L&D, ENGAGEMENT
10% discount for oryx clients
Better frontline managers in five weeks.
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PRICING
CHF 450 ($500 USD) one-time per team leader, volume discounts apply
CATEGORY
L&D, ENGAGEMENT
AT A GLANCE
AI-driven leadership development program that upskills frontline managers in 5 weeks through personalized coaching sessions and realistic conversation simulations.
What is Skill Up Leader
Skill Up Leader is a 5-week AI leadership development program built for frontline and middle managers who need to lead better without spending months in a classroom. Team leaders complete three 15-minute AI coaching sessions using the GROW model, nine simulations of the workplace conversations most managers dread (feedback, terminations, salary negotiations, disengaged employees), and bookend the program with anonymous employee engagement surveys so you can measure whether it actually moved the needle. The whole thing takes about 2.5 hours per manager over five weeks.
Who it's for
Yes, if…
You're promoting a strong performer into their first management role and need them effective quickly
You have 3+ frontline or middle managers and want to run consistent leadership development across all of them
You're seeing engagement dip on specific teams and want a targeted intervention, not another company-wide survey
You've got a limited L&D budget and can't justify five-figure executive coaching per manager
You already run a structured engagement survey (or plan to) and want a program that plugs into that measurement rhythm
No, if…
You have only 1-2 team leaders in scope, you can run the program but won't get the aggregate executive report
You're expecting a full transformation program, this is a 2.5-hour intervention over 5 weeks, not a 6-month coaching engagement
You need in-person or human-led coaching as a hard requirement, this is AI-led by design
Our take
Leadership development for frontline managers is a genuinely underserved category. Most companies either send new managers to a $5K classroom program once a year or hope they figure it out. Skill Up Leader sits in a useful middle: cheap enough to run on every new manager, structured enough to actually build habits, and short enough that no one gets to opt out because they're too busy. The AI simulations are the real value here. Practicing a termination conversation before you have one is the kind of thing traditional coaching does poorly and this format does well. Worth a demo if you're promoting new managers this year and want a defensible development track for them.
Pros & cons
What works
2.5 hours of total time commitment over 5 weeks, so leaders can actually finish it without sacrificing a quarter's worth of work
Nine simulations cover the exact conversations new managers dread (feedback, terminations, salary negotiations, disengaged employees) so they practice before doing them live
Pre and post engagement surveys give you real data on whether the program moved the needle, not just certificates of completion
Executive report with anonymized team-level insights, so leadership sees where engagement is shifting without breaching confidentiality
Priced at CHF 450 ($500 USD) per team leader versus thousands for traditional executive coaching, way easier to justify budget-wise
What to watch
Requires at least 3 team leaders participating to unlock the executive report (their privacy floor), so teams with only 1-2 managers can't get the aggregate insights
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