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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.

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.

Negotiation Theories for Strategic Interactions

Consider negotiation theories to create more win-win scenarios and widen your scope of potential outcomes.