Corporate Division
Middle Management Fundamentals
Lead. Delegate. Nap.
Tuition: $4,600 or 24 easy payments of $212.
A foundational program in the art of overseeing direct reports who are also direct reports to someone else. Students master the core middle-management competencies: forwarding emails, scheduling meetings about meetings, and nodding.
Whiskerworks middle managers hold positions at regional firms across seven industries, none of which have noticed.
What You'll Learn
- ›Schedule a recurring weekly one-on-one and attend zero of them
- ›Forward an email with the word 'thoughts?' and take full credit for any reply
- ›Deliver performance feedback that is technically neither positive nor negative
- ›Sit in on a meeting without contributing and still be perceived as senior
- ›Author a memo that commits to nothing
- ›Delegate everything, including the delegation
Program Syllabus
You are the box in the middle. Draw many lines.
Reply-all, forward, 'per my last,' and the 'quick q.'
Standing, sitting, walking — four hours a day, minimum.
'Exceeds in some areas, meets in others' — say this 11 times a year.
A Word document nobody will read, but you will Gantt.
Forty slides. Twelve attendees. One nap, discreetly.
Your Instructor
Director Toffee holds the only dual appointment in the Corporate Division. His most-cited deck, 'Q3 Synergy,' is 47 slides long and has never been presented. He wears a lanyard at all times.
Research Interests: Calibri, one-on-ones, escalation.
Tuition: $4,600 or 24 easy payments of $212.
Financing through Regional Guaranteed Capital Solutions LLC. APR 9.99%-39.99%. Terms apply.
