The Challenge: The "Fire-Fighting" Trap In today’s high-pressure corporate environment, managers are often trapped in a cycle of reactive problem-solving. They spend valuable hours "putting out fires" and addressing the same recurring issues, leaving little time for strategic thinking. Traditional coaching is effective but time-prohibitive; most leaders simply do not have 60 minutes to dedicate to every employee conversation.

The Solution: Precision Leadership The 5-Minute Manager is an intensive executive training program that upgrades your leadership operating system. It shifts leaders from a "Managerial" stance (directing and controlling) to a "Facilitator" stance (empowering and unleashing potential).

This course equips leaders with a precision communication framework to identify the root cause of performance blocks and resolve them in focused, 5-to-10-minute conversations.

Organizational Impact & ROI

  • Recover Lost Time: Drastically reduce meeting times by cutting through "symptom talk" and addressing the core issue immediately.

  • Scalable Development: Equip managers to coach their teams "in the flow of work," rather than in scheduled, formal sessions.

  • Cognitive Root Cause Analysis: Teach leaders to distinguish between behavioral symptoms and the thinking structures (frames) driving them.

  • Enhanced Accountability: Shift the burden of problem-solving back to the employee, fostering ownership and resilience.

Curriculum Overview

  • Module 1: The Well-Formed Problem. Learn to strip away emotional noise and vague complaints to define the problem so clearly that the solution becomes self-evident.

  • Module 2: The 14 Conversation Protocols. Master specific frameworks for Clarity, Decision-Making, Planning, and Responsibility, preventing circular discussions.

  • Module 3: The Meaning-Performance Axis. Understand the psychology of performance to diagnose whether an employee is blocked by a lack of skill or a distortion in meaning.

  • Module 4: "Torpedo" Precision Questioning. Advanced linguistic tools to bypass defensive narratives and create instant cognitive breakthroughs.

The Bottom Line We don't train therapists; we train decisive, humane, and efficient leaders. Give your management team the tools to unlock the intellectual capital of your organization—one 5-minute conversation at a time.

Skill Level: Intermediate
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