Self-Management
Bootcamp

This Bootcamp is an intensive, experiential training in the mindset and skills that make self-management work. In self-managing organizations, everyone becomes a leader. But it’s a totally different kind of leadership, and this course is designed to help you develop it.

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Upgrade your mindset. Master the skills. Thrive in self-management.


A key part of reinventing our organizations is upgrading the structures and processes. But there is often a missing piece: our mindset and behavior. 

Without upgrading how we think and who we are, self-managing teams won’t thrive. They won’t work the way we want them to.

In researching hundreds of self-managing organizations, we have come to know their struggles. 

The ones we hear about most?

01.
People struggle to adapt
With most being new to self-management, it’s not easy to unleash the right mindset and behavior, leading to untapped potential and suboptimal leadership.
02.
Leadership vacuum
Without formal leaders, teams sometimes lack direction and struggle to make strategic decisions, potentially leading to drift or missed opportunities.
03.
Letting go of old habits
People often fall back on ingrained command-and-control behaviors, undermining the self-managing structure and creating friction within teams.

What is the Self-Management Bootcamp?

Together with Tuff Leadership Training, the go-to trainers with twenty years’ experience of self-management skills and behaviors, we're launching a program specifically aimed at supporting people to thrive in self-managed organizations.

It's called: the Self-Management Bootcamp.

This Bootcamp is an intensive, experiential training in the mindset and skills that make self-managing teams work.

If you are just starting your self-management journey, or you are noticing some challenges like people not stepping in, or people stuck in old ‘top-down’ habits, this bootcamp is designed to help you develop the skills to shift the things that are not working and create a thriving self-managed culture.

Who is the Self-Management Bootcamp for?

This Bootcamp is for anyone in a self-managing team or organization. Yes, that includes everyone—founders, leaders, and team members alike.

It's perfect for:

  • Leaders who want to lead in a different way - without relying on command and control.
  • Employees who want to step up and take ownership in a self-managing environment.
  • Team members looking to develop the skills to excel in flat or bossless organizations.
  • Managers transitioning from traditional hierarchies to more progressive structures.

What to expect?

A challenging, practical training designed to apply an adult-to-adult mindset and way of being to unleash the full potential of your teams.

This is an experiential and intensive program where active participation is key. Expect a mix of solo, pair, and group exercises—some with role play, others using real cases. The training will be held on Zoom, utilizing breakout rooms.

After the bootcamp you will…

  • Have a new definition of what leadership means in a self-managing team and how everyone becomes a leader
  • Be more coaching, with the ability to unleash the potential of others instead of them being dependent on your advice and solutions
  • Feel more able to give feedback to peers, feedback that leads to real development shifts
  • Know how to coach groups when they are ‘stuck’ and foster a climate of trust and openness that increases collaboration
  • Have new awareness of your strengths and pitfalls, thanks to plenty of practice, feedback and coaching throughout the course

What NOT to expect?

Theoretical training, ‘edutainment’, or webinars where you sit back and just listen!

Time commitment

The program consists of 6 modules spread over 6 weeks. Each module is an afternoon and a subsequent morning, including breaks (with the exception of the final module which is just one half-day).

Note: We strongly recommend attending all sessions for the full experience. The magic happens in the live interactions, and each module builds on the previous ones. Missing sessions will significantly impact your learning and the value you get from the Bootcamp. If you can't commit to the majority of dates, we suggest waiting for a future cohort that better fits your schedule.

What's the price?

The Bootcamp is €3,450. You can enroll here.

Content overview

Week 1: Unleashing leadership in everyone

We will explore a new leadership paradigm and why we need to ‘upgrade’ our inner Operating System (our mindset, our way of being, our culture) if we want our self-management ‘apps’ (structures and processes) to work.

Our key practice this week is coaching and we will discover how easy it is to end up in a ‘parent-child’ dynamic where we automatically give advice and solutions, instead of empowering people to find their own.

Self-management pitfalls addressed:

  • Introducing new structures/processes, but not realizing how ingrained old (parent-child) habits and ways of being are

  • Giving teams/individuals authority but still defaulting to being responsible, giving advice, problem-solving etc. so that individuals/teams remain dependent on us!

  • Thinking that I/we need to solve issues we see, design solutions etc. instead of coaching others and placing it with them

  • ‘The pendulum of doom’ – moving away from top-down, we swing too far and end up in ‘abdicated leadership’, allergic to anything resembling hierarchy, authority, structure etc. which leads to dysfunctions like accountability vacuums and a ‘prison of politeness’

Week 2: Upgrading psychological safety (trust & openness)

In week 2, we dive into upgrading the levels of trust and openness in our relationships in order to create thriving self-managing teams. We explore what psychological safety is and isn’t, and how to listen so that others feel truly seen.

Our key practice is a relationship conversation – how you can bring up ‘pebbles’ (tensions) with someone in order to strengthen a relationship, or restore the trust when the relationship has really broken down.

Self-management pitfalls addressed:

  • The buddy trap or the ‘prison of politeness’ – the shadow side of a culture of care means we don’t dare or we don’t know how to have difficult conversations

  • If we can no longer pass the buck to a manager or HR, how do we deal with our conflicts?

  • Assuming that new structures/processes will magically create a harmonious, collaborative climate – but there is no getting around needing to talk about difficult things sometimes!

  • Taking relationships for granted and being a ‘consumer’ instead of ‘producer’ of our relationships – assuming the good ones will always be good, and that the bad ones are unfixable

Week 3: Peer-based accountability and development

This week we look at how to create a culture of feedback and development, as well as how to support people to take ownership when we see that their commitment or motivation levels are low.

