Expansion

It’s about creating new skills, perspectives, relationships, awareness, and achievements. It’s about taking on and solving intriguing challenges. It’s about transforming ourselves and our systems. Maybe it’s a need. Definitely it’s a longing, even if sometimes it’s also scary.  Ideally, expansion betters us, sometimes beyond what we thought possible.

Longing for expansion?

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Achievement

It’s completing something by effort, courage, or skill, that sparks happiness, satisfaction, pride, confidence, motivation, or performance. It brings us peace, too. No matter big or small, simple or earth-shattering, alone or with others, achievement feels great and moves us forward.

Pursuing achievement?

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Engagement

It’s the connection and enthusiasm we feel about our jobs and workplaces, and it’s reflected by our vigor, resilience, dedication, and ability to get into flow. (Check out the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale). It’s linked to better performance, higher productivity, greater wellbeing, and lower absenteeism.

Want to ramp up engagement?

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Wellbeing

It’s how we feel. Professionally, it’s how we feel at work and about work, including job satisfaction, emotional experience, meaning, and purpose. (Definition from Oxford experts Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward.) Deep wellbeing is directly linked to recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, and financial performance.

Want to nurture wellbeing?

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Belonging

It’s a fundamental human need. It means we’re welcome as our whole selves, we’re deeply connected to others, we’re fully seen, and we can make our own choices. (Check out UC Berkeley’s Hossein Ayazi’s amazing work.) It’s what employees want most, and it drives happiness and profit. (Indeed.com and Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre have great new research.)

If belonging is your thing

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Managers Matter.
But They’re Not Treated Like It.

Managers are told they’re important. But they’re rarely valued.
Too often, they’re stressed, overwhelmed, and left to fend for themselves—without training, support, or recognition.

They’re expected to do the impossible. Sometimes, even the unethical.
If things go wrong? Managers get blamed.

70% feel overwhelmed. (Gallup, 2023)
66% are disengaged. (Gallup, 2023)
60% feel significant stress from job demands. (American Psychological Association, 2023)
60% feel they’re not adequately supported at work. (Harvard Business Review, 2022)
58% say they’ve never received formal training. (Society for Human Resources Management, 2023)
Turnover has increased 31% since 2020 (LinkedIn “Workforce Trends Report,” 2023)
46% want to quit (Future Forum, 2023)

The World is Changing. Life is Intense. Managers Carry the Weight.

At work there’s AI. Automation. Inequalities. Some jobs attract too many applicants; other jobs lay vacant for months. Many employees and managers fear AI may replace them.   

Homelives are overflowing. Marriage. Divorce. Children. Illness. Caregiving. Loss. Grief. Transitions. Some tragic. Some beautiful. All important. 

In communities, loneliness is an epidemic. Attention spans are gone. The World Health Organization warns that depression is the #1 workplace disability. Fractures abound. 

Collectively we’re roiling through economic and political upheaval. Climate collapse. Epidemics. Disasters. Violence. 

It’s A LOT. And no one works in a bubble. It’s absurd to think people leave everything behind at the office door.  

All that intensity, change, and uncertainty?  

Managers bear its brunt and deliver far beyond KPIs. They offer counsel. Help staff find balance. Nurture culture. Hold space. Sometimes, heal. 

Bright Spots Also Abound. Great Managers Nurture Them.

Wild disruptions invite hopeful opportunities. 

The world’s needs are complex, urgent, and interconnected. We need to work, learn, grow, and achieve together to find lasting solutions. 

Great Managers create powerful teams and synergies. 

Macroeconomics may feel abstract, yet new systems are already here and transforming how we define prosperity.  

They drive life-affirming metrics, leaving GDP in the dust.  

Wellbeing. Equity. Health. Democracy. Degrowth. Circles. Doughnuts. Regeneration. Solidarity. Commons-Based. 

Want to deliver those ambitions? Managers are essential. 

Meet the Moment with Art of Management.

First, we ask the hard, necessary, provocative questions:

How do we transform collective work when re-imagining healthy economies, systems, cultures, and impacts?
What must successful organizations and collectives look like in that future? 
How do managers contribute? 
What training, tools, and supports do managers deserve?

Then we deliver the best ways to:

Build powerful teams, collectives, and synergies. 
Solve problems. Generate solutions.
Deliver life-changing products and services.
Mentor talent. Influence others. Expand reach.
Heal people, relationships, systems.
Transform.

We Can’t Fix Everything.
But We Can Empower Managers.

Art of Management doesn’t solve all the world’s problems. At our core, we deliver management training and support.  

Yet we also help you re-invent management to meet the future. 

Art of Management amplifies 2.5+ decades of experience with thousands of managers so you embody Skills. Confidence. Energy. Power. Community. Achievement. 

Because great managers get great things done. 

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Science-backed. Head-and-heart. For the future we believe in. 

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