Reporting to
Incompetence

The curriculum

Eight hours of theory
will not get you
through Tuesday.

Six self-paced courses and one live clinic, built from the book and taken considerably further — scripts you can actually say out loud, templates you can send today, and one course written for the person on the other side of the desk.

Self-paced · lifetime access · 30-day refund

The catalog

Start anywhere. Most people start with Reading the Room, because an accurate diagnosis makes every later move cheaper.

Reading the Room

Diagnosing Managerial Incompetence Without Becoming a Cynic

4 modules14 lessons2 hr 30 minFoundation

Before you react, get the diagnosis right. General resentment solves nothing; accurate reading usually does.

$79 Details

Managing Up Without Selling Out

Field Tactics for the Six Difficult Bosses

6 modules22 lessons3 hr 30 minCore

Managing up is not servility. It is adaptation — reducing the damage weak leadership creates without endorsing it.

$149 Details

Politics Without Poison

Alliances, Diplomacy, and Not Being the One Who Gets Blamed

5 modules18 lessons3 hrCore

Weak leadership never operates in a vacuum. The org chart is not the power map, and the difference is where your safety lives.

$149 Details

Visible and Sane

Autonomy, Credibility, and Growth Inside a Dysfunctional Org

5 modules16 lessons2 hr 45 minCore

A struggling manager does not have to define the limits of your growth.

$129 Details

The Exit Plan

Nine Steps Out — and an Honest Case for Staying

4 modules20 lessons3 hr 30 minAdvanced

Whenever possible, do not resign without a firm next step. Professional exits preserve optionality.

$199 Details
For managers

The Manager in the Mirror

Repairing Leadership You Were Promoted Into

6 modules20 lessons4 hrFor managers

Most people do not set out to become the kind of manager others must work around. They arrive there through habit, fear, poor incentives, and weak models.

$249 Details
Best value

The Whole Asylum

Every course, one price

6 courses110 lessonsabout 19 hr

All six courses — the employee's five and the manager's one — for less than the price of four.

$599$954 Details
Live cohort

The Four-Week Clinic

Live, small-group work on the situation you are actually in

4 live sessions90 min each12 seats

Twelve people, four sessions, and your actual situation on the table — not a hypothetical one.

$549 Details

How the courses work

Buy once, keep it

No subscription and no expiry. Every course you own includes future revisions at no additional cost.

Written, then watched

Every lesson is a short video with the full text beside it, because plenty of people take these courses at work and cannot play audio.

Materials you will actually use

Scripts, templates, worksheets, and scorecards — downloadable, editable, and free of the branding that would announce where they came from.

Discreet by design

We never publish enrollment, never sell your information, and never contact your employer. Use a personal address if you would rather the receipt stay out of a company inbox.

Teams and employers

Yes, your employer can pay for this

Many do — including the ones being described. Ask for an invoice and one is issued from Shoreline Consulting LLC with the detail most expense systems require. Team pricing starts at five seats.

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