You hired smart people.
Now you’re spending months teaching them how to work.
Real Work Ready™ is a professional performance program that builds the operating capabilities organizations depend on — but rarely have time to teach.
We don’t train “soft skills.”
We build professional operating performance.
So your people contribute sooner, your managers spend less time correcting fundamentals, and your organization gains reliable, ready-to-operate talent
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THE REAL PROBLEM (MANAGER & BUSINESS PAIN)
The hidden cost of early talent is not hiring.
It’s operational unreadiness.
Your new hires are capable.
But in the first 3–9 months, your managers are spending disproportionate time on:
- Correcting unclear communication
- Re-aligning technically good but context-missed work
- Re-explaining expectations
- Walking people through prioritization
- Fixing follow-through breakdowns
- Managing handoffs that shouldn’t be fragile
- Translating feedback that doesn’t stick
This is not high-value leadership development.
This is teaching professional operating fundamentals reactively.
The cost is real:
• slower ramp to productivity
• constant micro-corrections
• manager bandwidth drain
• rework and misalignment
• inconsistent professional standards
• delayed contribution
• preventable early attrition
WHY THIS KEEPS HAPPENING
Operational readiness is owned by no one.
Onboarding covers the company.
Training covers tools and technical skills.
Leadership programs come later.
But no one systematically teaches:
- How work actually flows
- How managers evaluate performance
- How to communicate for actionÂ
- How to manage expectations and updates
- How to exercise judgment
- How to protect outcomes through ownership
So managers teach it informally.
Inconsistently.
Reactively.
One person at a time.
At enormous cost.Â
THE REAL WORK READY™ PERFORMANCE MODEL
What your managers are already evaluating — whether it’s named or not.
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Everything in Real Work Ready™ is built on a defined performance system:
the six professional operating capabilities that determine whether someone is experienced as effective, reliable, and ready.
Organizational Awareness
 Understanding how work flows, how decisions are made, how priorities connect to outcomes, and how performance is evaluated.
Execution & Follow-Through
How work is handled, clarified, tracked, delivered, and closed.
Communication & Clarity
How work moves through people — updates, meetings, documentation, feedback, and alignment.
Judgment & Prioritization
 How professionals assess tradeoffs, manage risk, make decisions, and operate without constant instruction.
Ownership & Reliability
How outcomes are protected across handoffs, timelines, and dependencies.
Professional Presence & Credibility
 How trust, readiness, and promotability are built over time.
This is what managers experience as “performance.”
 Real Work Ready™ gives your organization a shared performance language, standard, and development system around these capabilities.
(This is where the visual model lives.)
WHAT REAL WORK READY™ BUILDS IN YOUR PEOPLE
Participants don’t leave with awareness.
They leave operating differently.
They begin to:
- Communicate in ways managers can immediately use
- Clarify expectations before work starts
- Surface risks before they become problems
- Prioritize with business context
- Follow through without being chased
- Escalate appropriately
- Think in outcomes, not just tasks
- Manage their role inside a system
This is the shift from:
“capable but managed”
to
“capable and operationally reliable.”
WHAT REAL WORK READY™ BUILDS IN YOUR PEOPLE
Participants don’t leave with awareness.
They leave operating differently.
They begin to:
- Communicate in ways managers can immediately use
- Clarify expectations before work starts
- Surface risks before they become problems
- Prioritize with business context
- Follow through without being chased
- Escalate appropriately
- Think in outcomes, not just tasks
- Manage their role inside a system
This is the shift from:
“capable but managed”
to
“capable and operationally reliable.”
BUSINESS IMPACT & ROI
Organizations that build operating capability see:
âś“ Faster ramp to contribution
Employees reach baseline professional effectiveness months sooner.
âś“ Protected manager time
Dramatically reduced hours spent teaching fundamentals, correcting communication, and reworking misaligned output.
âś“ Higher-quality execution
Fewer clarification loops, missed expectations, and late surprises.
âś“ Stronger ownership
People understand what they’re accountable for — and follow through.
âś“ Better judgment under pressure
Improved prioritization, escalation, and decision communication.
âś“ Consistent professional standards
Shared operating language across cohorts and teams.
âś“ Improved engagement and retention
Employees feel capable sooner, not confused for years.
Real Work Ready™ is not a training expense.
It is a performance acceleration investment.
WHAT THE PROGRAM ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
Live. Facilitated. Practice-based.
Live. Facilitated. Practice-based.
Real Work Ready™ is a six-week cohort program.
Each week includes:
This is not passive learning.
You don’t watch content.
You practice how to operate. |
THE SIX-WEEK PERFORMANCE BUILD
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EXPLORE THE FULL PROGRAMDELIVERY OPTIONS
Public cohorts
Employees join professionals from other organizations.
Best for:
High-potential talent, pilot programs, individual development needs
Private team cohorts
Dedicated Real Work Ready™ cohort for your organization.
Best for:
Onboarding groups, rotational programs, campus hiring, early-career development
Includes:
- Dedicated facilitator
- Flexible scheduling
- Optional organization-specific scenarios
- Manager briefings
- Completion reporting
- Minimum: 10 participants
Custom programs
Tailored implementations aligned to your operating environment. May include:
- Organization-specific casework
- Â Integration with internal competency models
- Manager enablement sessions
- Leadership involvement
- Extended or compressed timelines
- Measurement and reinforcement support
Best for:
Strategic talent initiatives and scaled rollout.
WHO THIS IS DESIGNED FOR
Real Work Ready™ is built for organizations that:
âś“Â Â Hire early-career professionals or career changers
âś“Â Run onboarding, rotational, or emerging talent programs
âś“Â Experience extended ramp times
âś“Â Want to reduce manager coaching burden
âś“Â Need consistent professional standards
âś“Â Are scaling teams quickly
âś“Â Care about performance quality, not just effort
Let’s talk about building operating readiness in your organization.
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We’ll discuss your context, your talent population, and the delivery model that fits your needs.
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The real cost of operational unreadiness
This isn't just about your time. The data:
- 61% of managers lack bandwidth to teach operational fundamentals effectively
- 81% of managers report new hires need 6+ months to reach full productivity
- 8–12 months without structured operational readiness training
- 85% of organizations identify workplace readiness as a critical unmet training need
- 75% of voluntary turnover stems from unmet development needs
- $25K–$45K cost to replace an early-career professional
- 4.2Ă— better performance outcomes with structured development programs
- Conservative annual cost per operationally-unready professional: $15,000–$25,000
Sources: SHRM (2024) Talent Trends Report | DDI (2024) Global Leadership Forecast | Gallup (2024) State of the American Workplace | mthree-Wiley Edge (2024) UK Business Leaders Survey | HRZone (2023) | McKinsey (2023)
Organizational Performance Research
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