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An AI leadership personal trainer for every manager

Your managers start from different places. Arti, Rising Team’s AI leadership coach, meets each one where they are, builds a growth plan around one focus at a time, and books the coaching, practice and team sessions into their week. You see the lift within a quarter.

The problem

Promoted on Friday, managing on Monday

Most people become managers because they were great at a different job. Then the skills that got them promoted stop being the job, and the feedback, the conflict and the one-on-ones start arriving every week.

Training comes a few times a year. In between, managers are left to ask for help, and most never do. That gap is where teams are won and lost.

A manager's year: a hard moment every week, drawn as 52 marks, with training on just two of those weeks. In between, the manager is on their own. TRAINING TRAINING ON THEIR OWN a hard conversation, a one-on-one, a conflict, every week JAN DEC

75% of organizations have significantly updated their leadership development programs. The results haven’t caught up yet.

More than half are spending more on leader development, too. Gartner found that traditional formats like seminars and lectures can work against development, and points instead to repeated connection with peers, through networking and team building.

Gartner, October 2024
How it works

A quarter with an AI leadership personal trainer

Follow one new manager, leading five former peers, through her first quarter. Her development isn’t added on top of the job: Arti builds it into the weeks she already has, around her own focus. Now picture every manager in your organization getting the same.

  1. Week 1 · The intake

    Arti gets to know her

    Her level, her team of five former peers, what she does well, what’s hard, her goals for the quarter and your leadership principles. An AI leadership personal trainer starts from where you are.

    The lift Development that starts from her, not from a cohort

  2. Week 2 · Working session

    One focus, and the work gets done

    Like picking arm day or leg day, she chooses one focus: giving clearer, more direct feedback. In a working session Arti helps her draft the feedback for this week’s one-on-ones.

    The lift A real deliverable, done faster

  3. Week 3 · Coaching

    The questions a great coach would ask

    Why is feedback to one former peer so much harder than the rest? Arti asks, listens and helps her find her own answer, the way an executive coach would.

    The lift Insight she owns, at the moment she needs it

  4. Week 4 · Role play

    Practice the conversation she’s been avoiding

    Voice to voice, Arti plays her former peer, more defensive or more open on request, then scores her on her objective, clarity and empathy.

    The lift She practices on Arti, not on her team

  5. Week 6 · Team session

    The team learns how each other works

    She runs the Working Styles Kit, where everyone writes a user manual for how they work best. Arti remembers it, so its coaching knows her team too.

    The lift A team that knows each other, and a coach that knows the team

  6. Week 12 · The next focus

    On to the next goal

    With feedback becoming a habit, Arti helps her pick what’s next. HR sees how managers are progressing across the organization, as anonymized trends.

    The lift Progress you can see, not courses completed

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Illustrative

Customers see a 20%+ lift in manager effectiveness within a quarter, against a control group.

For talent and L&D leaders

Scale your programs to every manager, without scaling your team

Leadership development has always struggled with three things: making it personal, reaching everyone and making it last. Rising Team carries your programs into every manager’s week, built on the frameworks you already teach.

  1. Personal

    The usual way Cohort training teaches everyone the same thing at the same time.

    With Rising Team A growth plan for each person, from their intake, their goals and your competencies.

  2. Every manager

    The usual way One-to-one coaching works, but it’s expensive and hard to scale.

    With Rising Team Coaching, working sessions and role play on demand, for every manager and individual contributor.

  3. Lasting

    The usual way Without reinforcement, what people learn in a program fades.

    With Rising Team Sessions booked into every week, and team sessions where managers practice with their own team.

Built on what you already run

  • Your frameworks Built on your leadership frameworks, competencies, values and guardrails.
  • Learning cohorts Managers across locations or functions practice and learn together.
  • Usage and satisfaction Reporting across team sessions and Arti, in numbers and in people’s own words.
  • Business impact Manager effectiveness, retention and engagement, measured against a control group.
Bank of Hawai‘i Bank of Hawai‘i scaled leadership development across its branch and corporate teams without adding more burden to managers or L&D. Read the story
Customer stories

Managers who keep coming back

“There’s a huge gap in the middle, where it’s essentially left to the manager to seek help.”

Abhishek DhasmanaVP of Product and GM, India Tech Center, Fanatics

Fanatics’ India Tech Center grew from 200 to 340 people in 16 months, hiring many new leaders from many different companies. Two months into its Rising Team rollout:

  • 66%of managers have had more than five exchanges with Arti
  • 95%of managers are return users
Watch the conversation
Abhishek Dhasmana at Fanatics' India Tech Center The Human Native Leader · 31 min
Bank of Hawaii

“Rising Team helps us become even better. And with the ease of deploying it, Rising Team is one of the best solutions I’ve ever seen.”

Therese DickersonSVP Dir. of Organizational Effectiveness, Bank of Hawaii

Bank of Hawai‘i built better managers across its branch and corporate teams with sessions they lead themselves, built around its leadership principles, without growing the L&D team.

  • 10–12% increase in manager effectiveness
  • 18% increase in retention for branch employees
  • 1,800+ employees engaged with Rising Team
Read the Bank of Hawaii story

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FAQ

Questions people leaders ask

How does this fit with our leadership development programs?

It extends them into every week. Programs happen a few times a year; the hard moments happen every week. Rising Team is built on your own values, leadership frameworks and ways of giving feedback, so what managers learn in your programs is what Arti coaches them on in between.

How is Arti different from an executive coach?

An executive coach is excellent at one thing: asking the questions that draw out someone’s own answers. Arti does that too, in its coaching sessions, and adds three more modes: working sessions that help managers get real work done, role plays to practice hard conversations, and team sessions they run with their own team. And every manager gets one, not just senior leaders.

How much of a manager’s time does it take?

Managers choose. The lowest option is 10 minutes a week, and 60% of people choose 30 minutes or more. Arti books the sessions into their calendar at times they pick, and adjusts when something more pressing comes up.

How do we measure the impact?

On the numbers that matter to the business: manager effectiveness, retention, productivity and engagement, measured with and without Rising Team. Customers see a lift of 20% or more in manager effectiveness scores within a single quarter, against a control group.

Is it only for managers?

No. Arti coaches individual contributors too, so people build leadership skills before they step into the role, and new managers start with a head start rather than from zero.

Are managers’ conversations with Arti private?

Yes. The organization sees only anonymized trends, aggregated across people. Arti never passes what one person tells it into anyone else’s conversations: if a manager tells Arti they’re struggling, that never reaches their own manager.

Is our data used to train AI models?

Never. Customer data is never used to fine-tune, train or improve any AI models at Rising Team or by its third-party partners, and each AI service it works with contractually commits not to train on the data it sends them.

Every manager deserves an AI leadership personal trainer.

See how Rising Team gives every manager a growth plan, coaching and practice, built on your leadership principles.