The Library
Leadership tools.
Frameworks you can work through live in a workshop, with your team, or on your own.
Lead Yourself
Self-awareness, strengths, and personal effectiveness.
Guide
Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern
Find the part of a stubborn problem you can actually act on, and put your effort there
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Guide
The Executive Presence Wheel
Find the one part of your executive presence to work on next, and practise a specific change
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Guide
The Four Lenses
Check a decision from all four angles before you commit, including the ones you usually skip
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Guide
The Ladder of Inference
Check what a judgment about someone rests on before you act on it
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Lead Others
Trust, communication, and leading individuals and teams.
Assessment
The Trust Equation
Trust is the sum of credibility, reliability, and empathy, divided by how much self-interest shows.
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Reference
Powerful Coaching Questions
Seven questions that turn telling into asking. Use them in 1:1s, when coaching, when you're tempted to give the answer.
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Prep
The One-to-One Meeting Playbook
Walk into your next one-to-one with a clear agenda. Five sections that turn reporting into conversation.
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Guide
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Find the real cause when your leadership team agrees in the room and then fails to deliver
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Guide
Setting and Maintaining High Standards
Set a clear bar for both results and behaviour, then hold it when someone falls short
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Guide
Levels of Listening
Find out where your attention is while someone is talking
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Guide
Radical Candor
Prepare and hold the feedback conversation you have been putting off
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Guide
SBI Feedback
Give feedback about one specific thing a person did, in a form they can act on
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Lead the Business
Decision-making, strategy, and operational leverage.
Workflow
Decisiveness Under Uncertainty
A five-step way to think through a decision when you don't have enough information to be certain.
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Guide
Running Productive Meetings
Get decisions and owners out of the recurring meetings that fill your week
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Guide
RASIC
When ownership on a project is unclear, settle who does the work, who owns it and who helps
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