PROGRAM OVERVIEW
A six-week professional readiness installationÂ
Real Work Ready™ is delivered through a six-week live cohort experience.
This is where the Real Work Ready™ system is installed through guided operating sessions, real-world scenarios, and applied practice.
This page covers what’s included, how it runs, and how to enroll.
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WHEN YOU ENROLL IN REAL WORK READY™,
YOU RECEIVE:
- Six live facilitated operating sessions
- Weekly applied practice assignments
- Real workplace scenarios, interactive sessions, and guided execution labs
- The Real Work Ready™ Professional Performance Framework Booklets
- Cohort community of fellow professionals
- Your personalized Professional Operating Plan and Workbooks
- Access to the Real Work Ready™ Linkedin Alumni Network
- Optional one-to-one professional operating coaching (add-on)
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This is a working experience.
You will not watch content. You will practice how to operate.
WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY DO
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- Practice taking in and clarifying real work
- Structure execution and follow-through
- Run professional updates and handoffs
- Apply judgment frameworks to ambiguous situations
- Test new operating behaviors in your role
- Build your personal Professional Operating Plan
Everything you work on is grounded in your real professional environment.
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WHAT A TYPICAL WEEK LOOKS LIKE
Each week of Real Work Ready™ is designed to integrate directly into your real professional life.Â
A typical week includes:
Live operating session (75-minutes)
A facilitated working session focused on a specific layer of professional operating capability.
You will work through real workplace scenarios, guided exercises, and applied discussions that show how work is actually handled.
Real-world application
Between sessions, you apply what you’re building directly inside your current role.
This includes how you take in work, structure tasks, communicate updates, run meetings, handle ambiguity, and follow through.
Your job becomes the practice environment.
Operating reflection & refinement
You’ll complete short structured reflections that help you assess what worked, what didn’t, and how to adjust your approach.
This is where operating habits begin to shift.Â
Progressive system build
Each week builds on the last.
By the end of the program, you will have constructed your own Professional Operating Plan — a working reference that guides how you operate going forward.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
How the six-week readiness installation works
Real Work Ready™ is delivered across six live operating modules.
Each module installs a different layer of professional operating capability and builds toward a complete Professional Operating Plan.
Each week includes live operating sessions, real workplace scenarios, guided practice, and direct application to participants’ current roles.
Week 1 — The Real Work Ready™ Performance Model
How professional performance actually works
This week establishes the performance lens used throughout the program.
Participants work with the Real Work Ready™ Performance Model to understand how professionals are actually evaluated, where expectations really live, and how operating behavior shapes credibility.
- Learn how performance is really assessed
- Identify the operating capabilities that matter most
- Map their current operating strengths and gaps
- Build shared professional language
- Reframe their role through a performance lens
This week creates the foundation for every operating shift that follows.
Week 2 — The Professional Execution Cycle
How work is taken in and moved forward
This week installs a repeatable way of handling work.
Participants learn how to clarify work, structure execution, manage priorities, and communicate progress using a shared professional execution cycle.
- Practice clarifying vague or shifting work
- Structure work into executable commitments
- Build usable update and follow-through patterns
- Test execution structures inside their real role
- Reduce rework and misalignment
Week 3 — Professional Communication & Operating Presence
How work is experienced by others
This week focuses on the operating behaviors that shape trust, clarity, and credibility.
Participants work through real communication scenarios involving meetings, updates, handoffs, and day-to-day professional interactions.
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- Pactice running clear professional updates
- Strengthen written and verbal operating communication
- Work through real workplace scenarios
- Refine how their work is received
- Build stronger operating presence
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Week 4 —Professional Judgment & Decision Readiness
How professionals assess and navigate ambiguity
This week installs judgment frameworks for real-world conditions.
Participants learn how to assess situations, surface risk, think through tradeoffs, and escalate appropriately when expectations are incomplete.
- Work through ambiguous scenarios
- Practice decision framing and escalation
- Learn how to assess risk and impact
- Apply judgment models to real situations
- Build decision confidence
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Week 5 — Professional Ownership & Reliability
How trust and responsibility are built
This week focuses on how professionals hold responsibility, manage dependencies, and create reliability across workstreams.
- Examine how ownership shows up in daily work
- Strengthen follow-through and accountability
- Learn how to manage dependencies
- Identify where work commonly drops
- Build habits that create operating trust
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Week 6 — Professional Operating Plan & Integration
Translating the system into daily operation
This week integrates the full Real Work Ready™ system into a personal professional operating foundation.
Participants build their Professional Operating Plan — a structured reference they continue to use to guide how they take in work, execute, communicate, apply judgment, and develop.
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- Consolidate what they’ve built
- Translate it into a personal operating approach
- Identify strengths and development priorities
- Design how they’ll continue applying the system
- Leave with a working professional operating plan
WHAT YOU WILL PRACTICE:Â
- Practice taking in and clarifying real work
- Structure execution and follow-through
- Run professional updates and handoffs
- Apply judgment frameworks to ambiguous situations
- Test new operating behaviors in your role
- Build your personal Professional Operating Plan
We don’t motivate.
We don’t hype.
We build professional capability.
WHAT YOU LEAVEÂ WITH
Participants complete Real Work Ready™ with:
âś“ a formal Professional Operating Framework
âś“ a personalized Professional Operating Plan
âś“ a clearer understanding of how performance actually works
âś“ operating habits they can immediately apply
âś“ access to the alumni network for continued development
You don’t leave with notes.
You leave with a way of working.
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READY TO ENROLL
If you are ready to install your professional operating foundation, you can enroll below.
WHO THIS EXPERIENCE IS FOR
This program is designed for:
- Early-career professionals
- Career changers entering new environments
- Technically strong professionals who feel uncertain navigating work
- High-potential talent who want to accelerate
- Anyone who wants to stop guessing and start operating
This may not be right for you if:
- You want self-paced content
- You want career advice or motivation
- You’re unwilling to participate live
- You’re already operating at a senior level
- You’re looking for shortcuts instead of capability
HOW THE PROGRAM RUNS
- Duration: six weeks
- Format: live, facilitated cohort sessions
- Time commitment: ~3-4 hours per week (live + application)
- Between sessions: applied work inside your real role
- Support: live guidance, scenario practice, structured reflection
Each week installs a different layer of professional operating capability, building toward a complete Professional Operating Plan you continue to use after the program.
