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The Manager’s Field Guide

A playbook built on your people and your language, delivered ready for managers to use immediately.

60%

of new managers receive zero formal training before leading a team.

Center for Creative Leadership, via Wharton

4.2 yrs

is the average time before a new manager gets any formal leadership training.

Pryor Learning

57%

of employees have left a job specifically because of their manager.

DDI, Frontline Leader Project

Most managers are handed a team long before anyone hands them a playbook. The Manager’s Field Guide closes that gap fast, turning your organization’s real scenarios into a concrete resource every manager can use starting the week it’s delivered.

How It Runs

Step 1 · Week 1

Surface

Working sessions pull out real scenarios, failure points, and the organization’s own language.

Step 2 · Week 2

Deliver

A revised, finished guide is handed over, ready to distribute to every manager on the team.

Why Companies Commission It

Fast, concrete help. No multi-week commitment needed to get something usable in hand.
Built on your organization. Scenarios, language, and escalation paths are all yours.
An asset you own outright. Usable with every manager, not just the ones in the room.

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Mary Ellen Ball, MPP, ICF PCC — Founder, Open Delta Group · Former Nonprofit CEO · Diagnostic-First.

Mary Ellen built The Manager’s Field Guide on the diagnostic-first approach she brings to every engagement. She led enterprise-wide leadership development at BDO USA before founding Open Delta Group, and has run two organizations herself as CEO.

“You run the business. I’ll grow the people behind it.”

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