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FOR TEAMS & LEADERS

Resources for Organisations

Everything you need to support your team's growth, resilience and performance.
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Clifton Strengths
What your team is naturally brilliant at.
 Communicating with impact
Being heard in the rooms that matter.
 Future leaders
Building leaders before they're in the role.
 Building resilience
Handling pressure without burning out.
 Values, purpose & mission
Getting honest about what you stand for.
 Books
Our reading list on strengths and purpose.
 Free downloads
Guides and worksheets for your team.
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Clifton Strengths

Understand what your team is naturally brilliant at, not just competent in, because people do their best work when they're playing to strengths, not managing around gaps.

Insights
Three questions for leaders to level up 1:1 Communication using CliftonStrengths
Clifton Strengths, Communication
Three questions for leaders to level up 1:1 Communication using CliftonStrengths
Clifton Strengths, Communication

If you’ve recently brought Clifton Strengths into your organisation, this one is for you. Clifton Strengths should never be a one off exercise - here we show you how to apply your team’s strengths to a specific challenge: Communication.

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Clifton Strengths, Communication
How to understand your team’s strengths
Clifton Strengths
How to understand your team’s strengths
Clifton Strengths

Should you invest in a Clifton Strengths program? It depends on your budget. What is non-negotiable is investing in a strengths based mindset within your team and organisation. In this article I share the benefits of Clifton and another (cheaper) way to bring strengths into the organisation.

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Clifton Strengths
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Communicating with Impact

Practical tools to help your people say what they mean and be heard when it counts, especially in the rooms where it matters most.

Insights
Three questions for leaders to level up 1:1 Communication using CliftonStrengths
Clifton Strengths, Communication
Three questions for leaders to level up 1:1 Communication using CliftonStrengths
Clifton Strengths, Communication

If you’ve recently brought Clifton Strengths into your organisation, this one is for you. Clifton Strengths should never be a one off exercise - here we show you how to apply your team’s strengths to a specific challenge: Communication.

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Clifton Strengths, Communication
Use this game to improve a common communication challenge
Communication
Use this game to improve a common communication challenge
Communication

One of the biggest communication challenges people face is not knowing what to do when they have dramatically less time than they thought. Try this fun game to get closer to being able to make an effective point.

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Communication
Communicating with Impact: 5 immediately actionable steps
Communication
Communicating with Impact: 5 immediately actionable steps
Communication

Do you have the good ideas, the smart points and the perfect action plan? If you do, but you often freeze when it’s your turn to get the point across - then this article is for you. We share five tips and a handy download that you can share around your organisation.

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Communication
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Future Leaders

Give your next generation of managers the self-awareness and skills they need before they're thrown in at the deep end.

Insights
What would you plan for a one day future leaders offsite?
Future Leaders
What would you plan for a one day future leaders offsite?
Future Leaders

In this blog, I’ve laid out exactly what I would do to plan a one day offsite for future leaders. It’s a fun plan to balance collaboration; buying into the company culture and skill building.

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Future Leaders
Reading list for Future Leaders
Future Leaders
Reading list for Future Leaders
Future Leaders

If you are a new manager (or running a manager development program) check out this short list of books to make a genuine difference in how you lead your new team.

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Future Leaders
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Building Resilience

Simple, evidence-based ways to help your team handle pressure and setbacks without running on empty.

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Actions to change your team’s relationship with stress
Resilience
Actions to change your team’s relationship with stress
Resilience

Most team’s think about stress the wrong way around. In this blog I will share how we reframe our understanding of stress, and what you can do as a leader to improve your team’s resilience to stress.

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Resilience
Three ways to build resilience at work
Resilience
Three ways to build resilience at work
Resilience

Most organisations treat resilience as something individuals should be educated on - free access to an app, an occasional wellbeing day, a one-off workshop - and then build on their own time. Here are three levers our HR and leadership clients use to build resilience across their teams.

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Resilience
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Values, Purpose & Mission

Help your team get honest about what they actually stand for, so culture becomes something lived, not just written on a wall.

Insights
Why talking about purpose with your high performers is a smart move to make
Values Vision Purpose
Why talking about purpose with your high performers is a smart move to make
Values Vision Purpose

So often, we’re scared to ask our team members, “what’s your purpose?” because we’re afraid they will suddenly think, “well, it isn’t working for you! I better leave!” In this blog I’ll break down why that’s misguided and why talking about it is actually the smart thing to do.

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Values Vision Purpose
How to get your team bought into the company culture
Values Vision Purpose
How to get your team bought into the company culture
Values Vision Purpose

A big challenge managers often have is: how do I get my team more bought into the company culture? In this article I share how a great place to start is with values and an exercise you can use in the next team meeting.

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Values Vision Purpose
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Books

A reading list we come back to again and again, on strengths, purpose and building better teams.

Book Picks
Go Put Your Strengths To Work by Marcus Buckingham
Future Leaders, Strengths
Go Put Your Strengths To Work by Marcus Buckingham
Future Leaders, Strengths

It gives a very clear framework, along with exercises, which will help you get to a deeper understanding of what it is that makes you and your team unique. The book cover looks a bit old and it sounds a bit textbooky, but don’t let that put you off.

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Future Leaders, Strengths
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
Future Leaders
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
Future Leaders

Coaches, leaders, managers. This one is for you. If you want to dramatically level up the impact of your 1:1 conversations, then read this book by Michael Bungay Stanier. It will give you 7 amazingly simple questions that will transform your leadership style.

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Future Leaders
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Future Leaders
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Future Leaders

When people ask me what books form my origin story (ok, no-one has ever asked me that), I will always give this one. It’s one of the books I read at business school that inspired me to pursue a career in change. First in consulting, then leading teams at Kraft Heinz, and now co-founding Wildest Dream.

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Future Leaders
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou
Future Leaders
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou
Future Leaders

New to management? Want to be the best manager you can be? Excited, scared, confident, stressed about being a manager? Yes, yes, yes. Then read this - it’s a perfect companion for beginning your people management career.

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Future Leaders
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Values, Future Leaders
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Values, Future Leaders

Erin Meyer does such an excellent job of breaking down where different countries sit across multiple dimensions of cultural difference (values) and most importantly, how you can bridge those differences.

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Values, Future Leaders
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Guides and worksheets you can bring straight into your next team meeting or 1:1.

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