Membership Benefit · Year-Long Curriculum
52 Weeks to Better Manager
A year-long weekly program that turns you from a nervous new manager into a confident leader. One email per week. One hour to absorb. Part of Membership when it opens.
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52 Weeks is one of the benefits of Membership. Membership opens when every benefit is ready — not before. Waitlist members lock in founder pricing for as long as they stay.
How It Works
Simple structure. Every Member, every week, one focused email.
You join Membership at launch
You start at Week 1, no matter when you join. Everyone begins at the beginning.
Every week, one email
A focused lesson you can read and apply in under an hour. No fluff, no filler. Just what you need that week.
After 52 weeks, you're transformed
You've gone from "I have no idea what I'm doing" to leading with confidence. One week at a time.
What You'll Learn, Quarter by Quarter
The program follows the natural arc of your first year as a manager.
Survive
Your first 90 days. How to run your first 1-on-1. Giving feedback without destroying relationships. Setting expectations. Building trust from scratch. The fundamentals that keep you from drowning.
Stabilize
Building processes that actually work. Delegation without micromanaging. Having difficult conversations. Handling conflict. Making your first hire. Moving from reactive to proactive.
Grow
Developing your people. Building team culture intentionally. Coaching vs. directing. Performance reviews that actually help. Strategic thinking. Becoming the leader your team deserves.
Lead
Setting vision. Managing change. Mentoring others. Building your leadership identity. Preparing for what's next. You started as a new manager. Now you're a leader.
Why This Works Better Than a Book or a Course
It meets you where you are.
A book dumps 300 pages on you at once. A course expects 20 hours upfront. This gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. One lesson per week, timed to match your actual journey.
One hour a week. That's it.
Read the email. Try the one thing it suggests. Reflect on how it went. You're already busy managing a team. This fits into your life, not the other way around.
It builds on itself.
Week 1 skills make Week 10 skills possible. By the end of the year, you haven't just learned 52 disconnected tips. You've built a complete management toolkit, layer by layer.
It's from someone who's been there.
Every lesson comes from real experience: real mistakes, real wins, real conversations. Not a professor who studies management. A person who survived it.
Why 52 Weeks Lives Inside Membership
A curriculum is one thing. A curriculum plus the tools to actually run on what you are learning is a different thing.
By the time you open the Week 4 email about your first 1-on-1, Membership has already given you the 1-on-1 Meeting Kit as part of your toolkit access. By the time you open Week 11 on difficult conversations, you have the Difficult Conversations Scripts Pack on hand. The curriculum and the tools were designed together, and they only land fully when they are used together.
That is why 52 Weeks is part of Membership. Not because it should not exist for free. Because it should not exist on its own.
What Membership includes
- Every paid toolkit, no per-toolkit purchase — plus a Member feedback channel that shapes the next version of each one.
- The full 52 Weeks to Better Manager curriculum, one focused email per week for a year.
- Your private library: save anything from the public site to your dashboard, plus Member-only content (deeper articles, exclusive quizzes, exclusive calculators not available publicly).
- A direct line to George — Ask anything, your call whether the answer stays private or becomes an anonymized public article.
- Private community — every voice verified as a first-time manager. No senior watching, no impersonators, no audience to perform for. Last but not least.
Membership opens when every benefit on this list is ready. Not before. Founding pricing locks in for as long as you stay, regardless of where the public price lands.
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