
Kickoff alignment clarifies development priorities. A midpoint pulse and final sponsor debrief review application, observed wins, challenges, and recommended next steps.
The company cohort covers Manager Mastery™. The broader Leadership Certification System is a separate development journey.
The 90 Day Roadmap
Give the learning somewhere to go.
The approved Roadmap connects the resources into a sequence of workplace practice, reflection, and evidence of progress.
Stabilize.
Build trust, create clarity, and establish a visible approach to priorities.
Build.
Develop team capacity, coach through feedback, and make meetings more purposeful.
Multiply.
Address tension earlier, develop others through delegation, and strengthen leadership identity.
Where this fits: Manager Mastery™ may be completed independently. It provides the team-leadership foundation within the Maker to Multiplier™ Leadership Certification System, which also includes Executive Time Mastery™, Delegation Mastery™, Leadership Mastery™, and the Force Multiplier™ Bonus Program.
Where are your managers
getting stuck?
Let’s talk about the gaps you’re seeing, the managers who would benefit, and how Manager Mastery™ could support your team.
Discuss Manager Mastery for your team
Jerry Ervin · CEO & Founder
707-800-9474
jerryervin@growyourselfacademy.com