You can invest in great people, strong systems, and ambitious targets. But if your team can’t handle feedback, disagreement, and difficult conversations, you’re paying for talent you can’t fully use.
We train people for the moments where work starts to break down.
Beyond The Man Box creates experiential emotional intelligence training for companies and nonprofits. We specialize in men and the patterns that can shape how they lead, receive feedback, handle conflict, and work with others. We also train mixed-gender teams.
Our custom software helps people keep practicing after the workshop, when those skills have to hold up during a real workday.
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Another meeting to settle something that should have taken ten minutes. A good employee who leaves because the same conflict never gets addressed. A manager you promoted for their technical skill who now struggles to lead a team.
And sometimes the cost walks straight into a sales call or a client meeting.
You pay to find, onboard, and train good people. When one leaves because concerns were dismissed or a manager couldn’t work through conflict, you pay to do it again. From the top, it might look like normal turnover. But the problem that drove them out is still there, waiting for the next hire.
That’s an expensive problem you can actually work on.
Companies don’t need their people to become perfect communicators. They need fewer preventable mistakes, faster resolution when things go wrong, and managers who can get the best work out of the people they’ve hired.
Our specialty is men and male-dominated teams. We look at the habits people bring into the workplace, including the pressure some men feel to always have the answer or never appear wrong. Then we practice what to do differently.
We also run mixed-gender workshops, because these dynamics affect everyone on the team. Our custom software helps people keep practicing after the workshop, when the next difficult conversation shows up at work.
You’ve already invested in your people. Let’s help them work well enough together to deliver on that investment.
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A man gets corrected at work. He knows he made a mistake, but admitting it feels like looking weak. So he argues every detail. His manager sees an employee who can’t take feedback. He sees someone trying to disrespect him.
You can help him get the job. But if nobody helps him understand that reaction, keeping it may be much harder.
Many men grow up with rules like don’t look weak, don’t ask for help, and don’t let anyone disrespect you. Time in jail, prison, or the military can reinforce some of those rules. What helped a man get through one environment can cost him opportunities in another.
And it doesn’t stop at work. He might need to tell his housing caseworker he’s struggling before he loses his place. He might want to reconnect with his adult son, but every attempt turns into advice or an argument. He might know his romantic relationship is in trouble but have no idea how to tell his partner what he needs.
Programs often see the consequences. Far fewer give men a place to examine the rules underneath them and practice a different response.
That’s the gap we work in.
We tailor the work for the men you serve, including men navigating addiction recovery, veterans, foster care alumni, fathers, men living with disabilities, men returning home from jail or prison, men navigating workforce transitions, and senior men. Our custom app helps them practice between sessions and gives your team a way to see their progress.
Build a program for the men you serveis understanding yourself.
What sets you off? What do you need? What do you do when things get uncomfortable, and is it getting you the result you want?
is understanding what happens between you and someone else.
They may think differently, communicate differently, or need something you wouldn’t have guessed. How do you understand each other well enough to work through a problem and find a way forward that works for both of you?
Together, these skills help people handle the conversations that affect their work, opportunities, and relationships.
We bring situations your people recognize into the room: a missed deadline, a concern that keeps getting dismissed, or two people who see the same problem completely differently. Participants practice how to handle those moments, get feedback, and try again.
Nobody has to work through a live conflict with a coworker in front of the group. When a conversation needs to happen between specific people, we can make space for that privately. We use the same framework and tools to help them prepare, talk through what’s happening, and find a way forward.
People leave the workshop having practiced the skills, not just heard about them.
We’ve built workshops around difficult conversations, the reactions that take over when someone feels challenged, and the different ways people handle conflict.
We bring a gender socialization lens to all our training. It helps people see how the rules they learned growing up shape what they say, what they hold back, and what they hear when someone else speaks. In mixed-gender workshops, we also look at how the different rules men and women learned can cause them to misread each other, whether they’re coworkers, partners, or family.
You can start with a workshop that’s ready to run, have us build one around a challenge your people are facing, or create an ongoing program with room to practice over time.
Talk through the options with JasonSomeone can leave a workshop ready to do things differently and still fall into an old habit on Thursday.
Our custom app helps people practice between sessions and gives your organization a way to see their progress. We build the live training and the ongoing practice around the situations your people actually face.
If you’re a company, tell us where work is slowing down, good people are leaving, or teams keep getting stuck.
If you’re a nonprofit, tell us what the men you serve are working toward and where communication or relationships keep getting in the way.
We’ll talk about what’s happening and what training could look like.