The Management Bootcamp
High Output Management
You will learn how to measure key indicators, motivate your employees, align your organization and maximize team output.
01
The Black Box
We launch our deep dive into Andy’s book with one of its core components, illustrating the simplicity of breaking down everything in your business into inputs, processes and outputs.
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Managing Your Daily Activities
05
Leading Meetings
07
Strategic Planning
09
Conducting Performance Reviews
How to Read Financial Statements (with AI Tutor)
Experience the first finance course that comes with an artificial intelligence tutor to quiz you and answer your questions!
Understand the financial health of any business by learning to read and analyze financial statements. In this course we take you line-by-line through Apple’s actual financial statements and explain every concept with simple terms, examples, animations.
01 Income Statement: Above the Line
Understand the revenue and cost of “ingredients” that go into creating and delivering products to determine how much money is left over to pay for business operations.
03 Income Statement: Simple Analysis
By the end of this lesson, you will understand a company’s operations just by looking at the income statement.
05 Balance Sheet: Liabilities
Understand how much the business owes to other people.
07 Balance Sheet: Assets
Discover how all the capital is being put to use to run the business.
09 Financial Ratios
Now you know how to read financial statements! Congrats! But to unlock their power, you have to put the numbers into context.
Mission Statement with Nathan Rosenberg
Learn how to craft a mission statement that gives your business a purpose, a “North Star” you can always point to. Nathan Rosenberg, a founding member of Insigniam and executive coach to Fortune 500 CEOs, leads a mission statement workshop with three members of the Pareto Labs team so that you can learn how to lead this process with your own team.
01
Introduction
Nathan answers the question, why have a mission statement at all?
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The Future You Really Want
Next, consider what you would want the organization to look like in a perfect world.
05
The Customer’s Viewpoint
Imagine the product from the customer’s perspective to get a better understanding of what value your company provides.
07
Final Thoughts
The team drafts their mission statement and Nathan gives his concluding thoughts on the statement’s significance in running a business.
How to Hire
Learn the basics of how to find, assess and hire top tier team members. Elevate your game at work by writing great job descriptions, decoding resumes and conducting insightful interviews.
01
Intro to Hiring
We introduce you to the key phases of the hiring process and offer a preview of what you will learn in this course.
03
Sourcing Talent
Learn about the different methods and places to recruit talent and how to develop your own system to help maintain a quality source of candidates throughout your career.
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The Interview
Understand how to best prepare for and conduct a live interview with a candidate. We walk you through some of our favorite interview questions that help inform whether a candidate not only has the right experience and skills, but also fits with your culture.
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Onboarding & Conclusion
We show you how to design an orientation to help indoctrinate new employees and integrate them seamlessly into your organization.
Compensating Your Employees
Whether you run a business or manage a team, you will eventually need to decide how much to pay the people you hire. In this course you will learn how to structure your process for setting employee compensation from analyzing the market to establishing pay ranges and choosing the best mix of cash, equity and perks.
01
The Four Pieces
Compensation includes much more than salary. Understand the four components of employee compensation that can be mixed and matched to attract top talents.
03
Building a Compensation Structure
Build a compensation structure from the ground up using this step-by-step method.
Structured Thinking
Learn the secret to solving ANY business problem by applying the same structured approach that the big management consulting firms use.
01
What is Structured Thinking?
Learn the basics of structured thinking, why it is important to learn and what it can do for you and your career.
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Mission 1: Selecting an Airbag Supplier
Apply the structured thinking process to a case study as you help Pareto Motors find better suppliers for its car components.
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Mission 3: Disaggregating a Complex Problem
Practice solving a complex problem through another case study by breaking the problem down into components and solving each part individually.
Leadership with Nathan Rosenberg
Learn leadership from one of the world’s most prolific leadership experts, inventor of executive coaching, and founding partner of management consulting firm, Insigniam. This course offers a deep dive into core leadership principles, key characteristics of being a leader, and practical methods for integrating leadership into your day to day activities.
01
Introduction
What is it to actually be an effective leader?
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Becoming a Leader
Learn the best way to practice leadership and how you don’t have to be an extrovert to become a great leader; Nathan highlights the types of leaders and shares how leadership can be learned and within reach of anyone willing to commit.
