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The knowledge companion and the fillable PDF. Included with every matching course. Sold separately if you want the files on their own.

The booklet is the knowledge companion: frameworks, tables, the quick reference you keep after the session. The workbook is the fillable PDF. You put one real situation of your own through the steps. Buy either one, or both together at the pair price.

Booklet $27 Workbook $17 Booklet + Workbook $37
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Coaching Intervention Strategies for Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors Participant BookletCoaching Intervention Strategies for Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Coaching Intervention Strategies for Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors

Most managers label someone difficult and then coach the label. This participant booklet walks the diagnosis the other way: what the relationship already decided, where counterproductive behavior actually comes from, and which of the 3 C's (coaching, counseling, corrective action) fits the facts in front of you....

Booklet 35 pages · Workbook 13 pages · PDF download

Delegate to Get Your Time Back Participant BookletDelegate to Get Your Time Back Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Delegate to Get Your Time Back

Who is ready for which work, how to teach the rest, and what every shortcut costs you. Six sections (plus an optional ENRICH module) built to sit on your desk after the course ends.

Booklet 35 pages · Workbook 18 pages · PDF download

How Do I Get My Boss To...? Participant BookletHow Do I Get My Boss To...? Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How Do I Get My Boss To...?

The participant booklet for the course taught from How Do I Get My Boss To...? Seventeen Keys on leading up: how a boss reads you, what you keep in the dated record, and the words that make each Key work on a Tuesday.

Booklet 64 pages · Workbook 22 pages · PDF download

How Self-Awareness Leads to Effective Communication Participant BookletHow Self-Awareness Leads to Effective Communication Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How Self-Awareness Leads to Effective Communication

What you say, what you hold back, and what others see that you do not. The knowledge companion to the session: the Johari Window, the faux feeling decoder, feedback and disclosure, explained in full.

Booklet 62 pages · Workbook 14 pages · PDF download

How to Be the Adult in the Room Participant BookletHow to Be the Adult in the Room Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Be the Adult in the Room

Become a response-able team member. This booklet covers Transactional Analysis at work: the three ego states, how transactions and triggers escalate, assertive communication, and seven practices for effective confrontation.

Booklet 24 pages · Workbook 13 pages · PDF download

How to Correct a Bias You Can't See Participant BookletHow to Correct a Bias You Can't See Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Correct a Bias You Can't See

A book of corrections, not confessions. It starts where watching yourself runs out: the hire, rating or raise that leaned while nothing in you objected. Seven sections across two sessions, each ending on a change you can build into work you already do.

Booklet 31 pages · Workbook 20 pages · PDF download

How to Deal With Microaggression at Work Participant BookletHow to Deal With Microaggression at Work Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Deal With Microaggression at Work

A standalone reference for the DKA course on workplace microaggression. Written for participants, and useful if you never took the class: for the person who caused harm, the person who absorbed it, the witness, and the manager who wants to do better.

Booklet 51 pages · Workbook 21 pages · PDF download

How to Develop and Keep a Team Unlike You Participant BookletHow to Develop and Keep a Team Unlike You Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Develop and Keep a Team Unlike You

For managers of every background who lead people unlike them somewhere. Seven sections on reading a person accurately, growing them without asking them to become somebody else, and learning what would take them while there is still time to act.

Booklet 33 pages · Workbook 19 pages · PDF download

How to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Part One Participant BookletHow to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Part One Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Part One

The knowledge companion to Part One of the emotional intelligence course: every framework, case and tool explained in full, so it still works a year from now.

Booklet 70 pages · Workbook 14 pages · PDF download

How to Give (and Receive) Negative Feedback Positively Participant BookletHow to Give (and Receive) Negative Feedback Positively Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Give (and Receive) Negative Feedback Positively

A standalone reference on the hardest thirty minutes of the week. It replaces folklore (the sandwich, soft opens, praise ratios applied at the wrong moment) with a small set of principles, two delivery models, and a vocabulary for the conversation.

Booklet 42 pages · Workbook 13 pages · PDF download

Leadership Skills for New Managers Participant BookletLeadership Skills for New Managers Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Leadership Skills for New Managers

Two sessions, seven sections, plus an optional ENRICH module. What changes the day you take the chair: from doing the work to leading it, what you stand on, setting direction from the middle, leading across, the team you inherit, and handing work off on paper.

