15Five Transform offers on-demand training and live coaching that's designed to help managers think as leaders who take action to keep their teams motivated, engaged, and thriving— leading to powerful business results.
In this article, you will learn...
- What is Transform?
- Benefits
- Offerings (Microlearning, On-demand training, Live group coaching, 1-on-1 coaching)
- FAQs
Access and availability
⛔️ Required access to Transform.
👥 This article is relevant to Account admins, HR admins, and Managers.
📦 This feature is available in the Transform and Transform Accelerator pricing packages.
What is Transform?
Transform is live and on-demand training and coaching for the modern manager— designed to build effective managers, highly-engaged employees, and top-performing organizations. Each course and concept is backed by evidence to help your leaders and teams thrive and perform at the same time.
Transform offerings teach managers how to:
- Leverage their own strengths
- Set objectives and make decisions
- Communicate, motivate, and inspire
- Drive performance, measure progress
- Give feedback that fosters growth
Transform coaching and training uses a blended learning solution in which managers learn best practices and share knowledge, practice the new skills and behaviors in a supportive learning environment, and get the resources they need to go out and apply these skills day-to-day in the flow of their work.
Benefits
Providing your managers with Transform training and coaching can lead to far-reaching benefits for your organization and the bottom line, including:
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Reducing Turnover: People don’t quit their company; they quit their managers. By equipping your managers with Transform training, they will learn effective leadership and communication skills, fostering positive relationships with their team members. This, in turn, can reduce turnover rates as employees feel more supported, valued, and engaged in their work.
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Increasing Engagement:Manager relationships are the #1 driver of employee engagement. When managers are well-trained in manager effectiveness principles, they can create a supportive and empowering work environment. Engaged employees are more likely to be productive, committed, and passionate about their roles, leading to higher overall team and organizational performance.
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Saving HR Time: 30% of HR time is spent addressing problems caused by poor people managers. Transform training enables managers to handle various workplace challenges proactively. When managers can effectively address issues, resolve conflicts, and support their team members, HR professionals can focus their efforts on strategic initiatives and fostering a positive company culture.
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Cultivating Growth: Create a culture of feedback that fosters personal and professional growth. Transform equips managers with the skills to provide constructive feedback and recognize their team's achievements. This fosters a culture of continuous improvement and learning, where employees feel supported in their development and are more likely to thrive in their roles.
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Aligning Teams: Empower managers to set effective and meaningful goals that motivate. With Transform, managers learn how to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals that align with the company's objectives. This ensures that individual and team efforts are well-coordinated, contributing to overall organizational success.
- Driving High Performance: Give managers the skills to remove roadblocks and get the most from their team. Through Transform, managers develop problem-solving and decision-making abilities. They can identify and eliminate obstacles that hinder team productivity, fostering a high-performance culture within the organization.
Offerings
Microlearning
Transform Microlearning is a powerful tool offered in 15Five's Total Platform pricing plan that's designed to enhance manager effectiveness within the flow of work with bite-sized learning and continuous development. Microlearnings are video courses with interactive content that follow the Transform Learning Model, which is built on the fundamentals of adult learning. Course participants will learn best practices and share knowledge, practice the new skills and behaviors in a supportive learning environment, and get the resources they need to go out and apply these skills day-to-day in the flow of their work.
We currently offer the following Microlearning courses, with additional courses added monthly:
Learn about the different types of stress and gain awareness of your unique stress response behaviors. You’ll explore and practice a stress management framework that can be used with your team to increase stress resilience.
Learn how recognition profoundly influences motivation, performance, and satisfaction at work. You’ll learn about our human tendency toward negativity, known as the Negativity Bias, and how you can use the power of recognition to overcome it. Delve into a technique known as Strengths Spotting-- created and endorsed by positive psychologists. With practical steps you'll learn to observe, explain, and value strengths in individuals and teams.
On-demand training
On-demand training is manager skill training from our curated course curriculum, and is available in our Transform and Transform Accelerator pricing plans. Admins can assign our recommended tracks to managers, or create their own custom tracks made up of selected courses from our course library.
We offer 2 recommended tracks: Manager Accelerator and Manager Essentials.
