For anyone managing a team for the first time

The right words find you, right when you need them.

Manager Mentor watches for the moments nobody trained you for — a hard 1:1, a client who's about to walk, a team member missing their mark. Synced to your calendar, the right advice lands in your inbox before the meeting starts. Right on Cue.

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Watching your calendar
Your cue · Performance management

1:1 Performance Check-In

Today · 3:00 PM
"Be specific when someone isn't meeting expectations. Generalities don't work. And write it down."

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When it counts

The best managers know the right words when it counts the most.

Pick the one that sounds like you.

You don't become a better manager by reading more advice.
You become one by having the right words ready when it counts.

The old way

A library you have to visit

Every answer is already written — in the Substack, the ebook, the worksheets. But someone has to remember it exists, open it, and search for the right one, usually after the moment has already passed.

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A system that reaches you

The same proven content, delivered the moment it's needed — matched to what's actually on your calendar today, not what you remembered to go looking for.

What happens between your calendar and your inbox

Two layers are allowed to notice a situation. Neither of them is allowed to write. Everything you receive is something Ron already wrote, tested, and published.

STEP 00

You connect your calendar

Sign in with Google — no separate account, no forms.

STEP 01

A situation is detected

Your calendar surfaces a fact — a 1:1 is coming up, an attendee is attached, a missed number is on record. (On Enterprise, Slack and CRM signals too.)

STEP 02

It's matched to a driver

The situation is mapped to one of your Six Drivers, based on the quick assessment you take when you sign up — not a guess.

STEP 03

Your language is retrieved

The exact passage Ron already wrote for this driver and this situation — pulled verbatim, never paraphrased, never invented.

STEP 04

It arrives before you'd have thought to look

A short cue lands by email, with a web version to open — ready before the meeting, not after it. (Slack, on Enterprise.)

Ron Ricci, founder of Manager Mentor
Who's behind the words

Not a consultant. Not an academic.
A top-quartile manager at Cisco.

Ron Ricci managed more than 5,000 people over his career and was consistently ranked in the top quartile of all managers at Cisco — one of the world's best places to work. He led Cisco's centers for customer experience and global demo engineering, and served as Chief of Staff to CEO John Chambers. Harvard Business School Press has published one of his books.

5,000+ people managed Top-quartile manager, Cisco Published by Harvard Business School Press

"Nothing you receive was written by a machine. It's the same language I've published for years — you're just getting it at the moment you actually need it."

— Ron Ricci, Founder, Manager Mentor

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