Resources for Leaders & Individuals
Whether you’re a leader seeking to develop and support your people, or you’re an individual seeking your personal and professional development – there’s something here for you.
All are free, though some require an email address. Where relevant, each offers ideas for using it with your team.
Communication Skills Assessment
The Leadership Communication Skills Assessment is a nine-question quiz whose results offer insights into how well you connect with the important people in your career and life.
It’s been used by several universities as well as within corporations!
Teams: take the assessment individually, and then meet to discuss results and how you can support each other in improving.
Click here to take the Leadership Communication Skills quiz
Taming the Resistance Monster
Resistance to change may not be what you think it is! This brief guide will help you understand the Resistance Monsters on your team – and help them work through their resistance to become active, engaged participants in a successful change initiative. Your email address is all that’s required to download the booklet.
Leaders: this is the resource you need to understand how to navigate resistance.
Leadership A to Z
One management and leadership skill per letter. One brief (under four minutes) video per skill. A great micro-learning for you as an individual, or for your team.
I do not recommend binge-watching! They’re small and thought-provoking; you need time to consider how you’re using each skill (or not!) in your work life.
Teams: meet together to watch the videos and then discuss.
Click here to view the videos. No email required.
Employee replacement costs calculation
Do you know how much it really costs to replace an employee – especially (and expensively) a failing manager or supervisor?
After months of research, I created a replacement costs worksheet that you can download, with a pre-filled example and clear instructions to fill it out for your own situation.
This is primarily a leadership resource rather than for teams or individuals. No email is required; click here to download the Excel spreadsheet.
Useful Papers
I’ve written several papers on the subject of personal and organizational change These are PDFs formatted to read easily on your computer screen, although of course you can print them out as well.
Papers include the following – click here to review in more detail and download.
- A glossary of important DEI&B terms – essential diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging terms to understand.
- How to convince your manager to support your professional education – a step-by-step guide to preparing your case for attending a conference or taking a workshop.
- A checklist for placing someone on a Performance Improvement Plan – nothing anyone wants to do, but sometimes necessary.
- The discipline of reflective review – a quick and easy way to assess how that meeting went, how your day progressed, and what went right this month.
- Why change initiatives fail – it’s far from the definitive resource, being both brief and free, and it’s a helpful overview of the major failure points and how to prevent them.
These are useful for leaders and individuals. I especially recommend the Glossary as an important reference for anyone, and a great way to initiate discussion around these important DEI issues.
Click here to review all Useful Papers