FREE RESOURCES
Download, use, or share any of these materials & valuable gems to improve your greatness.
LEADERSHIP / MANAGEMENT:
– Manager As Coach: Fundamentals to Better Conversations
– Your Greatest Strength Can Become Your Biggest Blind Spot
– Top 2 Reasons People Stay or Leave Their Job
– Management versus Leadership
– 8 Signs of an Extraordinary Boss
– Influential leadership starts with Minding-the-Gap
– What Type of Leader Are You? (book)
– SMART objectives
– How to write a self-assessment
– How to conduct behavioral event interviews (“BEI”)
BUSINESS:
– How Executives are Making a Difference
– BUSINESS 101: Business vs Operational Plan
– BUSINESS 101: What is Organization Development?
– Three Secrets to a Competitive Edge
– How to operationalize your business plan
– Beyond the business plan: Assessing your operational plan
KNOW YOURSELF – ASSESSMENTS:
Enneagram 9 Types
Enneagram App for Daily Use
Enneagram Test by EIB (free)
Enneagram Test by EI ($12)
Enneagram Test by WPSS ($15)
Enneagram Test by NE ($10)
Enneagram Test by iEQ9 ($60/$120)
KNOW YOURSELF USING ENNEAGRAM:
9 Paths to Awareness, Acceptance, & Transformation
Self-Discovery – Essential Enneagram
Self-Discovery – Using the Enneagram
How to Know Yourself (Worksheet)
The Wisdom of the Enneagram (Bk)
Bringing Out The Best In Yourself: How to
TOOLS AND HOW TO:
– How to Mind-the-Gap when you think 7x faster
– How to Reduce Incoming Email -Increases Productivity
– How to ask clarifying questions for easier conversation
– How to be influential in one minute
– Yellow text on blue background increases retention
– GOALS: Vision Board: How to achieve a goal in 1 step
– GOALS: How to reverse engineer your goals for success
– MEETINGS: Ground Rules
– MEETINGS: How to Conduct a Very Effective Meeting
– SELF-ASSESSMENT: How to Write a Self-Assessment
– SELF-ASSESSMENT: How to Know Yourself
– INTERVIEWING: Get the Job in 30 seconds
– SELF DEVELOPMENT: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work
– SELF DEVELOPMENT: The Essential Enneagram
– SELF DEVELOPMENT: The Wisdom of the Enneagram
ARTICLES:
– HABITS: Myth of 21 Days to Change a Habit
– CALM: How to quiet your mind to be present, solve problems or sleep better
– GRATITUDE: How to determine your value
– BEING BIASED: You are naturally negative
COACHING:
– Bringing Out the Best in Everyone You Coach (book)
– Research shows 500% value
– What is coaching? (PDF)
– What is coaching? (video)
GAMES:
How to change your perspective (animation)
1 degree of effort makes a BIG difference (video)
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:
What is EI & Why it Matters
Bringing Out the Best in Yourself
Understanding yourself is a key to unlocking your potential and being more influential. Self awareness also raises your Emotional Intelligence (“EI”) which is the greatest predictor of success in life. There are a variety of available tools to facilitate self development, such as MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator), DISC, and Enneagram. Although I am certified in these multiple systems, I now exclusively utilize the Enneagram since it provides a more wholistic and systemic understanding of who you are and how to self manage for sustainable success.
Although one-to-one assessment is ideal, the link(s) above will take you to the organizations that provides an online assessment tools. No tool is perfect. The ones listed above have higher recognition for statistical validation. The ultimate decision is up to you regarding your type and/or working with a coach to explore your possibilities. The journey of self-discovery is the path to greater EI.
These tests are not associated or affiliated with me. I receive no compensation in any way to advocate or link to these assessments.
Resources:
According to the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, a person with emotional intelligence (EQ) possesses both personal competence and social competence. Social competence – that is, social awareness and skills-depends on an individual’s personal competence. Personal competence begins with self-awareness – emotional awareness, accurate self assessment, and self-confidence – and then expands to include self-regulation and self-motivation.
The most accurate and useful system available to help develop both personal and social competence is the Enneagram, which is why companies all over the world – Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Disney – are embracing it, and the CIA uses it to predict the behavior of foreign leaders. To use the Enneagram, a person must first accurately identify his or her own Enneagram style from among the nine unique personality styles identified by numbers One through Nine.(1)
(1) from Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s best selling book “Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work”