- The Manager Accelerator track is a comprehensive program designed to develop the skills and capabilities of managers and is relevant for people managers across all levels of experience, tenure, and function, including those who have extensive experience in people management. This track includes 7 courses, each ranging from 45-60 minutes: Context of Thriving, Building Strong Relationships, Role Clarity & Energizing Work, Goals & Priorities, Feedback for Redirection, Making 1-on-1s Meaningful, and Strengths & Career Vision.
- The Manager Essentials track can be thought of as an extended version of the Manager Accelerator track. It's focused on helping managers understand and live out the essential skills necessary to be an impactful manager. This track contains all of the courses included in Manager Accelerator, plus: Feedback for Appreciation, Managing Performance, Manager as Coach, DEI&B, and Moving from Burnout to Thriving.
If you want to create a custom track, you can select from the following courses:
Leading an organization through any change, big or small, is a challenge. Leaders who try, with the best of intentions, to lead transformational change get rejected by the system and pushed aside. In this course, we explore the Adaptive Leadership framework & equip learners to weather the storm of change in their organizations, develop strategies to lead confidently forward and enable their teams to thrive.
Learning Outcomes:
- Examine the difference between leadership and authority.
- Compare and contrast adaptive challenges and technical challenges.
- Learn how to lead adaptive change by depersonalizing conflict, regulating the heat, and creating a holding container for change to occur.
- Apply the Adaptive leadership framework to get your team unstuck and moving forward.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the relationship between psychological safety and high performance.
- Gain strategies to increase psychological safety in their workplace relationships.
- Apply the Best-Self Kickoff to strengthen relationships with employees.
- Gain awareness of relational energy and its implications for strong relationships and performance.
In this Kickoff course, participants will learn the foundations of the Best-Self Management philosophy, the “why,” and the science behind several of the keys to thriving and human potential. Understanding these concepts will underpin the skill sets managers will be developing throughout the Manager Accelerator. In particular, managers will learn how and why understanding and consistently incorporating these keys to thriving and human potential creates the foundation for highly engaged, high-performing teams and organizations.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the relationship between individual thriving & organizational performance and engagement.
- Identify strategies for creating wellness for themselves, in their relationships, and in their work culture.
- Create a learning goal (or self-development objective) to define how they aim to grow as a leader.
A feedback culture is foundational for any team to grow, adapt, and perform. Managers will gain a comprehensive understanding of feedback and its importance in team performance and engagement. Learn about the power of preparation and different dimensions of feedback. Explore ways to identify and address biases that may distort perceptions and hinder objectivity. Address the emotional challenges of feedback and learn how cultivating a growth mindset leads to more effective feedback.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn practices that normalize and integrate continuous feedback as an aspect of team culture.
- Identify biases that distort our perceptions, and learn how to minimize them for fairer feedback.
- Practice making specific and observational statements instead of judgments.
- Help yourself and your team be more receptive to feedback
In today’s global workforce, diversity is a competitive advantage. In this course, managers will learn a shared language to more effectively talk about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. They will get a chance to explore aspects of their own identity a necessary element in Being and Becoming their Best. Finally, they will learn how to bring inclusion into meetings in order to tap into the power of collective intelligence.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop definitions for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Understand how DEIB impacts employee engagement, performance, and innovation.
- Identify important aspects of their own identity.
- Gain strategies to demonstrate inclusion and build psychological safety in team meetings.
In this course, managers learn about delivering positive feedback effectively. They begin by understanding the power of positivity and why it’s so crucial to intentionally create positivity in our team cultures at work. Then, there will be opportunities to practice specific skills such as effectively recognizing and encouraging people. Managers will dive into a practice called strength spotting, the process by which we call out and reinforce people for their individual strengths and the impact of those strengths.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the negativity bias and the value of implementing a higher positivity ratio in feedback.
- Gain strategies to provide feedback to build strong relationships (eg. Strengths-Spotting, Active Constructive Responding).
- Understand the value of continual and strategic encouragement.
This course focuses on learning evidence-inspired practices to facilitate better conversations by sharing what you saw, heard, or noticed without layering judgments, assumptions, and inferences. Managers will learn the skill sets needed to deliver constructive feedback and redirection required for mindset or behavior change. They will practice the 15Five Best-Self Feedback model aimed at creating a safe and productive feedback conversation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how requesting feedback creates psychological safety.
