Soft skill courses leaders, managers, supervisors, and teams need for success at work.

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Tired of breaking your back, and the bank, to offer live and virtual employee training opportunities that no one shows up for?  Looking for an inclusive leadership, management, supervisor and team training resource that’ll turn your in-house training into a powerhouse?  If so, you’ve found a home in Masterful Management.

Masterful Management is a one-stop, on-demand training platform, housing over 550 expert-authored, affordable soft skill courses leaders, managers, supervisors, and teams need for business success.  Content is offered in three broad areas:

Courses are 8-15 minutes in duration and include 2-3 minute mini-lessons.  Admin. functionality supports calendaring, user communication, group discussion, and progress reporting.  An affordable, flat annual fee provides unlimited employee portal access, and there are no additional user fees or fee increases when new courses are added quarterly.

With Masterful Management, you’ll get premium course content without paying a premium, address soft skills training needs for years to come, and keep learners engaged by staying in touch when you can’t be face-to-face.

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Still unconvinced?!  Take your training temperature and measure the effectiveness of your current leader, manager and supervisor training program?  Need the numbers?! Consider the following soft skills training efficacy data:

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Of leaders, managers, and supervisors that have received soft skills training in the last 12 months say they have no plans to leave their employer.

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Of leaders, managers, and supervisors who’ve received soft skills training in the last 12 months have also been promoted in their company.

Why Us?

After auditioning more than 20 LMS training platforms and content providers including Biz Library, Corporate Training Materials, eLearning Brothers, Open Sesame, Paradiso Solutions, and Tovuti to name a few, Masterful Management chose the TalentLMS platform and course library for the following reasons:

Micro-Learning Format

Courses are 8-15 minutes in duration and include 2-3 minute mini-lessons. Easily digestible information reduces cognitive load, so users are more likely to complete training, enjoy it, and apply it at work.

Stories That Stick

Stories are one of the best ways to remember information, so every course is built around a memorable context users won’t forget.

Fun & Games​

Courses are gamified with badges, points, levels, leaderboards, and rewards.

Meet & Connect​

Training keeps learners engaged by staying in touch when you can’t be face to face. Easily host video conferences, leave feedback, start discussions, send messages, and more.

Expert Generated Content​

Each topic is heavily researched using the most up-to-date information from subject matter experts, and senior instructional designers review every course to ensure the intended skills and knowledge are transferred.

Device Agnostic​

The platform allows learners to access courses from anywhere, whether via desktop, mobile, or tablet. They can even train offline on mobile and sync their progress once back online.

Flat & Affordable​

TalentLMS’ licensing structure allows Masterful Management to annualize and fix our clients subscription cost. As a result, we do not charge per user fees or increase our fee when new courses are added every quarter.

Full Backend Visibility​

Client admin functionality supports calendaring, user communication, group discussion, and progress reporting.

More is Better​

New courses are added quarterly at no extra cost.

Multi-Lingual​

Several courses are available in Spanish.

Build-Your-Own Capability​

And if that weren’t enough, the Masterful Management TalentLMS platform allows you to create your own courses, incorporating all types of media including videos, presentations, and docs, and upload SCORM, xAPI, or cmi5 files for added user interactivity.

Course Library

Masterful Management offers a growing library of over 550 expert-authored courses covering the soft skills leaders, managers, supervisors, and teams need for success at work.  Courses are built to last and cover topics that will always be essential for business success.

Click on a training category in the graphic to reveal related sub-category topics and sample trailer videos.  In these videos, 10 animated characters assume a variety of roles (think superheroes, celebrity cameos, and the cast of TV’s best-known friends) to take the boredom out of training. Participants will fall in love with, and keep coming back to, these fun and addictive personalities without even realizing it.

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Still need more convincing?  Visit TalentLMS’ research portal to uncover the latest trends on workplace learning, in-demand skills, and the future of work. Digging into the revealed data trends, you’ll find research-powered insights into how people work and learn, along with practical advice on workforce and skills development.

About Ian

Ian Tonks’ journey began in the late 1990s when he led a 650-employee youth sports company that served Major League Soccer, the NFL, and Jack Nicklaus’ Golden Bear International. After marrying in 2006, Ian shifted to a role at a Bay Area university, leading capital campaigns and aiding the school’s transition to NCAA Division II athletics. In 2009, he launched a business development practice to help leaders grow strategically and sustainably. His first book, Replacing the Rainmaker, was published in 2015. Since 2016, Ian has been an Expert EOS Implementer, guiding leadership teams through the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS) to help them clarify their vision, strengthen their leadership, and improve business outcomes. With this experience, he has worked with countless entrepreneurs to successfully transform their organizations and align their people with their goals.

