Beesy Academy

First Ninety Days as a Manager

Move from doing the work to leading it, with the conversations and structures that make the first three months count.

Level
Beginner
Duration
6 weeks
Price
$349
Course code
LM-110
Overview

Most people are promoted into management on a Friday and expected to manage on the Monday. The handover, if there is one, covers the reporting line and the shared drive. Nobody explains how to run a one to one that surfaces a problem, how to set an expectation that a person can actually meet, or what to do the first time you have to tell a former peer that their work is not good enough.

This course covers the ninety days where those habits get set. It is built around six conversations and one operating rhythm. Each week you learn a structure, rehearse it with other people in the cohort, then use it with your own team before the next session. The following week starts with what happened, including the parts that went badly, which is usually where the useful material is.

You need a team to practice on. That can be two people or twenty, direct reports or a project group, but the work has to be real. Students who take this course without anyone to manage tell us they got about a third of the value.

Who this is for
  • Managers in their first year, or about to start
  • Team leads now managing people who were their peers
  • Senior specialists taking on a team for the first time
  • Managers who inherited a team mid year with no handover

Next Cohort

Applications open
  • Q4 2026Monday 5 October 2026
  • Q1 2027Monday 11 January 2027
  • Q2 2027Monday 12 April 2027
  • Q3 2027Monday 5 July 2027

Applications for the Q4 2026 cohort close on Friday 18 September 2026. We reply to every application within two business days.

Ilene Castorena

Manager transitions and team performance

Every session ends with a sentence you have to say to a real person that week, and the next session starts with how it went.

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Beginner, no prior training assumed. One live session of ninety minutes each week, plus about three hours applying it to your own work. Sixteen seats. Full details on how enrollment works.
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Module plan

6 modules across 6 weeks.

Each module has one live session and one piece of practice applied to your own work.

  1. Week 1

    The Shift From Peer to Manager

    What genuinely changes on day one, which of your old strengths now work against you, and how to name the change out loud with your team.

  2. Week 2

    One to Ones That Surface Real Information

    A question set that gets past the polite status update, plus what to do with what you hear and what to write down.

  3. Week 3

    Expectations People Can Actually Hold

    Turning a vague standard into a specific agreement, and the difference between an expectation and a preference you never mentioned.

  4. Week 4

    Delegating Without Disappearing

    Choosing what to hand over, how much context to give with it, and where to stay close without taking the work back.

  5. Week 5

    Feedback That Lands the First Time

    Building the difficult sentence, rehearsing it under pressure, and handling the three responses you are most likely to get.

  6. Week 6

    Your Ninety Day Operating Rhythm

    Designing the weekly and monthly cadence you will still be running in month six, and deciding what you stop doing to make room for it.

Outcomes

What you will be able to do.

By the last session of First Ninety Days as a Manager you will have practised each of these on your own work, not on a case study.

  • Run a one to one that surfaces problems while they are still small
  • Write the expectations for a role in language your team can repeat back to you
  • Hand over a piece of work with the right amount of context and an agreed check in
  • Give corrective feedback without damaging the working relationship
  • Hold a team rhythm that survives a busy quarter instead of collapsing under it
  • Recognize the three situations where you should escalate rather than absorb
Same field

Also in Leadership and Management

Courses for people who have just started leading, or who inherited a team that needs steadying.

Where to next

Ready to take First Ninety Days as a Manager?

Applications for the Q4 2026 cohort close on Friday 18 September 2026 and we reply within two business days. Questions about fit or prerequisites go to hello@beesy-academy.com.