Live Training Built for Venture-Backed Startups

When the training is complete, employees are matched for peer networking & mentoring to increase impact, retention of top talent and increase sense of belonging.

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Insight Partners Spring Programs

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Manager Essentials 101
Level Up
Private Programs

Manager Essentials 101 + Personal DiSC Assessment

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Managers are key to your company’s success, driving employee performance and retention. This course’s four interactive workshops equip managers with skills for managing different styles, feedback, managing time, and delegation.

 

  • 4/23: Managing Different Styles
  • 4/30: Feedback with Finesse
  • 5/7: Delegation
  • 5/14: Productive Conflict & Difficult Conversations

 

RECOMMENDED AUDIENCE

  • New Managers
  • 0-3 years of experience

INVESTMENT & ENROLLMENT

Dates & Times:
  • 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14
  • 8am & 12pm ET
  • Workshop 1 – 120 min
  • Workshops 2,3,4 – 90 min
Investment:
  • $850/ participant

One year of access to platform resources, including drop-in mentoring and networking—designed to provide continuous support and empower growth.

Enrollment closes on April 4, 2025

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Level Up to Scale Up — Exclusive for Women

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Designed to address the unique challenges of high-growth tech companies, this program helps employees identify their strengths, craft personal brands, and increase visibility. Invest in retaining your top talent and empower them to contribute more effectively to your company’s success.
  • 5/20: Building Authentic Relationships
  • 5/27: Personal Branding
  • 6/3: Self-Advocacy + Business Impact
  • 6/10: Stakeholder Alignment

RECOMMENDED AUDIENCE

  • Women Individual Contributors
  • 3-10 years of experience

INVESTMENT & ENROLLMENT

Dates & Times:
  • 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10
  • 11:30am ET
  • 90 mins
Investment:
  • $790/ participant
One year of access to platform resources, including drop-in mentoring and networking—designed to provide continuous support and empower growth.

Enrollment closes on April 18, 2025

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Private Programs

EXPLORE PRIVATE PROGRAMS FOR YOUR COMPANY TODAY!
CHOOSE FROM OUR CONTENT OR BRING YOUR OWN!

  • The Forem offers 100+ training programs, ranging from skill development, including Business Writing and Presentation Skills, to upleveling Managers, to Executive Trainings.
  • Our programs are delivered by best-in-class executive facilitators who deliver highly interactive and engaging sessions. If you already have have a great facilitator, we can partner with with them too.
  • Participants will leave with models, frameworks, and tools that can be utilized to apply learnings immediately after the program and in years to come
  • Our cohorts can support up to 200 employees

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enroll, launch & measure

Insight Partners & The Forem work hand-in-hand to consult on the right training based on your organizational goals and budgets.
Onboard participants & automate participants comms, invitations, surveys.
Real-time data on performance, attendance & engagement. Our team partners with yours to ensure an impactful program that drives ROI. We leverage insights to continuously improve programs over time.

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We Boost ROI with Powerful Learning & Development Programs

PRE-NEGOTIATED
RATES

Benefit from pre-negotiated rates as an Insight Partners portfolio company.

These exclusive rates make it affordable for startups to invest in trainings for managers, GTM, engineering, and diverse talent.

Seamless Management

The Forem makes training a team or a large department seamless by automating participant onboarding, communications, surveys & attendance.

Our platform is flexible, allowing clients to turn features on and off based on your needs.

DATA DRIVEN
INSIGHTS & ROI

Real-time analytics on participant engagement and training effectiveness to inform strategic decisions.

SCALABLE
LEARNING

We make it easy & cost effective to scale training when you are ready - across teams, departments, or the organization.

WE MAKE TRAINING BETTER FOR PARTICIPANTS

LIVE
TRAINING

Experience live, interactive sessions, either in person or virtual, facilitated by your chosen expert or one from our team.

PEER TO PEER NETWORKING

Participants are matched for a full year of enriching networking opportunities with one another.

DROP-IN
MENTORING

Enjoy the flexibility to book monthly 30-minute sessions with mentors of your choice, including Executives, Coaches, and Operators.

NUDGES +
CAREER TOOLS

Gain a deeper understanding of participant needs and program ROI in real-time, driving impactful business outcomes.

1600+ INSIGHT PARTNERS PORTFOLIO PARTICIPANTS TRAINED THROUGH THE FOREM

92%​
of participants recommend The Forem to a colleague
89%​
of participants say they have the tools they need to have a bigger impact & be happier at work
83%
of participants from Insight Partner cohorts have an increased desire to stay at their company due to the training

Testimonials

The Forem really understands tech companies, the challenges that we face, and the various factors that really come into our culture and environment. The Forem worked closely with us to understand the skills and competencies that were really important to us, and then ensured our learning journey addressed these needs.

