The Management Bootcamp

ELEVEN full courses. Clear, concise, and simply explained.

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.

02

Quantifying and Measuring

You’ll learn which indicators to track and why, proper measurement and forecasting techniques, and how to work smarter not harder.

03

Managing Your Daily Activities

Create a reliable and effective process for managing people and teams, including how to gather information to make more informed decisions and how to adapt your style based on what the individuals on your team need.

04

Managing Your Time

Learn to separate your ‘to dos’ from ‘have to dos’ and manage your time for maximum output.

05

Leading Meetings

Transform what most people dread into your most effective, high-leverage action.

06

Making Decisions

Learn not only how to make a decision, but how to communicate it and follow through with it.

07

Strategic Planning

Use OKRs (objectives and key results) to align your team to close the gap between where you are today and where you need to be in the future.

08

Being a Coach

Identify your employees’ motivations and capabilities so that you can offer them the support they need to continue growing and producing results.

09

Conducting Performance Reviews

Rethink the performance review and turn it into the most effective tool you have as a manager.

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.

02 Income Statement: Below the Line

How much did the company spend running the business? That’s what we’ll discover in this lesson!

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.

04 Balance Sheet: Overview

How to look at a balance sheet, know where the money comes from, and how it is put to use.

05 Balance Sheet: Liabilities

Understand how much the business owes to other people.

06 Balance Sheet: Shareholders’ Equity

Understand how much money investors have put into the business in exchange for ownership and how much money the company has retained from its own profits to grow the business.

07 Balance Sheet: Assets

Discover how all the capital is being put to use to run the business.

08 Cash Flow Statement

Learn about the different sources of cash flow and why it matters where the cash comes from.

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?

02

The Predictable Future

The team begins the process of writing a mission statement. The first step is setting a realistic expectation for what your business will look like in the distant future.

03

The Future You Really Want

Next, consider what you would want the organization to look like in a perfect world.

04

The Four Questions

Answering these four questions will bring clarity and alignment to your team on the core business principles.

05

The Customer’s Viewpoint

Imagine the product from the customer’s perspective to get a better understanding of what value your company provides.

06

Mapping Out The Mission

Nathan leads a group exercise with sticky notes to assemble a cohesive mission statement.

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.

02

The Job Description

Learn about the key components of a job description and understand the importance of gaining clarity in what you are looking for in a new hire including the type of person best suited for your organization.

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.

04

Identifying High-Potential Candidates

Learn how to review and filter resumes to identify candidates with the highest potential. We share insider tips and practical advice when conducting phone screens to determine which candidates to interview.

05

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.

06

The Offer & Closing The Candidate

Understand the components and design of an offer as well as tactics that can help increase the probability a candidate will accept the offer.

07

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.

02

Compensation Philosophy & Culture

Learn the importance of using compensation as a way of reinforcing your company culture and values.

03

Building a Compensation Structure

Build a compensation structure from the ground up using this step-by-step method.

04

Reviewing Compensation Structure

Learn how to evaluate and re-evaluate your compensation structure regularly to ensure that you stay competitive in the market and retain your most valued employees.

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.

02

The Step by Step

Understand that structured thinking is simply applying a method to finding the best solution — learn the steps you can apply to any problem.

03

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.

04

Mission 2: Selecting a Stereo System

Take on a second case study challenge as you help Pareto Motors figure out which stereo system to use in their newest car.

05

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.

06

Conclusion

Learn not only how to make a decision, but how to communicate it and follow through with it.

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?

02

Defining Leadership

Learn the difference between being a leader versus being a manager and the key characteristics that make someone a leader.

03

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.

04

Developing Other Leaders

Learn how to develop people on your team to perform at a higher level.

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.

06

Leading When You Are Not The Boss

Learn how to practice leadership when you are not the boss; Leadership is about gaining commitment from others and this can also be practiced both inside your organization and when working with outside vendors, suppliers and contractors.

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.

08

The Psychology of Being a Leader

Learn about the Imposter Syndrome and how to get past it to maximize your potential as a leader; learn key steps and metrics to help gauge your effectiveness as a leader.

09

Coaching

Learn the importance of coaching when leading and how it is an effective tool to help elevate the performance of others.

10

Becoming a Coach

Learn the steps and techniques to becoming a great coach as part of your leadership development.

11

Mentorship & Coaching

Learn the importance of having a mentor and the difference between mentorship and coaching and how each can work in tandem.

12

Leading Yourself Toward a Balanced Life

Learn how to lead yourself towards achieving a balanced life; learn practical tips for your daily routine to reach a better balance and maximize your leadership effectiveness.

13

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.

02

Types of Deals

There are many types of deals that businesses can make. We explore the most common ones in detail.

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.

04

The Term Sheet

We introduce you to the first official paperwork of a deal by you a real term sheet. This document helps clarify high level business terms so that each party is on the same page before bringing in the lawyers for an official contract.

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.

06

Execution and Operations

After the contract is signed, the deal needs to be operationalized. Learn how to execute on the terms of a deal and avoid pitfalls.

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.

02

Defining the Board of Directors

Learn the main purposes of the board and how to network with other board members.

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.

04

How Is A Board Organized?

Elizabeth breaks down how a board operates most effectively based on its size, the terms of its members, and the various committees within it.

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?

06

Corporate vs Non-Profit Boards

Learn how the responsibilities and expectations for a board member on a corporate board differ from a non-profit board.

07

Joining A Board

As an expert on obtaining board seats, Elizabeth walks through step-by-step how to get on a board.

08

Being a Good Board Member

So you’re sitting on a board, now what? Learn the skills needed to contribute to the board effectively.

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.

02

Restricted Stock Awards (RSAs)

Learn why RSAs are used at more established private companies and understand the basics of equity valuation and how taxes on equity compensation work.

03

Stock Options: ISO and NSO

Understand the difference between stock options and the associated tax implications.

04

Restricted Stock Units & Negotiating for Your Equity

Understand the type of equity the larger public companies use to retain employees.

05

Calculating the Value of Your Stock Options

We walk you through our excel template for estimating your equity value.

06

Funding Your Equity Purchase and Closing Thoughts

Learn about the many nuances of employee compensation and understand the choices you can make along the way to maximize the cash you take home.

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.

01

Introduction

02

Cultivating Culture in a Family Business

03

Scale with Care

04

Managing People and Family Members

05

Assembling the Right Team

06

Parting Thoughts

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