With three decades of leadership and entrepreneurial experience, Ian now leads several companies:

  • EOS Worldwide Expert EOS Implementer: Provides tools to help entrepreneurs clarify vision, build accountability, and strengthen leadership teams.
  • Talegy: Aligns people and business strategies to optimize talent and solve business challenges.
  • Masterful Management: Offers 550+ expert soft skill courses for leaders and teams.
  • Virtual Business Coaching: Delivers seven coaching programs for life and career transformation.
  • Replacing the Rainmaker: Helps accounting firms with business development.
  • EZ Coach: Simplifies youth soccer coaching with digital card sets and 12-week plans.
  • Team Retreatz: Creates off-site gatherings to boost creativity, growth, and productivity.
  • Decidifi: Streamlines decision-making with scorecards for personal and professional choices.
  • Charipillar: Offers engaging wellness challenges to boost well-being while aiming to raise $1 billion for charity.


Ian holds an MBA from Dominican University of California and a bachelor’s in sports science from the University of Northumbria. He enjoys fitness, golf, family, and travel and lives in Irvine, California, with his wife and daughter. 

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Ian Tonks, MBA
Head Trainer
2802 Retreat Circle,
Palm Desert, CA 92260

W: (415) 801-2661 C: (415) 847-2212 E: ian@masterfulmanagement.com

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Masterful Management is a one-stop, on-demand training platform, housing over 550 expert-authored, soft skill courses leaders, managers, supervisors, and teams need for business success.  For a flat annual fee, clients get premium course content without paying a premium, address soft skills training needs for years to come, and keep learners engaged by staying in touch when they can’t be face-to-face.

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Retail essentials; Applied retail

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Human Resources

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Diversity & inclusion; HR essentials; Hybrid workforce; Learning essentials; Nurturing talent; Recruitment 101 essentials; Work ethic

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Sales & Service

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Applied customer service; Customer service essentials; Customer service mastery; Applied sales skills; Sales essentials; Sales mastery

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Technology

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Artificial intelligence essentials; Coding for everyone; Cybersecurity

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Safety & Compliance

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Compliance essentials; Food safety essentials; OSHA work safety; Workplace safety essentials; Workplace health

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Business Skills

Sub-Categories

Business innovation; Business Continuity; Coaching essentials; Data analysis; Digital transformation; Finance essentials; Marketing essentials; Marketing skills mastery; Mindfulness; Applied project management; Project management essentials; Project management mastery; Teamwork essentials

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Personal Development

Sub-Categories

Career management; Mastering happiness; Networking; Online social presence; Personal finances; Presentation skills; Risk & uncertainty; Wellbeing essentials

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Leadership

Sub-Categories

Adaptive leadership; Communication skills; Entrepreneurship; Leadership essentials; Leadership tool kit; Remote leadership; Safety leadership; Situational leadership; Leadership role model

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Business & Life

The entrepreneurial and executive challenge is to get more out of work while simultaneously living your best life. The two, alas, are more often than not polar opposites, one thriving at the cost and detriment of the other. In the extended Business & Life track, you’ll put a multitude of tools into play, helping you to be more a more effective person and workplace contributor. You’ll learn how to thrive in a business that supports your personal vision, get a clear picture of your strengths and weaknesses and use that information to inform goals, find answers to problems that allow you to make critical decisions, better manage multiple competing issues and demands on your time, and be generally happier and more productive at work and play.

Session topics include:

  • Visioning
  • Mission statement generator
  • Business vision in action
  • Business SWOT analysis
  • Business strengths builder
  • Business weakness zappers
  • Goals, quarterly priorities and to do’s
  • Mentor magic
  • Urgence and importance matrix
  • Interruptions blaster
  • Big rocks
  • Delegation identifier
  • Action priority matrix
  • Personal SWOT analysis
  • Personal strengths builder
  • Personal weakness zappers
  • Daily success habits
  • Hidden time wasters
  • Reclaim your energy
  • Let go list
  • Tolerations no more

Self-Discovery

Most people come to coaching with specific goals in mind.  But to be truly happy, we need to do more than simply achieve our goals.  We need to know who we are and be congruent with that sense of self, aligning our values with our actions and decisions.  In the Self-Discovery track, you’ll get to know yourself better and learn to express yourself more authentically in the world, aligning your values, priorities and actions with who you really are.