Booklet 45 pages · Workbook 20 pages · PDF download

Leading the Human Side of Change Participant BookletLeading the Human Side of Change Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Leading the Human Side of Change

For the manager between a decision made upstairs and a team that has to live it. Six sections on the date and the distance, what a change takes, how you tell it, the first ten minutes, when the change is AI, and the ones who stay.

Booklet 32 pages · Workbook 18 pages · PDF download

Leading Up While Standing Out, Part One Participant BookletLeading Up While Standing Out, Part One Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Leading Up While Standing Out, Part One

The ENRICH Outsider's career manual, Part One. Nine Keys on leading up while standing out, every framework drawn, with the scripts and the receipts practice read across all six dimensions of ENRICH.

Booklet 54 pages · Workbook 16 pages · PDF download

Leading Up While Standing Out, Part Two Participant BookletLeading Up While Standing Out, Part Two Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Leading Up While Standing Out, Part Two

Part Two of Leading Up While Standing Out: the record, the voice and the access, Key by Key, with every framework drawn and every dimension of ENRICH in play.

Booklet 50 pages · Workbook 16 pages · PDF download

Seeing Around the Corner Participant BookletSeeing Around the Corner Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Seeing Around the Corner

Where a change shows before the memo, which part of your job it reaches first, and who hears it before you do. One session, four sections, plus an optional ENRICH module on why the corner is not the same height for everyone.

Booklet 25 pages · Workbook 17 pages · PDF download

The Effective Listening Masterclass Participant BookletThe Effective Listening Masterclass Workbook (Fillable PDF)

The Effective Listening Masterclass

The knowledge companion to the session: the ten practices, the three stages, the listening deposit and the latent channel, explained in full.

Booklet 65 pages · Workbook 13 pages · PDF download

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How to Get a Label Out of Your File Participant BookletHow to Get a Label Out of Your File Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Get a Label Out of Your File

For anyone with a word in their file that no longer describes them, or never did. Session 1 finds the word. Session 2 gets it out: what to say when it is read to you, what to write afterward, and the dated record that answers it.

Booklet 31 pages · Workbook 19 pages · PDF download

How to Get a Yes That Doesn't Cost You Later Participant BookletHow to Get a Yes That Doesn't Cost You Later Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Get a Yes That Doesn't Cost You Later

Two sessions on getting a yes that does not cost you later: the fake yes, whose concession is expected, interests vs positions, and what to do when the number is locked or two of yours cannot work together.

Booklet 32 pages · Workbook 19 pages · PDF download

How to Get Promoted When the Decision Happens Without You Participant BookletHow to Get Promoted When the Decision Happens Without You Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Get Promoted When the Decision Happens Without You

Session 1 on how the decision is made: who gets the role, who gets the favor, the audition nobody announces, and the person who carries your name. Session 2 on what you do around it: too valuable to move, promoted into trouble, and after the no.

Booklet 25 pages · Workbook 19 pages · PDF download

How to Lead People Who Don't Have to Listen to You Participant BookletHow to Lead People Who Don't Have to Listen to You Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Lead People Who Don't Have to Listen to You

Eight sections on leading people who do not report to you: peers, other departments, project teams, a second boss, the people above you both, and the departments that wait on your work. Each part names the line it works across so you can go straight to the pages you need that week.

Booklet 36 pages · Workbook 21 pages · PDF download

How to Read the Politics Nobody Explained to You Participant BookletHow to Read the Politics Nobody Explained to You Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Read the Politics Nobody Explained to You

For people who are good at the work and keep being surprised by what happens around it. Eight readings across two sittings: who decides, who gets heard, how a complaint travels, who moves together, which doors other people hold, and how you are read before you say a word.

Booklet 33 pages · Workbook 21 pages · PDF download

How to Say No to Someone With Power Over You Participant BookletHow to Say No to Someone With Power Over You Workbook (Fillable PDF)

How to Say No to Someone With Power Over You

For anyone who reports to someone. Eight verbs across two sessions: read the request, catch the yes, route the no, narrow it, carry it up in order, sort the work, say the unsaid yes, and decide when a no is no longer the answer.

Booklet 29 pages · Workbook 20 pages · PDF download

Stay, Grow or Go Participant BookletStay, Grow or Go Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Stay, Grow or Go

For anyone who has asked "should I leave?" for longer than they meant to. Session 1 on the decision: deciding vs drifting, who else is in it, terms for staying, and growing without leaving. Session 2 on the next seat: who sat there before, what happened to people like you, and the calls the interview cannot make.

Booklet 30 pages · Workbook 19 pages · PDF download