Stop guessing
how work
actually works.
Most professionals aren’t confused because they lack skill.
They’re confused because no one ever shows them how performance actually operates inside organizations.
Real Work Ready™ installs the professional operating foundation most people are expected to figure out on their own.
Delivered as a live cohort. Built as a readiness system.
- How work is taken in and independently owned
- How progress is communicated before it becomes a problem
- How judgment is applied when expectations aren’t clear
- How execution builds trust across teams
So you contribute sooner, earn credibility faster, and stop paying for readiness through avoidable mistakes.
Organizations use Real Work Ready™ to shorten ramp time, stabilize early-career performance, and reduce management drag.
TRUSTED BY PROFESSIONALS
Most professionals spend their first years learning through confusion.
Not because they aren't capable.
Because no one teaches how work actually works.
Most organizations are already paying for readiness... through manager time, correction cycles, and extended ramp periods.
Real Work Ready™ was built to change that.
WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS
This isn't career advice.
This isn't motivation.
This isn't soft skills.
Real Work Ready™ is professional operating training.
It builds the capabilities that actually determine workplace performance.
WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS
Not career advice.
Not motivation.
Not soft skills.
Real Work Ready™ is built on a professional performance model designed to capture how performance is actually evaluated and experienced at work.
It focuses on the operating layer that determines trust, responsibility, and credibility.
This layer is real.
It shapes every career.
And it is almost never made explicit.
Real Work Ready™ exists to make it visible and buildable.
WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS
The Real Work Ready™
Performance Model
What managers actually experience as performance.
Real Work Ready™ is built on a professional performance model developed from years of observing how performance is actually experienced inside organizations.
It translates what is usually informal, unspoken, and inconsistently learned into a structured operating system.
The RWR Performance model reflects how professionals actually deliver value at work, across execution, communication, judgement, ownership, and presence.
Real Work Ready™ turns what is usually learned through trial and error into a repeatable professional operating foundation.
A live, practice-based professional
development experience
Real Work Ready™ is a 6-week live cohort program.
Each week includes:
This is not passive learning.
You don’t watch content.
You practice how to operate. |
The 6-Week Arc
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They leave with an operating foundation.
EXPLORE THE FULL PROGRAM
For early professionals. For organizations.
You’re capable — but no one ever taught you how work actually works.
Real Work Ready™ is built for early-career professionals and career changers who want to stop guessing and start operating with clarity, credibility, and confidence.
This is for people who want to:
- Stop guessing what good performance means
- Show up prepared and useful in meetings
- Handle vague work with structure
- Make progress visible and trusted
- Follow through without reminders
- Earn credibility faster
Limited seats available per cohort
Your people are capable — but unreadiness is still costing you time and performance.
Real Work Ready™ is for organizations that want to shorten ramp time and build professionals who operate effectively sooner.
Real Work Ready™ is used to:
- Shorten time to contribution
- Reduce rework and misfires
- Stabilize early performance
- Return manager time to outcomes
- Install shared operating standards
- Strengthen professional culture
Private cohorts and custom engagements available
WHAT CHANGES AFTER
REAL WORK READY™
After Real Work Ready™, participants don’t just understand work better.
They know how to work better.
They leave with a professional operating foundation they can use immediately — a way of taking in work, executing, communicating, and applying judgment that carries into every role.
Organizations and managers consistently observe:
- Faster alignment on expectations
- Clearer, more structured communication
- More reliable execution and follow-through
- Stronger judgment in ambiguous situations
- Increased ownership and accountability
- Earlier development of professional credibility
Participants report greater confidence because they know what to do, and the ability to grow faster because they understand how performance actually works.
These are not motivational shifts.
They are operating shifts.
WHAT participants
CARRY FORWARD
Participants complete Real Work Ready™ with a formal Real Work Ready™ Professional Operating Framework, a structured system they continue to use to guide how they take in work, evaluate expectations, prepare, communicate, and grow.
This framework becomes a personal professional operating foundation they carry across roles, teams, and organizations.
Participants also gain access to the Real Work Ready™ Alumni Network, a private professional community for continued development, shared language, and ongoing operating discussions.
Real Work Ready™ is not something you complete.
It is something you operate from.
Laura Massetti
Real Work Ready™ was created by Laura Massetti, an executive and commercial leader with 15+ years of experience hiring, developing, and evaluating professionals.
After years inside organizations, one pattern was clear:
Real Work Ready™ turns that invisible learning into a structured professional system.
Ready to stop guessing
and start operating?
Whether you're preparing yourself or developing your team, Real Work Ready™ gives you a clearer, faster path into professional performance.
