Your first 90 days
Learn before changing, align expectations and establish credible early wins.
FOR FIRST-TIME MANAGERS AND THE TEAMS THAT DEVELOP THEM
Lead with greater clarity from your first 90 days onward.
Use 50 practical Leadership Moves to earn trust, lead people and deliver results—without pretending you already have every answer.
- Handle the transition from individual contributor to manager.
- Set expectations, delegate outcomes and give useful feedback.
- Prepare for difficult conversations using practical language.
- Build a team that works while managing your own leadership habits.
Launch price: PHP 499 until 30 September 2026
Regular price: PHP 599 beginning 1 October 2026
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96 PAGES | 50 PRACTICAL MOVES | 6 LEADERSHIP AREAS | ACTION WITHIN 24 HOURS
A promotion changes the basis of success.
Before promotion, success may have depended on the quality and speed of your own work. After promotion, results increasingly depend on what other people understand, decide and deliver. Your real work now includes setting expectations, delegating outcomes, giving feedback, handling difficult conversations and building trust.
Many capable employees receive the title but not a practical guide for the people situations that follow. Without a deliberate shift, a strong specialist can remain trapped in the old role—doing too much personally, answering every question and becoming the team's bottleneck.
You do not need to know everything on day one. You need a reliable way to choose your next leadership move.
A field guide for the moment the leadership problem is already in front of you.
The First-Time Manager's Leadership Playbook is designed for quick use before a real conversation, meeting or decision. Read it from beginning to end, or open the section that matches the situation you need to handle today.
What the playbook helps you do
Leading people
Build trust, run useful one-on-ones, delegate outcomes and support motivation.
Fair performance
Set clear standards, observe evidence, give feedback and respond consistently.
Difficult conversations
Prepare carefully, speak candidly and protect dignity without avoiding accountability.
Team effectiveness
Improve meetings, decisions, coordination, psychological safety and follow-through.
Self-management
Manage transitions, pressure, priorities, boundaries and continuing development.
How each Leadership Move works
Every move uses a consistent structure so you can understand the issue quickly and act with greater confidence.
Situation
The recurring management moment the move addresses
What usually goes wrong
The common mistake or unhelpful reaction
Leadership response
A practical way to approach the situation
Credited framework
The tested model or idea and its original author or institution
Actions
Concrete steps the manager can take
Useful words
Conversation language that can be adapted
Within 24 hours
One immediate move to build momentum
Practical guidance supported by credited leadership thinking.
Relevant frameworks and models are identified with their original authors, leaders or institutions. This helps readers distinguish established leadership thinking from practical interpretation and application. Attribution indicates the source of the framework; it does not imply endorsement of this ebook.
Get the practical guide you can return to throughout your first year as a manager.
- The complete 96-page digital ebook
- 50 practical Leadership Moves across six areas
- Credited frameworks and leadership models
- Conversation starters and useful words to adapt
- Practical actions and a move to take within 24 hours
PHP 499
launch price through 30 September 2026
PHP 599 beginning 1 October 2026
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Developing several new managers?
Use the playbook as a common reference for manager onboarding, cohort learning, coaching conversations and workshop reinforcement. Digital team-license options are available for 10, 25 and 50 managers.
EZ E-books also offers a 90-minute online Leadership Lab and a half-day face-to-face Leadership Lab for teams that want guided practice around selected Leadership Moves.
10 digital licenses
PHP 3,990
Support a small management team
25 digital licenses
PHP 8,750
Support a department or cohort
50 digital licenses
PHP 15,000
Support a broader manager intake
90-minute online Leadership Lab
Introduce the playbook and practise priority moves
Half-day face-to-face Leadership Lab
Facilitated application and practice
Frequently asked questions
Your next leadership situation will not wait until you feel completely ready.
Use a practical move, credible guidance and clearer words for the conversation in front of you.
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