Tom Roesler

At Insight Partners, we do our due diligence before we identify partners to bring to our portfolio companies. The Forem is our go to partner as a result of their mindful approach to employee upskilling.

Dhanya Madhusudan

What is your favorite part of the experience?

“The engagement made learning enjoyable”

“To build an authentic personal brand that drives my career goals”

“My biggest takeaway was confidence - I feel like I have more confidence to not only advocate for myself, but to make new connections and step out of my comfort zone”

The frameworks, the Forem app is user friendly and helpful to connect with peers

“Being a manager is not easy. The tools that were provided to help us succeed as managers and the ability to chat with other participants about their experiences in their own workplaces were invaluable:

“My biggest takeaway was confidence”

“Networking and learning from others' experiences is invaluable”

Resources

Workshop descriptions

Manager Essentials 101 + DiSC
Level Up

Managing Different Styles

In this module, we draw on the DiSC model to learn about the four different styles: dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness. We examine how the approach to successfully managing each style is different and look at the priorities, motivations, fears, and limitations of each style.

Feedback with Finesse

Feedback is one of the most critical things people want but often the hardest things to give. In this interactive session, we distinguish between praise vs feedback as well as judgment vs observation

We review a permission-based process for delivering feedback that yields the most impactful results, strengthens performance, and promotes partnership. We’ll look at techniques that have been proven to be most effective and share many practical tips, tools, and examples to use. Lastly, we’ll talk about receiving feedback as a skill, and how to promote a 360 feedback culture within your team and organization.

Delegation

Delegating is one of the biggest challenges managers and leaders face as it’s often easier and faster to just do something ourselves, rather than invest the time to train someone else. In this module, we’ll look at the most common barriers we face when delegating and how to overcome each one with practical tips and tools. We’ll review a framework to help us determine not just what to delegate, but how to delegate. Participants will evaluate their to-do lists and apply their learnings in real time, so they’ll leave ready to delegate with greater consistency and confidence.

Productive Conflict & Difficult Conversations

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable, but far too many of us vainly hope to avoid it vs. building our capacity to deal with it successfully.

We teach tools and strategies for approaching and resolving conflict and review how to prevent conflict from escalating. We’ll also spend some time focused on difficult conversations. We’ll learn the “D.E.F.I.C.I.T.” model which helps participants organize their thoughts and approach to handling difficult situations. Participants have a chance to practice in a paired exercise.

Building Authentic
Relationships

This introductory event is an opportunity to get to know your facilitator and cohort, and review what you can expect from the Level Up program. Learn how to cultivate authentic, long-term professional relationships (even from behind a computer), and walk away with an action plan to ignite the confidence and motivation to start building your network on day one.

Personal
Branding

This collaborative workshop is dedicated to exploring the key ingredients needed to establish your authentic self at work. We will foster introspection to identify your unique strengths and passions, workshop those assets into a personal brand statement amongst peers, and practice naturally communicating it to others.

Self-Advocacy + Business Impact

We discuss “always-on” self-advocacy. What are the daily opportunities you can leverage to ensure your work is visible and your impact undeniable? Learn an effective framework that will help you clearly communicate your value to others, particularly through the lens of company impact, so you can maximize your work to be recognized for your value.

Stakeholder
Alignment

In this final, culminating lesson, we teach you how to identify the key people that can influence your career, and develop an action plan to turn them into advocates. We will examine effective strategies for packaging your “offer” to executives and other career stakeholders, and outline next steps to continue amplifying your visibility and value throughout your organization.

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FAQs

Participants have access to The Forem platform for a year from the program start date.
The workshops are all live. Recordings are provided after each workshop, but the best experience relies on participants’ live attendance.
You can purchase seats in packs of 5 (e.g., 5, 10, 15, etc.).
Workshops are non-refundable after purchase. If a participant is no longer able to attend, their seat may transfer to another participant within the same program.
We recommend that participants do a minimum of 1 mentor session per month.
Each mentor session is 30 minutes long.
We match mentors based on the information that each participant inputs during onboarding to The Forem platform.
The platform utilizes the participant’s profile information and networking goals to facilitate connections with relevant individuals.
Mentors are sourced based on areas of expertise and must have a minimum of 10 years of people or team management experience. Many of our mentors are certified coaches, and all are experienced leaders & operators in their fields.