Resources
This list of resources is constructed to further your on-going learning.
They can provide you with methods, approaches, tools and techniques that will help you to be more effective. There are also papers and articles that describe models, frameworks, and principles that underpin these methods. Most of these are free and downloadable immediately. Others are available for purchase. Simply scroll down to the headings below and follow the links


Resources to Buy
Resources to Download
Change
Coaching
Communication skills
Complexity
Consulting
Conversations
Difficult Problems
Groups and teams
Leadership
Change
- More safety lessons from the field
- A Stake in the Ground – updated: building leadership capability for sustainability
- Book review – “Our House – Visual and Active Consulting”
- Gods in a time of Corona
- Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
- Where to from here?
- Reframing
- Podcasts for uncertain times #2
- Snake oil and culture change
- Podcasts for uncertain times
Coaching
- You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
- Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
- Feedback: the how
- The Power of Coaching
- Transition: the blindspot of change
- Handling the grey
- The seven conversations of leadership
- Tell, sell, test, consult, co-create?
- Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: principles, skills & practices that work
- Change and Transition
Communication skills
- What good looks like in large systems
- Get out of your own way and lead
- Surround yourself with difference
- More safety lessons from the field
- A Stake in the Ground – updated: building leadership capability for sustainability
- Workplace anxiety
- Book review – “Our House – Visual and Active Consulting”
- Things That Matter for Effective Leadership
- Psychological safety is the response you get
- The Great Resignation: real or not?
Complexity
- The Great Resignation: real or not?
- Balancing it all
- Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
- Responding to catastrophe
- Thinking and leading in complexity, crisis and catastrophe
- Sustainable Change: a whole of systems view
- Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
- Order in Chaos
- Thinking the Unthinkable
- Leading complex organizations
Consulting
Conversations
- The Great Resignation: real or not?
- Feedback: the how
- Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
- Creating psychological safety in teams
- Breathing 101
- Go visual! – the most important tool to improve communication
- Freeing the organization for change
- The Key to Aligned Action
- The key – knowing what outcomes you want
- Engagement versus Communication
Difficult Problems
Groups and teams
- Surround yourself with difference
- More safety lessons from the field
- Book review – “Our House – Visual and Active Consulting”
- When safety is lost
- How am I being experienced as a leader?
- Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
- You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
- Responding to catastrophe
- Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
- Intangibles matter when designing organizations
Leadership
- What good looks like in large systems
- Get out of your own way and lead
- Surround yourself with difference
- More safety lessons from the field
- A Stake in the Ground – updated: building leadership capability for sustainability
- Things That Matter for Effective Leadership
- Psychological safety is the response you get
- When safety is lost
- The perils and pearls of searching
- How am I being experienced as a leader?
Meetings
Middle ground
Performance management
Process and facilitation
Relationships
Safety
Strategy
Sustainability
Systems viewpoints
Teaming
Values
Ways of being
Meetings
- Workplace anxiety
- Mind games: speaking to large groups
- The sphinx
- Well-formed groups
- Tips for improving contributions in meetings
- The key – knowing what outcomes you want
- To be a Cat or to be a Dog?
- Nailing It: Commitment to follow through
- Better conversations with your team – Part 4
- Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
Middle ground
Performance management
- More safety lessons from the field
- Workplace anxiety
- Unconscious bias: how to become more aware of personal bias.
- The vexed question of performance appraisals
- Feedback: the how
- Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
- Receiving feedback
- The key – knowing what outcomes you want
- Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
- Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
Process and facilitation
- What good looks like in large systems
- Get out of your own way and lead
- Surround yourself with difference
- More safety lessons from the field
- A Stake in the Ground – updated: building leadership capability for sustainability
- Workplace anxiety
- Book review – “Our House – Visual and Active Consulting”
- Things That Matter for Effective Leadership
- Psychological safety is the response you get
- The Great Resignation: real or not?
Relationships
- What good looks like in large systems
- Things That Matter for Effective Leadership
- Psychological safety is the response you get
- When safety is lost
- You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
- Feedback: the how
- Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
- Creating psychological safety in teams
- The right frame – person or position?
- Leading complex organizations
Safety
Strategy
Sustainability
- A Stake in the Ground – updated: building leadership capability for sustainability
- Vale, Steve Zuieback
- Sustainable Change: a whole of systems view
- Life Cycles of Organizations: Implications for Leaders
- From clinician to leader
- If we dare! The possibilities of sustainable leadership
- A stake in the ground
- Embracing sustainability
- Safety: Lessons from the field
- AIESEC Presentation on Leadership Ethics and Sustainabiity
Systems viewpoints
- Vale, Steve Zuieback
- Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
- Responding to catastrophe
- Thinking and leading in complexity, crisis and catastrophe
- Intangibles matter when designing organizations
- Bold Herakles: An heroic organizational archetype
- Successful change: driven by clear outcomes
- Leading complex organizations
- A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
- Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
Teaming
- What good looks like in large systems
- More safety lessons from the field
- When safety is lost
- Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
- You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
- Responding to catastrophe
- Assessing team development needs – Handbook #3
- Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
- Team development: a guide
- Lessons from geese
Values
- More safety lessons from the field
- Gods in organization cultures
- A great leader (Reprise)
- Snake oil and culture change
- Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
- Feedback: the how
- Excellent Leadership: above the Dunbar number
- When institutions go bad
- Hades organizations: joyless and in the throes of dying?
- Lessons from geese
Ways of being
- What good looks like in large systems
- Get out of your own way and lead
- Things That Matter for Effective Leadership
- When safety is lost
- How am I being experienced as a leader?
- Vale, Steve Zuieback
- Podcasts for uncertain times #4
- Podcasts for uncertain times #3
- Gods in organization cultures
- Gods in a time of Corona