- Gain strategies to receive feedback well.
- Gain strategies on how to give Feedback for Redirection (eg. observations, Non-violent Communication).
- Gain strategies for making agreements towards new action.
As a manager, goals are a powerful mechanism for motivating your people and aligning your team to accomplish extraordinary results for your organization. This course equips managers with the skills to create impactful goals to motivate their team and drive towards measurable outcomes. Participants will learn to design inspiring goals, support their team in executing and progressing towards them, and foster a culture of autonomy matched with accountability.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how a personal growth mindset impacts learning and performance.
- Identify their own intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.
- Gain strategies to set effective SMART goals, OKRs, Breakthrough Goals, and Learning Goals.
- Identify common challenges in goal setting.
- Gain strategies on how to set context, motivate, and make agreements for goal progress.
- Understand the importance of aligning individual goals with department goals.
- Gain strategies for weekly prioritization (eg. deep work, navigating whirlwinds).
- Gain strategies to support team members in re-goaling when priorities shift.
Many people spend 50% or more of their work time in meetings, yet 92% of employees consider meetings to be unproductive. In this course, we explore how to run an effective meeting by evaluating common meeting facilitation mistakes and identifying strategies to lead common meeting types. Finally, learners will audit their meetings to identify inefficiencies and make changes for higher levels of productivity.
Learning Outcomes:
- Evaluate the 12 components involved in leading effective meetings.
- Apply best practices to hold effective meetings for the most common meeting types.
- Audit current meetings processes to identify inefficiencies and create a plan for meeting facilitation improvement.
Forbes reported that 25% of all professional worker jobs are now remote. While the COVID pandemic pushed many companies to remote or hybrid work, this part of the way we work is here to stay. As a result, teams are drawing from the best of the best around the country or even the globe. The skill level and the diversity of thought are a competitive advantage. In this course, managers learn to sharpen their skills for managing and coaching individuals from different locations, outside of their company’s headquarters location.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand new theories around global leadership, DEI&B and more
- Adopt best practices for leading inclusive meetings with multilingual teams
- Examine the presence of cultural dimensions in the workplace
- Increase leadership competencies for leading globally
As a leader, 1-on-1s are one of the most important tools in your leadership tool kit to keep your people engaged, productive, and high performing. In this course, we’ll start by talking about the importance of having a one-time kickoff meeting at the start of your working relationship, before you even begin your continuous 1-on-1s. And then we'll go into what a successful 1-on-1 framework looks like. We’ll discuss how to prepare for your 1-on-1 meetings and how essential it is to relate and connect personally.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn effective frameworks to guide 1-on-1s.
- Gain strategies for building strong relationships during 1on1s (relating, psych. safety, role clarity).
- Gain strategies for leading continuous and effective dialogue during 1-on-1s (goals, feedback, growth, actions).
- Understand how to utilize asynchronous check-ins to supplement 1-on-1s.
Coaching really matters when it comes to producing higher levels of performance and engagement on your teams. It also has the power in deepening your connection with your people both personally and professionally. This course is designed to give you some powerful and actionable insights into how to become a better coach. These lessons will be dissecting what it means to go from a Manager to a Coach, and the shift in thinking and approach that is required for you to become a truly effective coach to your people.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the directive, situational and non-directive approaches to leading people.
- Gain strategies to apply non-directive coaching (eg. open-ended questions, active listening).
- Gain and demonstrate coaching competencies through mock peer coaching exercises.
Managing performance is a manager’s primary responsibility, but how does one effectively manage the performance of various individuals to create the most engaged and high-performing team? In this course, managers will become familiar with the blueprint of continuous performance management. They will gain strategies to fairly and objectively measure and assess performance and to have growth-based conversations with their people.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the value of clear agreements for fair reviews (company compensation policy, performance agreements).
- Identify common biases that impact performance reviews.
- Gain strategies to fairly assess performance (results, competencies).
- Gain strategies to have strengths-based growth and development conversations (eg. bi-annual, separate compensation conversations).
- Gain strategies to lead action planning conversation (eg. coaching up, coaching out)
In current times, “burnout” has become a blanket term to describe many experiences at work. But what is burnout? And how do we prevent it? In this course, managers will explore the stress landscape and learn how certain types of stress may lead to burnout. They will be able to define and identify symptoms of burnout as well as the causes that may be present in the workplace. Finally, they will learn about their responsibility in preventing burnout on their teams and gain strategies to keep their team members healthy and engaged.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain awareness of inequities involved in workplace stress.
