Live virtual manager cohort · December 1, 8 & 15
Practice the manager moments that are hardest to get right live.
Bring 1 real piece of work. Rehearse the conversations, decisions, delegation, feedback, and accountability it requires. Leave with language you've tested and a plan you can use right away.
- 3 Tuesdays
- 10am to 12pm ET
- 6 live hours
- 20 managers max
For new and experienced people managers, team leads, and project leads. No role-play for its own sake. You'll work on something you're leading right now.
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.
You won't practice on hypothetical leadership problems. You'll apply this to real work you're leading now.
How the cohort works
Bring 1 real thing. Leave having moved it forward.
A project. A transition. A launch. A new team. A difficult working dynamic. A change you're responsible for landing.
You'll use the same piece of work across all 3 sessions, test what you're learning between meetings, and come back with evidence from the real world.
"I'm taking over a team that already existed."
"We're changing how the department works."
"Two people think they own the same decision."
"I've been avoiding a conversation with someone on my team."
The 3 sessions
Build the Room
Get clear on what's happening, what the work requires, and where the people involved are starting from, including you.
Align the Team
Clarify goals, roles, and decision rights. Build the agreements the work needs. Rehearse the first honest conversation before you have it.
Lead It Through
Practice delegation, accountability, and repair. Look back honestly, decide what changes, and build your next 30 days.
Between sessions, you'll try the work with your actual team and bring what happened back into the room.
What you get
If you're the manager
Less second-guessing. More language you can use.
You leave with a conversation you've already practiced, clearer decisions about the work you're leading, reusable tools, and a completed Rehearsal Mode™ Playbook instead of another folder of workshop slides.
If you're sending managers
Give managers a way to practice before you're depending on them to get it right live.
Participants work on current organizational priorities, apply the learning between sessions, 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, between-session practice, and your next-30-days 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.
