Program 04
Step-Up Coaching
Make the case for the bigger role, then actually inhabit it: authority, delegation, visibility, and the conversations you have been avoiding.
Six sessions for the step up: building the promotion case and sponsors beforehand, or building the operating system of the new role in the first hundred days after.
This is for you if
- You have watched a less capable colleague get promoted and would like to stop calling that "politics" and start calling it "visibility, which is learnable"
- You just became a manager and your calendar, your relationships and your definition of a productive day all broke at once
- Your review says "ready when a seat opens" for the second year running
- You lead former peers now, and it is exactly as awkward as you expected
It is not, if
- The honest goal is to leave, not to rise - a clarity conversation first will save you a program aimed at the wrong target
How the 6 sessions run
Sessions 1-2 - The case (or the landing)
Pre-promotion: the gap analysis between your evidence and the next role's job description, and the sponsor map. Post-promotion: the first-100-days plan and the early wins that buy you room.
Sessions 3-4 - The operating system
Delegation that survives contact with reality, the calendar as a statement of priorities, and managing upward - keeping your boss usefully informed without performing busyness.
Sessions 5-6 - The conversations
The ask itself (promotion case, compensation, title), or the hard early conversations of a new role: resetting expectations with former peers, inheriting an underperformer, disagreeing with your own manager well.
FAQ
Asked about the Step-Up Coaching
My company offers internal leadership training. How is this different?
Internal programs teach the company's frameworks to cohorts. This is one-on-one work on your specific promotion case, your specific team, and the conversations you specifically avoid - things you might reasonably prefer not to workshop in front of colleagues.
Can my employer pay for it?
Often, yes. Many clients use professional development budgets; we invoice employers directly and keep session content confidential from them - the standard is written into our coaching agreement. Around a third of Step-Up clients are employer-funded.
Next move
Start with a free conversation.
Thirty minutes, no prep, no obligation. Tell us where you are; we will tell you honestly whether coaching is the right tool - and which coach we would put in your corner.
Free 30 minutes · In the studio or on video · An honest read, either way