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Management and Leadership Tools
Strategic Management: Situational Leadership
Practice Situational Leadership to strategically adjust your actions to align with the situation and associated needs.
Setting Actionable Goals: Think SMART
Use SMART, leads, and lags to define more specific and actionable goals, so your team knows how to achieve results.
Aligning on Expectations: Berkeley’s Formula
Expectations are our desires. Use Berkeley’s expectations formula to align with your team members.
Delivering Feedback for Success: SBI
Center for Creative Leadership’s, SBI is a simple formula to share the information your team members need to know how to be successful.
Intentional Prioritization: Eisenhower Matrix
Prioritize your work with the Eisenhower Matrix, originally developed by President Eisenhower to organize high-stakes issues.
Coaching as a Manager and Leader
Apply coaching skills and frameworks to inspire learning and growth through partnership.
Listening for Understanding: 3 Key Listening Tools
Practice active listening, levels of listening, and strategic questions to build greater awareness, trust, and alignment.
Delegate Effectively
Two key frameworks help leaders determine when and how to delegate by balancing delegation, monitoring, and doing it yourself.
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Stuff You Should Know
Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
Explore the key drivers of motivation and engagement to learn more about what inspires people to work and stay committed.
Leadership Theories and Defining Your Values
Learn the prevailing theories of what motivates leaders, consider where you relate, and define your own values for leadership.
Talent Management Is a Cycle Not a Timeline
Talent management occurs in recurring patterns and cycles. Learn more about talent lifecycles to understand how to build more strategic talent management.
Leadership and Management Competencies
Master essential leadership and management competencies to inspire success, drive performance, and build high-performing teams.
Managing through Change: ADKAR Model
ADKAR is a change model leaders can use to establish a plan to help individuals move through change successfully.
Drivers of Behaviors and Assumptions
Learn more about the forces behind actions and thoughts that you may have or see in others to deepen your understanding and adjust your approach.
The Ultimate Guide to Leadership Development
Practical strategies to build stronger leaders and create lasting organizational impact.
Negotiation Theories for Strategic Interactions
Consider negotiation theories to create more win-win scenarios and widen your scope of potential outcomes.