05
Deciding Who You Are
Learn the importance of integrity and commitment to becoming a great leader; being self aware and knowing what inspires, moves and challenges you will teach you how to best motivate others and lead by example.
07
Leadership as an Entrepreneur
Discover the similarities and differences between leading an entrepreneurial start-up and being a leader within a large organization. Learn how to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset that can help fuel your success as a leader in any position.
09
Coaching
Learn the importance of coaching when leading and how it is an effective tool to help elevate the performance of others.
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Mentorship & Coaching
Learn the importance of having a mentor and the difference between mentorship and coaching and how each can work in tandem.
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Career Management
Learn how to think about your future growth as a leader and practical tips to and actions you can take today help you reach your career goals.
How to Make a Deal
There is a generally accepted process for making deals in the business world. In this course we discuss the most common types of deals and take you step by step through the process of executing a video game licensing partnership.
01
Introduction
We set the stage for what you will be learning, give you an overview of the stages of a typical deal process and introduce the scenario we will be playing out throughout the course.
03
Negotiating 101
Learn about the process of negotiating and etiquette. We dispel some of the myths about negotiating and discuss how it works in the real world.
05
The Contract
We walk you through the main components of a legal business contract and discuss how to work with lawyers to finalize the legal terms.
07
When Deals Go Wrong
In the real world, deals can go wrong or change along the way. We will explore what can go wrong and how to deal with these things when they happen.
Demystifying the Board of Directors with Elizabeth Funk
Ever wonder what the board of directors does? Elizabeth Funk has served on over 20 boards and chaired 8 of them. In this course, she opens up about her experience in the boardroom, teaching you everything there is to know, and even giving you some tips on how to score a seat.
01
Overview
Elizabeth explains the many paths that lead to a board seat as well as the typical duties and responsibilities of a board member.
03
Who Serves On Boards?
Boards aren’t just for the rich and famous. Elizabeth reviews the nominating process for board members and the qualities they look for.
05
Advice For Founders
If you’re starting a company, when should you set up a board, and how do you make sure it’s set up for success?
07
Joining A Board
As an expert on obtaining board seats, Elizabeth walks through step-by-step how to get on a board.
09
Managing A Board
Learn how to be in charge of other board members, and even the CEO.
Know Your Equity
Whether you are at a startup or a large company, employee equity is an important part of your compensation. In this course we demystify the terms, types of equity, tax implications, and more to help you understand the value of your equity compensation.
01
Know Your Equity!
An introduction to the basic terms and concepts of employee equity.
03
Stock Options: ISO and NSO
Understand the difference between stock options and the associated tax implications.
05
Calculating the Value of Your Stock Options
We walk you through our excel template for estimating your equity value.
Scaling a Family Business with Teddy Fong
Hear stories, advice and wisdom from the CEO of Million Dollar Baby Co., a family owned baby furniture company that has grown over 10x in less than 10 years. Learn how to manage family members, build a winning culture, hire the right people and more.
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Introduction
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Scale with Care
05
Assembling the Right Team
What Our Students Are Saying
“I absolutely love this training and I am learning so much! I would have paid 10X the price.”
– RICK L, FOUNDER
“I’ve been in business for years and wish I had this resource sooner.”
– BURKE M, CEO
“As an adult running a business, I cannot afford the time for night classes or to go back to college. This is the perfect solution to sharpen my skills on my own time. “
– ROB G, BUSINESS OWNER
“They break down what can seem like intimidating subject matter into approachable and relatable lessons.”
– JENNIFER C, INVESTMENT MANAGER
“Amazing! They explain everything so simply that is was actually enjoyable to listen to and learn from!”
– ADAM W, CRO
“Love this course! The content is useful, easy to understand and entertaining. Wish I could have gone through my MBA this way.”
– CALEB C, BUSINESS OWNER
What You Get
- Entertainment. Fun courses that feel like watching a TV show
- Q&A chat. Our Ai teaching assistant will quiz you and answer your specific questions
- Anytime, Anywhere. Watch on your own time and as many times as you want.
- Retain the info. Quizzes and cheat sheets to reinforce what you learn