Session topics include:

  • My heart sings
  • Who am I?
  • Role model confidence boosters
  • Personal values
  • Daily gratitude diary
  • Intuition and dream symbols
  • Draw out the gremlin

Career Coaching

Whether you’re dissatisfied at work and actively contemplating a new career, going through a role change, or in search of career advancement opportunities, the Career Coaching track will teach you how to boost your strengths and minimize your weaknesses, discover what’s truly important to you in your work, and identify patterns and threads that will lead you to a happier career.

Session topics include:

  • Reclaim your power at work
  • Personal SWOT
  • Identify your career values
  • Boost your strengths
  • Zap your weaknesses
  • Career discovery
  • 360 feedback

Goal-Setting

When you have a vision for your life, it makes everything easier, including prioritizing actions, eliminating non-essential tasks and making tough decisions. And when your goals align with your vision, you’re more motivated to “do the work.” In the Goal-Setting track, you’ll learn how to “chunk down” vision into smaller, more meaningful (and exciting) priorities that drive daily activities and commitments.

Session topics include:

  • Whole life vision
  • 10-year vision
  • 90-day vision
  • Wacky wild goals
  • Goal why’s
  • Goal motivators
  • SMART goal-setting
  • Annual goal-setting

Time Management

For many of us, it’s a given that we work hard, but are we always working effectively? What could we gain if we managed our time better? Could we take the time we’ve “found” and invest it in other important things, like relationships, inner peace, serving others, and pursuing interests and passions? In the Time Management track, you’ll learn to identify and prioritize what really matters, across life and work, and apply proven techniques, tools and strategies that ensure your priorities are prioritized.

Session topics include:

  • Big rocks and little rocks
  • Urgence and importance quadrants
  • Action priority matrix
  • New to-do list
  • From inspiration to action
  • Interruptions blaster
  • Not to-do list
  • Hidden time waster reveal

Balance and Self-Care

We live in a society that lauds achievement, status and success. We work ourselves to the bone, ignoring what our bodies and minds are telling us along the way. What’s the point of success and a great career, if you’re always stressed, overwhelmed, and fatigued? In the Balance and Self-Care track, you’ll learn to prioritize life balance and self-care, and to reclaim joy and substance in your life.

Session topics include:

  • The wheel of life
  • Self-care quiz
  • Comfort zone
  • Energy zappers
  • Relationship detox
  • Self-care & needs review
  • The power of No!
  • Letting go

Life Coaching

To achieve things that give our life meaning, we need to find ways to stay energized, get stuff done and keep moving forward. In the Life Coaching track, you’ll feel energized, inspired and supported to do more of what you love and less of what you don’t. You’ll learn to effectively plan your week and create supportive daily habits to help you take stock of where you are, get “unstuck”, and bring lightness to big and overwhelming tasks.

Session topics include:

  • Spark team
  • Love and loathe list
  • Weekly success planning
  • Daily success habits
  • Take stock and act
  • Stop procrastinating
  • Unstick yourself
  • Eat your elephant

Limited time offer

Spring Clean Your Life

$3,500

To “spring clean” your life, you need to understand how and where your life is draining you.  For many, that feeling of being overwhelmed comes from too many tasks, too many commitments, and being surrounded by people who don’t support or inspire you.  In this limited time Spring Clean Your Life offering, you’ll establish a clear 90-day plan for living your life “on purpose.”

Session topics include:

  • The wheel of life
  • Take stock and act
  • Energy zappers
  • Stop procrastinating
  • Detox toxic relationships
  • Three-month vision
  • Letting go
  • Daily success habits

Contact me to schedule a free 15-minute call to identify your needs and determine if we are a fit.

Self-Discovery

Most people come to coaching with specific goals in mind.  But to be truly happy, we need to do more than simply achieve our goals.  We need to know who we are and be congruent with that sense of self, aligning our values with our actions and decisions.  In the Self-Discovery track, you’ll get to know yourself better and learn to express yourself more authentically in the world, aligning your values, priorities and actions with who you really are.

Session topics include:

  • My heart sings
  • Who am I?
  • Role model confidence boosters
  • Personal values
  • Daily gratitude diary
  • Intuition and dream symbols
  • Draw out the gremlin