Curriculum
Everything you can learn on KAYAS.
25 tracks and 111 lessons across leadership, management, and technical depth. Each track is a short path: you learn a concept, apply it, and Engram brings it back at the right moment so it sticks.
Leading people
Feedback, growth, and a team that holds together.
Delivering Feedback
5 lessons · ~27 min- 01From accurate to actionable~6 min
- 02Situation, Behavior, Impact~5 min
- 03Handling a defensive reaction~6 min
and 2 more lessons
View track 1:1s & Coaching
5 lessons · ~35 min- 01Whose meeting is it?~7 min
- 02Coach with questions, not answers~8 min
- 03Opening a hard conversation~7 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Hiring & Interviewing
5 lessons · ~31 min- 01Define the bar before you meet anyone~6 min
- 02Interview for signal, not comfort~6 min
- 03Separate evidence from conclusions in the debrief~7 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Performance & Calibration
5 lessons · ~34 min- 01What calibration is actually for~6 min
- 02Rate impact, not activity~7 min
- 03The biases that distort ratings~7 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Team Health & Morale
5 lessons · ~29 min- 01Reading disengagement before it becomes a resignation~6 min
- 02Psychological safety, and what it isn't~6 min
- 03Morale is a symptom: diagnose the cause~5 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Delivery and execution
Getting work out the door, and holding the line when it goes wrong.
Delivery & Execution
5 lessons · ~28 min- 01Find the constraint before you add process~6 min
- 02Slice work thin and vertical~6 min
- 03Negotiate scope, do not absorb pressure~5 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Project Leadership
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01Leading without the title~6 min
- 02Find the spine and the riskiest thing~7 min
- 03Unblocking is the job~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Scoping & Estimation
4 lessons · ~23 min- 01Estimates are about uncertainty, not effort~6 min
- 02Break work down until it is boring~6 min
- 03Negotiate scope, not dates~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Incident & Crisis Leadership
4 lessons · ~24 min- 01Your job in an incident is not to fix it~6 min
- 02Communicating while things are on fire~5 min
- 03Postmortems that change something~7 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Strategy and influence
Choosing what matters, then getting agreement to do it.
Strategy & Prioritization
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01Strategy is what you say no to~7 min
- 02Prioritize by cost of delay~6 min
- 03Connect the work to the business~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Managing Up & Stakeholders
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01What your manager actually needs from you~6 min
- 02No surprises: escalate early and well~6 min
- 03Map your stakeholders before they map you~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Communication & Influence
5 lessons · ~29 min- 01Lead with the bottom line~5 min
- 02Match the altitude to the audience~6 min
- 03Getting a peer team to move~6 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Influence Without Authority
4 lessons · ~24 min- 01Being right is not a strategy~6 min
- 02The meeting is not where it is decided~6 min
- 03Speak in the other side's units~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Product Sense
4 lessons · ~23 min- 01Read the spec for the problem~6 min
- 02Propose the cheaper version~6 min
- 03Match the quality bar to the bet~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Leading Change
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01Change fails at the habit, not the announcement~6 min
- 02Resistance is information~7 min
- 03Design the transition, not the end state~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Technical craft
The engineering judgment that senior work rests on.
System Design
5 lessons · ~31 min- 01Start with the requirements, not the boxes~6 min
- 02There is no best design, only trade-offs~6 min
- 03Find the bottleneck before you scale~6 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Technical Decision-Making
4 lessons · ~24 min- 01Decide how to decide~6 min
- 02Write the decision down~5 min
- 03Build, buy, or adopt~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Technical Writing
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01A design doc exists to get a decision~6 min
- 02Put the answer first~6 min
- 03Write the tradeoffs honestly~7 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Code Review
4 lessons · ~23 min- 01What review is for~6 min
- 02Comments that get acted on~6 min
- 03Review as teaching, not gatekeeping~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Production Ownership
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01Owning what you ship~6 min
- 02Instrument for the question you will ask at 3am~7 min
- 03Alerts that deserve to wake someone~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Working with AI
Using it well yourself, and leading teams that do.
AI Fluency
6 lessons · ~38 min- 01Tokens, context, and what a model costs~6 min
- 02RAG, in plain terms~6 min
- 03Evals: how anyone knows it works~6 min
and 3 more lessons
View track Leading in the AI Era
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01What AI actually changes for your team (and what it does not)~6 min
- 02Adopt without the hype cycle~6 min
- 03Evaluating the AI feature your team proposes~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track AI Engineering
4 lessons · ~25 min- 01The jagged frontier: what LLMs can and cannot do~6 min
- 02RAG, fine-tuning, or a bigger context~7 min
- 03Evals before features~6 min
and 1 more lesson
View track Career and growth
Building your own next level, and other people’s.
Career Growth
5 lessons · ~29 min- 01From aspiration to a growth plan~6 min
- 02Operate at the next level first~6 min
- 03Make your impact legible~5 min
and 2 more lessons
View track Mentoring & Sponsorship
4 lessons · ~23 min- 01Mentoring is not managing~6 min
- 02Let them keep the keyboard~6 min
- 03Sponsorship beats advice~6 min
and 1 more lesson
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Your first lesson takes five minutes, no account needed. Engram schedules the rest.