Essentials Series

Strong foundations lead to employees you can count on.

Built for early-career employees at tech companies to strengthen clarity, trust, and engagement.

WHAT IT IS

Three (3) workshops for early-career employees that provide foundational skills, which will help these employees increase their impact, build better relationships and feel more engaged at work.

FORMAT

  • Cohort-based learning (min. 8 people)

  • 90-minute virtual workshops

  • Fast-paced, interactive and fun

  • Leverages adult learning theory and coaching techniques

The Workshops

Early-career employees often start their first roles with real momentum—energy, ambition, curiosity, and the belief that this new chapter will feel exciting and meaningful. Hopefully, that momentum will sustain. But for many people, the day-to-day reality—navigating a manager relationship, questioning whether they’re in the right role, and adjusting to new cultural norms—can lead to a big question: Am I in the right place right now?

Participants will:

  • Identify what’s shaping motivation and sustainability at work

  • Use the Care Portfolio to decide what to adjust now

  • Leave with actions to rebuild momentum

Authentically Care

Clarity is the skill that separates early-career employees who execute from those who lead. Clarity isn’t always something you’re given, especially in high-autonomy cultures. However, it is something you can create.

Participants will:

  • Turn ambiguity into next steps using sharper questions

  • Distinguish operational clarity vs strategic clarity

  • Prioritize and communicate tradeoffs with confidence

Build Trust

Trust is confidence in how someone will show up—and in high-autonomy cultures, trust is one of the biggest drivers of impact, opportunity, and growth. For early-career employees, it’s something you can begin building immediately through small behaviors that compound over time.

Participants will:

  • Understand what trust looks/feels like in based on their past and within their current environment

  • Learn the “Trust Triangle for Early Career” and how to apply it

  • Leave trust-building actions to use this week

Create Clarity

Outcomes

For your business

  • Faster time to productivity

  • Higher engagement and retention

  • Improved self-awareness and collaboration

For your employees

  • Increased confidence

  • Better relationship with manager and team

  • Improved autonomy

  • Greater connection to work

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Early-career employees typically include people who are newer to the workforce or newer to their professional field—often within the first 0–5 years of their career. This can include new grads, employees early in their first full-time roles, and people who are relatively early after a major career pivot. The Essentials Series is built for participants who are still learning how to build credibility, navigate ambiguity, and increase impact in a tech environment.

  • The experience requires a minimum of 8 people. There is no maximum cohort size, though we may have discussions about whether it makes sense to run multiple sessions as cohort size increases.

  • Either. The workshops can be purchased individually or as a package, depending on your goals and timeline.

    Many companies choose the full series to build a consistent foundation across Create Clarity, Build Trust, and Authentically Care, but a single workshop can also be a great starting point.

  • We don’t generally tailor the structure of the workshop. The tailoring happens live during group discussions, activities, reflection and action-planning where the participants use their real-world experiences to apply the content and create actions.

  • The ideal timing is when you and your employees are ready to grow. Most companies prefer the Essential Series in the employee’s first year as it can greatly reduce ramp time and the friction that can come with being a new hire.

  • Absolutely! We market it as virtual so that it can be more accessible to companies, but we are always excited when someone wants to run the workshops in-person as that creates more connection between participants. We can also do hybrid where the facilitator and portion of participants are in-person and another portion of participants are virtual. Additional fees may need to be paid to cover the facilitator’s travel expenses.

Bring the Essentials Series to your Early Career Cohort

Share your cohort size and desired timeline and we’ll send back availability and pricing.