By identifying and reflecting on your core values, you gain crucial insights that guide your decisions and choices, ensuring they align with what truly matters to you. This exercise is particularly beneficial if you're at a crossroads, facing a major decision, or preparing for a significant change in your life.

The point of this exercise is to develop a deeper understanding of what constitutes bias and to try to pin down some of the biases we have as an individual or as a group, bringing them from the unconscious to the conscious mind.

Exchanging information and seeking support / guidance / action on challenges, experiences, tasks, and goals are key benefits of building a strong network and resource base because doing everything on your own can be time intensive, mentally and physically taxing, and quite honestly, lonely! This worksheet helps you pin down your needs / wants and match them with your support network.

We are drawn to stories from childhood through adulthood because they are engaging and captivating. Human brains are programmed to emphatize with characters in the stories, to follow a sequence of events to learn from, and to witness the exciting journeys the characters embark upon. They are an opportunity to connect emotionally and to unleash our imagination, and as such are easier to remember, follow, and understand. Storytelling, therefore, is a powerful communication tool. Talking about accomplishments, goals, struggles, aspirations, expectations, new initiatives through personal stories can be influential for leaders, salespeople, interviewees, etc.

Discovering and acknowledging your dominant style will increase your self-awareness and self-management, in turn giving you the opportunity to hone in on where you are the strongest and make adjustments where you think you can improve. This worksheet is an attempt to help you discover your style(s) and think about what leadership qualities you want to double down on as well as what habits you want to let go of to become a more effective leader.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes the flow state as being fully immersed in an activity, where time flies and every action seamlessly follows the previous one, akin to playing jazz. This state of complete involvement and skill utilization significantly boosts joy and happiness. The Flow Activities Worksheet helps individuals identify and delve into activities that bring them into this flow zone. It's an excellent tool for those seeking to revitalize their daily routines, enhance their personal life, achieve better work-life balance, and find greater satisfaction in their career paths.

The (D)RA(S)CI matrix is a responsibility assignment chart that maps out every task, milestone, or key decision involved in completing a project. It assigns specific roles to each action item: Driver, Responsible, Accountable, Support, Consulted, and Informed. ​ While RACI is the most common framework, over time, the roles of Driver (D) and Support (S) have been added, especially for large teams and complex projects. You can use the simple RACI framework, add D and S where applicable, or incorporate other roles as needed. Consistency is key, regardless of the framework you choose. Download this worksheet to ensure clarity in roles and responsibilities, improving communication and efficiency in project management.

A vision statement describes a company’s long-term goals, aspirations, ambitions, and the future impact it intends to drive. The purpose of this worksheet is to help you articulate a clear and inspiring vision statement that reflects your company’s core values and desired future state. By the end of this exercise, you will have a vision statement that not only encapsulates your company’s aspirations and ambitions but also serves as a foundation for future growth and success.

The Skill-Will Matrix is a visual framework that categorizes employees based on their skill level and willingness to perform. It helps distinguish between skill-related problems (low competency) and will-related problems (low motivation or engagement). By understanding the underlying factors, leaders can tailor their approach to address the specific needs of each employee.

A People Manager Survey is a powerful tool for evaluating leadership within an organization. It offers a unique opportunity for team members to provide candid feedback about their managers while maintaining anonymity. This fosters open and honest responses, ensuring feedback is centered on content rather than personal biases. Here, you'll find a sample survey to share with your team. Their input will be instrumental in enhancing your leadership skills and continuing your growth as a people manager.

In a world where time is a limited resource, productivity is the key to achieving our aspirations. This worksheet, tailored for both teams and individuals, offers insightful questions to reflect upon and actionable tools to elevate your productivity game. Designed specifically with leaders and professionals in mind, it helps you streamline tasks, prioritize effectively, and foster a high-performing team environment.

This worksheet is designed to help you apply key strategies to organize your tasks and enhance efficiency. Dive into and implement some of these strategies to see how they can transform your daily routine and lift the weight, that is your never-ending to do list, off of your shoulders!

This detailed worksheet combines the SCARF Model's five domains—Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness—with a focus on emotional drivers and incorporating team feedback. It's designed to help leaders navigate change effectively, fostering high-performing, adaptable teams by understanding and addressing key emotional triggers.

This worksheet is designed to help prepare for a negotiation, ensuring you have a clear understanding of your goals, the interests of the other party, and the potential strategies to use. Successful negotiation involves preparation, clear communication, and the ability to find a mutually beneficial outcome.

This template serves as a flexible guide for skip-level conversations, not a rigid checklist. Feel free to focus on the areas that are most relevant to the employee and their current context. And remember, it’s crucial to set an agenda for the meeting beforehand. Showing up prepared with specific objectives will make the conversation more valuable for both of you.

The purpose of this Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is to address areas where your performance does not meet the expectations for your role. The PIP outlines specific performance issues and defines the necessary steps to achieve the required performance level within a specified period.

Unlock the potential within your team, colleagues, friends, and family through the art of curiosity and impactful questioning. This carefully curated databank is designed to equip you with an arsenal of powerful questions, each crafted to ignite meaningful discussions and foster deep, lasting connections.

