Live virtual manager cohort · December 1, 8 & 15
Practice the manager moments that are hardest to get right live.
Rehearse the conversations, decisions, delegation, feedback, and accountability that management requires. Practice with realistic, instructor-provided scenarios. Leave with language you've tested and tools you can use with your team.
- 3 Tuesdays
- 10am to 12pm ET
- 6 live hours
- 20 managers max
For new and experienced people managers, team leads, and project leads. Every exercise uses fictionalized, standardized scenarios built around common management challenges.
You know what good management is supposed to look like. Doing it on Tuesday is harder.
- You need to give feedback you've been rehearsing in your head for 2 weeks.
- Everyone left the meeting agreeing, but nobody is clear on who decides.
- You delegated it, but you're still doing half the thinking.
- Someone said yes, didn't follow through, and now you need to address it.
- Your team needs the truth about what's changing, including the parts you don't know yet.
That's the work we rehearse.
After 3 sessions, you'll be better prepared to…
- Set expectations people can repeat back to you.
- Clarify who's deciding, doing, consulting, and being informed.
- Say the difficult thing earlier and more clearly.
- Delegate without hovering or disappearing.
- Hold accountability without turning every miss into a crisis.
- Repair what's not working and carry the learning forward.
Practice with realistic management scenarios so you're better prepared when similar situations arise with your team.
How the cohort works
Practice the moments before they happen.
Across all 3 sessions, you'll work through instructor-provided, fictionalized and standardized scenarios: taking over an existing team, introducing a change, clarifying overlapping responsibilities, and addressing a missed commitment.
Through guided exercises, peer feedback, and Rehearsal Mode™ Table Reads, you'll test your language, hear how it lands, and adjust your approach. All course practice uses these scenarios.
The 3 sessions
Build the Room
Using a shared course scenario, get clear on what a change requires and where the people involved are starting from, including you.
Align the Team
Clarify goals, roles, and decision rights. Build working agreements and rehearse a difficult conversation using a shared course scenario.
Lead It Through
Practice delegation, accountability, and repair through course scenarios. Reflect on what you've learned and create a 30-day professional development action plan.
Between sessions, you'll complete guided practice and reflection using the course scenarios, then return ready to compare approaches and refine your skills.
What you get
If you're the manager
Less second-guessing. More language you can use.
You leave with practiced language, reusable tools, a Rehearsal Mode™ Playbook completed through scenario-based exercises, and a 30-day professional development action plan.
If you're sending managers
Give managers a way to practice before you're depending on them to get it right live.
Participants rehearse common management challenges through standardized scenarios and leave with shared practices for expectations, decision-making, feedback, delegation, accountability, and reflection.
Why rehearsal?
Managers are usually asked to learn while performing: have the difficult conversation, make the call, lead the meeting, fix the breakdown.
Rehearsal Mode™ creates a place to try the language, hear how it lands, adjust, and try again before the moment is live.
Art & Soul built the method over 20+ years in professional rehearsal rooms, where people with different roles, perspectives, and pressures still have to make something work together on deadline.
From people who've done this work with us
What participants say
"I have found myself more willing to bravely facilitate difficult moments because of the foundational framework I received… which informs everything from interpersonal conversations to season selection, and everything in between."
"I now have the language and the tools to direct with clarity, honesty, transparency, and compassion… to walk into any room, in any situation with confidence knowing that I have an approach that is clear, flexible enough to tailor to any situation and to any group I'm interacting with."
Your facilitator
Kira Troilo
- Founder of Art & Soul Consulting. 20+ years in professional rehearsal rooms as an actor, choreographer, director, and board member.
- Has led rehearsal-room methods with 1,000+ leaders and creatives across 100+ productions and organizations.
- Runs every session live. You'll rehearse with her, not watch a recording.
Registration
December 2026 cohort
- Tuesdays, December 1, 8 & 15
- 10:00am to 12:00pm ET
- Live (virtual)
- 6 total instructional hours
- Maximum 20 participants
- Includes all 3 sessions, the Rehearsal Mode™ Playbook, scenario-based between-session practice, and a 30-day professional development action plan
$1,500 per participant
Join the December cohort Registering multiple managers? Register your teamNonprofit and arts-organization pricing available. Questions before you register? Email hello@artandsoulconsulting.com.
