First Team

Nobody trains you for the first hire.

You go from doing the work to depending on somebody else to do it — usually while still doing most of it yourself. The skills that got you here stop being the ones that matter, and there is no HR department to ask.

The ways it goes wrong are predictable. You hire for the tasks you hate rather than the role you need. You keep the work because explaining it takes longer than doing it. You avoid the first hard conversation until it has become a last one.

That is what these sessions are for. Two hours, live, and you leave holding the thing you came for.

Your First Hires

Going from doing the work yourself to leading the people who do it

What you work on

Write the role you actually need, rather than a list of the tasks you least want to do.
Run the first ninety days so a new person becomes useful without you hovering.
Hand over work permanently instead of lending it out and taking it back.
Have the first hard conversation early, while it is still small and cheap.

What you leave with

A role definition you can post
A first-ninety-days plan and a weekly one-to-one structure
A 30-minute group office-hours call two weeks later, to bring what actually happened

Pick a date

October 22, 2026
6:00–8:00 PM ET · Live Virtual
$149Register
December 3, 2026
6:00–8:00 PM ET · Live Virtual
$149Register

Booking before 31 December puts it in this tax year, which for most owners makes it a deductible business expense. Worth a word with whoever does your books — we are not the people to advise you on that.

Hiring more than a handful of people, or already have a team? The sessions are the better fit.

Who this is for

If you have never managed anyone and are about to, or you hired someone recently and it is not going how you pictured, you are the person this was written for.

Owners hiring their first employees
Creators building a small team
Founders who became someone's boss overnight
Anyone managing people for the first time

What this will not do is make you money. We measure and change workforce conditions — burnout, retention, how managers handle pressure — and that is what our results are about. Hiring well and managing well is the part we can teach you and stand behind.

Nobody trains you for the first hire.

That is what these sessions are for. Two hours, live, and you leave holding the thing you came for.

Your First Hires

Going from doing the work yourself to leading the people who do it

What you work on

Write the role you actually need, rather than a list of the tasks you least want to do.

Run the first ninety days so a new person becomes useful without you hovering.

Hand over work permanently instead of lending it out and taking it back.

Have the first hard conversation early, while it is still small and cheap.

What you leave with

A role definition you can post

A first-ninety-days plan and a weekly one-to-one structure

A 30-minute group office-hours call two weeks later, to bring what actually happened

Who this is for

If you have never managed anyone and are about to, or you hired someone recently and it is not going how you pictured, you are the person this was written for.

Owners hiring their first employees

Creators building a small team

Founders who became someone's boss overnight

Anyone managing people for the first time