The activities in this worksheet are designed to introduce individuals to some basic theory to get them thinking about the importance of pushing themselves outside their comfort zone and into the stretch zone, which is where the magic happens!

Business Frameworks are useful tools to have in your toolbox. Management consultants and analysts often use these frameworks to analyze business issues, structure and clearly communicate their analyses and recommendations to their clients. This worksheet covers some of the most common frameworks that can be used to analyze a business, a company, a team, or an industry.

Growth mindset is a belief that you can accomplish your goals, desires, and dreams through hard work, self-confidence, effort, and a positive attitude. Your intelligence and potential is not limited or fixed. You can grow in unlimited ways. You confront failure with an attitude that you just need to try harder. This worksheet equips you with some ways to eliminate your (unconscious) fixed mindset language and replace it with growth mindset language.

It is common that we find ourselves "going with the flow" and drifting without feeling like we are getting anywhere in the busy lives we lead these days. Our jobs as leaders, managers, businesspeople, students, parents are hard, and there is a lot to do to "save the day". As such, it's easy to carry on without taking a pause to reflect on our goals. This goal setting worksheet is designed to make you take a pause and think about your desires, your priorities -- and for motivating yourself to turn them into actions that get you where you want to go. The worksheet is based on the SMART goals framework with additional thought bubbles on risks, resources, and rewards.

The OKR worksheet is designed to help individuals and teams clearly define and track their objectives, key results, and impact in a concise table format. It ensures focused execution and regular stakeholder check-ins to optimize performance. For detailed planning, tracking, and reporting, a comprehensive spreadsheet version is also available, recommended for thorough management of objectives, deliverables, KPIs, key results, and business impact.

A good mission statement describes what a company does (purpose), why it does it (reason for existence), and how it does it (real-life application) in a clear and concise manner. This worksheet helps you craft a powerful mission statement by identifying core values, clarifying your purpose, and detailing the impact you aim to achieve. By the end, you'll have a mission statement that captures your organization's essence and aligns your team towards common goals.

According to Adkins, there are five main styles of conflict management and no one is superior to the other. How effective each style is depends on the context in which it is used. This assessment is intended to help you identify your typical response to conflict, with the goal that when you encounter future conflicts, you will be aware of not only your instinctive reaction, but also the pros and cons of that reaction given the specific situation. Once you know your own tendencies, you can share them with your team and have a discussion on team norms around healthy disagreements.

Performance reviews have long been a cornerstone of the corporate world, shaping decisions regarding promotions, salary adjustments, and career trajectories. However, numerous misconceptions, biases, and damaging practices have plagued the performance review process, hindering its effectiveness and fairness. In this guidebook, we will delve into some of the most prevalent myths surrounding performance reviews, shedding light on the biases and BS that have perpetuated these flawed beliefs. By debunking these myths, this playbook aims to enhance the effectiveness of performance reviews and promote a more equitable and productive workplace.

This People Management Sample Interview Questions Databank is a valuable resource covering various aspects of people management, tailored to help candidates prepare for management role interviews. It includes questions that delve into leadership and management styles, teamwork and collaboration, performance management, employee development and retention, as well as change management and adaptability. Use these questions to sharpen your interview skills and demonstrate your readiness for a successful career in management.

The Strategic Planning workbook is meticulously designed to guide leaders and entrepreneurs through the process of yearly goal setting. This comprehensive tool encourages thoughtful reflection, clear vision setting, and actionable goal formulation. It integrates reflective inquiries with pragmatic strategies, assisting you in crafting a robust and adaptable plan for the upcoming year. Whether you’re aiming to refine your business direction, amplify growth, or enhance personal leadership development, this workbook serves as your roadmap to clarity, purpose, and strategic momentum.

This worksheet is designed for professionals who are seeking career advancement, whether it's a promotion, a role change, or a shift in career direction. The first critical step in this journey is identifying and leveraging your strengths. By understanding your key skills and competencies, you can position yourself effectively for your desired career move.

This comprehensive worksheet is meticulously designed to empower professionals with refined networking strategies, fostering meaningful connections that can expand their professional circles and elevate their career journeys. Through a series of targeted exercises, you will learn to identify key networking opportunities, develop a personalized networking plan, enhance your communication skills, build and maintain genuine relationships, leverage social media effectively, and measure the success of your networking efforts.

This template is a guide, not a checklist. You don’t need to cover every section in every 1:1. Depending on what’s most relevant, you might decide to dive deeper into specific areas and skip others. It’s essential to have an agenda prepared before the meeting—showing up with clear objectives helps make the conversation productive and focused for both of you.

By shifting to positive language, we create a more constructive and resilient environment. Reframing negative statements into positive ones helps reduce stress and fosters a culture of collaboration, making it easier to drive success together. Use this worksheet to explore practical ways to make this shift in your communication.

Effective executive communication is about delivering messages with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Leaders often face complex situations that require both strategic thinking and precision in language. This worksheet will guide you in refining your communication style to engage, influence, and inspire your audience. With exercises focused on structuring your message, choosing impactful language, and adapting to different audiences, this worksheet will help you communicate with authority and build trust at every level. Use it to develop a toolkit for clear, effective executive messaging that drives understanding and action.