Radical Candor Essentials
Run Radical Candor yourself.
No trainer required.
A licensed toolkit for 90 minute sessions that your own leaders can facilitate. Kim Scott teaches on video, your people practice together, and you keep the materials for the year.
What teams learn
What Radical Candor is, why it matters in their role, and how to practice it.
Teams build skill in soliciting feedback, giving it, and gauging how it lands. They rehearse a real feedback challenge from their own work, get practical tips from colleagues, and leave with a commitment: who will do what by when.
- ✓ Radical CandorCare Personally and Challenge Directly at the same time.
- ✗ Ruinous EmpathyYou care, but you stay quiet or sugar-coat it.
- ✗ Obnoxious AggressionYou challenge, but you don't show you care.
- ✗ Manipulative InsincerityNeither. Flattery up front, criticism behind their back.
These are behaviors everyone slips into sometimes, not personality types.
Where teams run it
One license, as many places to use it as you have teams.
The more cohorts you run, the lower your effective cost per person.
- New-manager cohorts
- Onboarding classes
- Team offsites
- Department all-hands
- After a keynote
- Quarterly team resets
Who runs it
Built for a leader, not a trainer.
Anyone who can run a meeting can host a session.
Anyone can host
A leader, manager, HR partner or up-and-coming team member who can run a meeting.
Simple facilitation
Keep time, follow the agenda and move the conversation along.
No training required
No certification and no course to complete before your first session.
Video-led learning
Kim Scott delivers the core teaching on video, so your hosts don't have to memorize a script.
One thing that helps it stick
Have a senior leader open the session.
Ask them to share a time they received feedback. When a leader goes first, the room sees that Radical Candor applies to everyone, and the conversations that follow tend to be more open.
Everything your hosts need, and support after the first session.
You license the materials and use them as often as you like during the year. All of it is editable, so you can add your own references.
The session kit
- 90 minutes
- Teams of 6 to 30
- ✓Presentation deck with Kim's videos embedded
- ✓Speaker notes for every slide
- ✓Facilitator guide with timings, breakout activities, discussion questions and tips
- ✓In-session resource for participants to use during the session
Support and follow-up
- Virtual or in person
- ✓Check-in coaching after your teams have run a few sessions
- ✓Reinforcement emails, one skill per email, with practice prompts and a commitment to act
- ✓Compass, our AI practice partner, for preparing real conversations
Rolling it out
From license to your first session, with about an hour of prep for your host.
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License and prep
Receive the full kit and align on a rollout plan with us. Your host spends about an hour preparing. There is no training course.
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Run your first session
90 minutes for a team of 6 to 30, virtual or in person.
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Roll it out and sustain
Run it for every cohort during the year, then follow up with a survey, 1:1 go-to questions and Compass.
Priced by organization size and billed annually.
Where you land in the range depends on your headcount. Multi-year licenses are discounted.
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$5K to $15K
Annual license for organizations of up to 2,500 people, billed at the start of each year.
Up to 2,500 people
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2,500+
Larger organizations get a quote based on headcount.
Pricing on request
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Every team
Run as many sessions as you need during the license year, virtual or in person.
One license
Is Essentials the right fit? Compare your options.
Essentials
90 min sessions · Led by your own teams · Virtual or in person
Your own leaders guide the sessions with Kim teaching on video and small-group practice built in. The lightest lift of any format we offer.
- Best when you need to reach many teams on a modest budget
- No in-house trainers or certification needed
- Repeatable across cohorts, with follow-up built in
$5,000 to $15,000 a year
Workshops
Half or full day · Led by a Radical Candor facilitator · Virtual or in person
Live, expert-led practice on real scenarios, with coaching in the room. The most practice time of any format we offer.
- Best when you want expert facilitation
- Deepest scenario work and coaching
- Tailored to your team's situations
Starting at $9,500
Train-the-trainer
Certification for your training team · Led by your certified trainers
Certify your training professionals to teach the full program and carry it forward. The gold standard for building lasting internal capability.
- Best when you have training professionals
- A suite of full skill-building workshops in multiple formats
- Certification included
- Includes supporting resources for thorough reinforcement
Talk to our team
Questions
Things people ask before they license it.
Is there a certification?+
No. Essentials is a license to use our materials, not an accreditation. If you want certified facilitators, train-the-trainer is the right path.
Who should run the sessions?+
Anyone comfortable running a meeting. Kim's videos carry the teaching. Your host keeps time and guides discussion, with a facilitator guide and a kickoff session from us.
How big can a session be?+
Sessions are designed for teams of 6 to 30 and run virtually or in person. Larger groups can split into small breakout groups.
Can we edit the materials?+
Yes. The decks and guides are editable, so you can adjust spelling and language and add references to your own organization.
Is there a deadline to finish?+
No. It is a facilitated program, not self-paced e-learning, and there is no completion schedule. Run sessions when they suit your teams during the license year.
What if we want more depth later?+
That is common. We can add a keynote or workshop for the moments that matter most, or talk about certifying internal facilitators.
Next step
Not sure it's the right fit? Tell us about your team.
We'll say so if a different format would serve you better. Candor works both ways.