Grow · Manager development

When your managers are underwater.

Boon Grow is a six-month leadership development program for managers and rising leaders: twelve 1:1 coaching sessions, optional peer group coaching, and pre/post measurement.

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Pre-to-post competency growth

+53%

Feedback

+41%

Delegation

+23%

Avg. across all

Top competencies by cohort growth, measured pre and post program.

A manager talking through a challenge in a 1:1 coaching session
Your cohortGrow

Leadership cohort

Session 7 of 12Month 4
Peer cohort

Promoted on Tuesday. Running 1:1s by Friday.

Great ICs get promoted for their output, not for skills nobody taught them. Grow builds the people-leadership skills over six months, so your team doesn't pay the price while your managers figure it out. For the fuller manager-effectiveness map, start with manager development.

Workshops & training days

1 dayof concepts, gone by Monday
Samecontent for every manager
Noapplied practice or follow-through
Nonemeasurable behavior change

Boon Grow

6 moof applied practice with a coach
3 to 5competencies your organization picks
Real1:1s on real decisions, plus AI roleplay practice
+23%average competency growth, pre to post

Six months, three phases.

How does Boon Grow work?

Twelve 45-minute 1:1 coaching sessions over six months, with optional peer cohort sessions woven throughout. The cadence gives skills time to land on the team between conversations, which is the difference between a workshop and a change in how someone actually manages.

The Grow cadence: a baseline assessment, twelve 45-minute 1:1 coaching sessions across six months (two a month), optional peer group sessions, manager check-ins at kickoff, midpoint, and close, and a post-program measurement. Average competency growth across Grow cohorts is +23%.

Phase 02 · Development · Month 3-4

Rep the skills that make the job.

Bi-weekly 1:1s focus on the competencies the intake surfaced: feedback, delegation, prioritization, difficult conversations. Optional peer cohort sessions run throughout: the room where managers bring the live situation and the cohort pressure-tests it.

Manager alignment

Three touchpoints with each participant's manager.

A short, structured check-in at kickoff, midpoint, and close. The manager's manager sees what the participant is working on, where they need support, and what changed, without sitting inside the coaching itself.

KickoffMonth 1
MidpointMonth 3
CloseMonth 6

Click a phase to see what's happening there.

We score each manager before and after.

Measurement only matters if it reflects how managers actually show up. Grow tracks specific, role-relevant leadership behaviors across the full program, at cohort level.

What we measure

  • Core leadership competencies
  • Change over time at cohort level

How we measure

  • Pre and post self-assessments
  • Manager and 360 ratings available
  • Ongoing coach observation

Program Impact

Measuring competency growth

Aggregate View
+23%
Overall Competency Growth
Avg Score Gain
+0.56
Giving & Receiving Feedback
2.14
3.29
+53%
Delegation and Accountability
2.43
3.43
+41%
Self Confidence & Imposter Syndrome
2.57
3.43
+33%
Prioritization & Focus
2.60
3.45
+32%

Anonymized cohort data

A flat fee per participant, or pay per session.

Your contract sets the model: a flat fee per participant, or pay for the coaching sessions used. Either way, the program covers 1:1 coaching, peer sessions, assessments, manager alignment, and the cohort impact report. No hidden add-ons.

Use the leadership development budget worksheet with your quoted price.

  • 0112 1:1 coaching sessions per participant
  • 02Optional peer group coaching
  • 03Pre and post competency assessments
  • 04Manager alignment (three touchpoints)
  • 05Cohort-level impact report
  • 06Flexible cohort sizes, 8 to 50
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Launch within a week of kickoff

Use Grow with other Boon programs

Many customers pair Grow with Scale, so every employee can book a coach, and with Exec for the leaders above your managers.

See the full system

Boon Scale

1:1 coaching for any employee.

Boon Exec

Executive coaching for senior leaders.

Boon Together

Team coaching and skills workshops.

Boon Adapt

AI change management.

What managers say after a cohort.

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I learned the 5-second rule, effective approaches to handling feedback, strategies for delegation, and mental training for navigating challenging situations. She also helped me overcome the fear of speaking up.

Participant · CPG / Manufacturing

From cohort feedback

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I learned that I view problems as opportunities for failure and that I don't need to know all the answers. Sometimes I just need to help facilitate.

Manager · CPG / Manufacturing

From cohort feedback

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Spending more time developing people rather than fixing their mistakes will open up a significant amount of my own time to focus on business development.

Participant · Retail

From cohort feedback

FAQs

A leadership development program is a structured way for a company to build its managers' and leaders' skills over time, usually combining training, practice on real work, coaching, and measurement. Boon Grow is a six-month leadership development program for new and rising managers: twelve 45-minute 1:1 coaching sessions, optional peer group coaching, manager alignment at kickoff, midpoint, and close, and competency assessments before and after, built on your organization's own competencies.
A workshop is one day. Grow is six months of practice on real situations with a coach. Most manager leadership training stops at knowledge transfer. The difference between coaching and training is that managers apply what they learn with ongoing coach support, peer learning, and measurable competency tracking.
Three touchpoints with each participant's manager: kickoff, midpoint, and close. These keep coaching goals aligned with on-the-job expectations and make behavior change visible beyond the coaching relationship itself.
Pre and post competency assessments across 3-5 org-selected leadership behaviors. Coaches also provide observational data. You get a cohort-level impact report showing exactly what changed.
Yes. Every Grow engagement is configured around 3-5 competencies your organization selects. Common choices include feedback, delegation, communication, decision-making, and confidence.
We rematch immediately. Matching considers role context, industry experience, coaching style, and the specific challenges each manager is facing.
Yes. Boon handles nudges, session prep, and follow-through in Slack and Microsoft Teams, so coaching shows up where people already work. Between sessions, participants get a summary of goals and action items, resources suggested for their focus areas, and AI roleplay practice tied to coaching goals. Employees can also use Boon inside AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT to prepare for sessions and rehearse conversations.
Their development history and goals carry forward, and they can keep their coach where the next program allows. Boon's five programs (Scale, Grow, Exec, Together, and Adapt) run on one platform and cover every level, from individual contributor to C-suite, so a promoted participant moves into the next program with the context they have already built.

Kick off your first cohort next quarter.

A short conversation to understand your organization and see if Grow is a fit.

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