Tools and Services
Get results and keep your people
The all-in-one toolkit for managers.
Starter
For individuals
- Unlimited Journal Entries
- One-on-Ones
- Feedback Tracking
- Built-in Coaching Prompts
- Reputation Building Reports
- ProTips Guides and Book Reviews
- Secure Cloud Sync to All Devices
Pro
For small teams
- Everything in Starter
- Calendar Integration
- 10 Seats for Direct Reports
- Meeting Transcript Ingestion
- Performance Review Readiness
- Relationship Management (CRM)
- Inbound Email
- ...and more!
Professional Services
Personalized support from real humans with decades of experience.
Manager Shop Talk
Free coaching and mentoring: we love helping folks out, so chatting is free, forever.
- Recurring Up to Weekly
- Situation Advice
- Skill Development
- Presentation Feedback
- Interview Practice
- Resume Review
Priority: get to know you and give you a chance to know us. A quick 30 minute conversation to get the ball rolling can feel daunting, but don't sweat it, we'll make it easy.
If you're a manager, we can help you:
- Establish your leadership style
- Provide guidance to support your team
- Scale your impact, develop processes that delegate and grow the strength of your team
- Work through tricky situations with employees, peers and bosses.
We can be your thinking partner and sounding board when you need to work through a tough situation or just want to talk through how to approach something.
Hiring Kickstart
Get your hiring process on track.
- Interview training team workshops
- Pipeline design
- Custom Interview Rubric
- Weekly 30-minute coaching sessions
- Personalized action plan
- 3 month follow-up
Priority: understand your current process and growth goals. Every shop is different, and we tailor our approach accordingly.
If you are hiring, we can help you:
- Design a process
- Train your team and interviewers
- Mock interview practice panels
- Coach you through offer construction and delivery
Hiring great people doesn't have to be a gamble, we can help ensure you are being effective, consistent and efficient at bringing solid talent into your organization.
Is Manager Shop Talk really free?
Absolutely free. Management is a tough gig. We've been there, and have the battle scars to prove it. We are committed to helping managers be more effective and enjoy their work. Sometimes it just takes a supportive conversation. Just book some time for an intro using the link above. Or use the contact us form. Can't wait to chat!
Who We Are
Chicago based technology and people leaders with decades of experience in startups and large enterprises.
LinkedInMatt has lead bootstrapped startups to large enterprises, from radio to healthcare to digital whiteboards. Hired, trained and developed cultures, processes and teams.
He believes that leaders are defined as having followers. People follow leaders for various reasons, great leaders aren't "well rounded", they're spiky. Great leaders have knowledge, wisdom, skill, passion or quirk that makes them interesting and worth following along for the ride.
He has a passion for helping managers find and develop their strengths and working through problems together. Especially when situations are tough and you could use a helping hand.
Dan's technical leadership spans nearly two decades, from being a Lead Developer at Arch Linux, to architecting high-availability payment systems at Soda Health and establishing SRE practices at multiple organizations.
He has a strong reputation for building complex and resilient systems while cultivating a healthy culture of collaboration and expertise in the people and teams around him.
His passion is understanding challenging systems and finding pragmatic, common-sense solutions articulated step by step, brick by brick. He considers not just the technology, but also the people and processes. He loves working through problems together.