FREE TOOLS & TEMPLATES
EMPOWERED DELEGATION
The Empowered Delegation Map is a simple, strategic tool to help you build new muscles for delegating with intention: build team capability, offer career development opportunities for your direct reports, reclaim your leadership capacity, and make time to focus on what matters most.
LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS / OVER-STRENGTHS
When well-intended leaders lean a little too far into their strengths, quality leadership behaviours become over-strengths. The ‘strength/over-strength paradox’ is a deceptively simple idea: a leadership strength, when overplayed, becomes a liability. This reference tool can help you identify your over-strength, and make choices about where you want to make some adjustments.
WHEEL OF HUMAN EMOTIONS
One of the most powerful ways to manage our emotions is to name them. When you’re feeling a strong or uncomfortable emotion, begin in the centre circle and identify the emotion category. Then move to the second ring, and identify the emotion sub-category. And finally, move to the outer ring, and see if you can find the nuanced name for what you’re feeling.
CHANGE BEHAVIOUR BY CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
We often move through our lives unconsciously navigating our daily routines. But if you’re trying to expand your awareness and become more intentional about your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, this tool can help you practice 'intentional noticing.' By viewing our experiences from new perspectives, we uncover hidden insights that can transform our mindset and behavior.
LEADERSHIP FLOOR WALKS
The floor walk is an effective management systems tool that allows for both learning and coaching to take place. The purpose of the floor walk is to go out to where the work is being done and explore with purpose; to find compelling evidence that everything is going well; to gauge how your strategic direction is being interpreted at the front edge of your workforce.
FIXED / GROWTH MINDSET AT A GLANCE
A fixed mindset believes that fundamental abilities, like intelligence and talent, are innate and unchangeable. But when we invest in developing a growth mindset, we are more able to view these abilities as malleable and capable of development through effort and practice, leading to higher rates of success in our careers, deeper relationships, and greater satisfaction in our lives.