- Understand the distinction between eustress and distress & their implications for burnout.
- Identify the leading symptoms of burnout.
- Gain strategies to prevent burnout for themselves and for their team members.
In this course, we’ll talk about where OKRs come from, a little bit about the history of this practice, and what makes an OKR. What does it stand for? Why does it matter? Managers will get into the mechanics of how to write an objective that is impactful and key results that are measurable. This course hits on the pitfalls of objectives and key results, especially when you're starting out. Finally, we're going to talk about how to check in on OKR progress, particularly in your one on ones or your team meetings.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how aligned & transparent goals lead to engagement and high performance.
- Gain strategies to create effective Objectives and Key Results.
- Identify potential pitfalls in setting effective OKRs.
In today’s work environment, remote work continues to be on the rise. Companies are becoming more flexible with their work-from-home policies as well as tapping into a distributed network to secure top talent. How do managers effectively manage these remote or dispersed teams? In this course, managers will explore the value of connection & collaboration in a remote environment and learn tips and tricks to build trust & create processes that will ultimately lead to psychological safety and innovation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain strategies for building trust remotely.
- Gain strategies for managing performance remotely.
- Gain strategies for collaborating remotely.
Clear expectations are the most basic and fundamental employee needs. Role Clarity is a key mechanism for creating the psychological safety required for innovative, nimble teams. In this course, participants will understand their responsibility to ensure clarity around roles and responsibilities. They will gain strategies to help their teams create clarity in project-based roles as well as in their role on a greater team or within the greater organization.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how role clarity and psychological safety affect performance.
- Gain strategies to create effective role and performance agreements.
- Learn frameworks that clarify and align teams on project-based role clarity.
A focus on career growth is one of the most effective ways to help individuals and teams to thrive. In this course, participants will learn how to identify, cultivate, and leverage their strengths, values, and passions to ultimately build an aligned vision for their career growth. Applying these skills to their own growth will inform their ability to support growth conversations with their employees.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of supporting the use of strengths at work.
- Identify top strengths, values, and passions and apply them to your role/work.
- Gain strategies to lead strengths-alignment discovery and career growth planning conversations with their direct reports.
Work Groups. Collaboration. Teamwork. On average, over 40% of an employee's workday is spent working in teams. However, a recent study showed that 72% of employees report having at least one “horrendous collaboration group experience.” In this course, we discuss and evaluate the elements necessary for successful team collaboration.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the team roles that you play the most often as well as roles that may be missing from your current teams.
- Compare communication styles and gain strategies for effective communication with other styles.
- Implement a collaboration plan to aid in solving relevant team problems.
Live group coaching
Live coaching is a series of private, 60-minute group coaching sessions with our certified in-house coaches, delivered to cohorts of up to 10 managers every month. Live coaching is only available in our Transform Accelerator pricing plan.
Each session is focused on helping the group process their experiences, share learnings, identify opportunities, and create collective accountability for growth and development. The group will commit to a particular outcome or learning objective for each session.
Some focus areas that coaches typically work with manager cohorts on are:
Change is something that all leaders face. Your coach can help you prepare or walk through times of change. This may look like creating a plan, processing what is happening, or practicing for upcoming conversations.
1:1 Coaching
1:1 coaching is a partnership between a coachee and one of 15Five’s certified coaches, focused on the coachee’s individual goals. 1:1 coaching sessions can be purchased for individuals in companies on any pricing plan; to do so, an admin can reach out to your 15Five Account Executive (AE).
This form of coaching is great for leaders of all levels who would benefit from bridging the disconnect between what they know and what they apply in the flow of work. Each session is a collaborative conversation focused on helping the individual gain the tools they need to achieve their goals. Their coach will use strategic coaching tools— inquiry, self-reflection, role play, skill development, etc.— to support them through the process of increasing self-awareness, practicing new skills or mindsets, and taking in feedback.
FAQs
Here are some common questions you may receive about coaching and some insights from our team. Feel free to reference these answers or message us at support@15five.com for additional support.