Our key practices are an alternative feedback conversation and a non-negotiable conversation – how to support people when they are struggling with a decision or process that is non-negotiable (policies, team agreements etc.).

Self-management pitfalls addressed:

  • Feedback culture is all talk – we want to have a feedback culture but there are so many obstacles (concerns about hurting others, how to make it ‘land’, how to do it when we are equals etc.)

  • People aren’t developing – if you take away managers and performance management systems, how do people develop and progress in their roles?

  • Lack of accountability culture – we don’t know how to hold each other accountable if not in a top-down way

  • Gossip culture – because we don’t know how to give feedback or hold each other accountable, we have backchannel conversations, resentment brews and people often end up leaving or being laid off when there is no other solution

Week 4: Shared responsibility and distributed decision-making

In week 4, we start to apply what we’ve been learning so far to groups. How can we facilitate team meetings, discussions and decisions so that the team is responsible, instead of me driving or being responsible all the time?

Our key practice this week is facilitating decisions and starting to pay attention to what’s ‘under the surface’ in a group so we can support them to get ‘unstuck’.

Self-management pitfalls addressed:

  • Teams/groups are dependent on one or a few individuals for leadership instead of leadership being truly distributed

  • Getting stuck in arguing about ‘surface issues’ and being totally blind to what is ‘under the surface’ and how it is obstructing us from moving forward

  • Thinking that practicing new decision-making methods will automatically make us more collaborative and efficient

  • ‘Death by consensus’ – finding decision-making tedious and slow

  • Lack of commitment and ownership of decisions

Week 5: Transforming teams

This week we deepen our understanding of the ‘working climate’ in a team and how to transform conflicts when they arise. When we can become skilled at this, magic happens!

Our key practice is facilitating groups ‘under the surface’ – how to shift a climate that’s hindering a group, and how to clean up ‘moose heads’ (infected issues).

Self-management pitfalls addressed:

  • Automatic responses to conflicts – trying to smooth them over, avoid them, fix them etc. instead of coaching a group to be responsible for transforming them

  • Trying to collaborate, discuss or decide on ‘surface issues’ when there is an unproductive climate going on or tensions are festering ‘under the surface’ that we don’t talk about

  • Unresolved (or ignored) tensions and conflicts costing us energy, efficiency and psychological safety

Week 6: Pulling it all together

In our final week, we explore our personal mindsets that are in the way for us to be leaderful in a self-managing context. This is often the most powerful piece. We also close the group with some appreciative feedback and create a plan for ourselves to continue our personal development journey.

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Questions + Answers

01.
Is there a community element to this?

Yes. All members of the Bootcamp will have complementary access to our membership platform for a full year (worth €948). This gives you access to a collection of courses, monthly live events, and a global community of self-management experts and enthusiasts.

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Are there any other timezones available?

For the first Bootcamps, we focus on European-friendly timings. We plan to offer additional timezone options in the future based on demand. If you're interested in a different timezone, let us know, and we'll keep you updated on new offerings.

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Want to get your company to pay for this?

Need a hand convincing your colleagues? We've crafted a ready-to-use expense justification for you. Grab it here and make sure you're ready by November 4th. Your future self (and your team) will thank you.

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What if I can't attend all sessions?

We strongly recommend attending all sessions for the full experience. The magic happens in the live interactions, and each module builds on the previous ones. Missing sessions will significantly impact your learning and the value you get from the Bootcamp. If you can't commit to the majority of dates, we suggest waiting for a future cohort that better fits your schedule.

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Is this only for people already working in self-managed organizations?

No. While this Bootcamp is created in response to demand by self-managing organizations, this Bootcamp is of value to anyone. It's about developing the mindset and skills that make self-management work: taking ownership, having adult-to-adult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, and making decisions collaboratively. These are universal skills that will make you more effective in any work environment, whether you're in a traditional hierarchy or a cutting-edge self-managed team. If you want to level up your leadership and collaboration skills, this Bootcamp is for you.

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What makes this different from other leadership training?

This isn't your typical leadership course. We focus specifically on the skills needed in self-managed environments. It's hands-on, practical, and tailored to the unique challenges of working without traditional hierarchy. You won't find any outdated command-and-control BS here.

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Who is Tuff Leadership Training and why is this course run by them?

Tuff has been perfecting its training for people exploring self-management for the last twenty years, and their founder, Karin Tenelius, was one of the early pioneers of bossless organizations in Sweden in the nineties (you can read more about her journey in this book).

They have been on our radar for nearly a decade and Tuff trainer Lisa Gill has written many guest blogs for us. But last year, members of the Corporate Rebels team started taking the training for ourselves and we have seen huge shifts. Tuff knows how to facilitate transformational training that addresses the challenges we face in self-managing teams. For us, this partnership was a no-brainer.

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Dates

The next cohorts take place in January/February 2025.

Dates and times for the sessions for the next cohort:

Tuesday January 21, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Wednesday January 22, 2025 09:00-12:00 CET
Tuesday January 28, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Wednesday January 29, 2025 09:00-12:00 CET
Tuesday February 04, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Wednesday February 05, 2025 09:00-12:00 CET
Tuesday February 11, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Wednesday February 12, 2025 09:00-12:00 CET
Tuesday February 18, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Wednesday February 19, 2025 09:00-12:00 CET
Tuesday February 25, 2025 13:00-17:00 CET
Upgrade your mindset.
Master the skills.
Thrive in self-management.
Bootcamp
€ 3,450
Enroll now
Bootcamp includes:
6-week intensive program
Delivered by certified Tuff trainers
Practical, hands-on learning
Real-world scenarios and role-playing exercises
Tools to immediately apply in your organization
1-year complementary membership
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