RESOURCES
Everything in one place.
Assessments, courses, coaching, and tools
— across all three sites.
THE BOOKS
The flagship. 12 chapters, 48 tools.
50 traits, one dimension, all the way down.
Building the Ability to Move People Without Authority
Having the Talk You’ve Been Avoiding
FREE TOOLS
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Every series has a free check. Two minutes, instant results.
How others describe your leadership. Pick five words. Find out what they're actually saying — and where the gap lives between your self-perception and how others experience you.
How your influence actually lands. Seven dimensions of leadership — Self-Management, Executive Presence, Results, Communication, Credibility, Relationships, Visibility. From a free 7-question check to a full coached 360.
Five tools for the skill-specific challenges leaders face every week. Feedback alignment, delegation patterns, replaceability, managing up, and relationship repair. Each tool takes about ten minutes and generates a coaching read calibrated to your situation.
The forces pulling on your leadership. Burnout, perfectionism, people pleasing — the patterns that either ground you or drag you down depending on your altitude. Four diagnostics, each 40 questions deep.
Five scored assessments for where your career is headed. Direction, readiness, positioning, blockers, and career stage alignment. Each tool is 30 questions with a personalized coaching read and a 30-day action plan. Not situational — these measure trajectory.
How you navigate politics. Self-interest, ego, and competition — three dimensions of every organization. Find out where your political instincts are calibrated and what the combination is costing you.
How you move on things. Procrastination and precrastination — two sides of the same timing pattern. Find out which one is running and what it's costing you.
ix dimensions of strategic thinking — the read on how you think, not what you did. Systems and second-order effects, horizon, signal, focus and leverage, outside-in framing, and turning insight into a concrete bet. Start with the free Strategy Check, then the Strategy-o-Meter scores you across all six and hands you three or four moves you'll use in the next decision.
Four tools for the situations that don't wait. A decision you're stuck on, a meeting you're walking into, a conversation you've been avoiding, or a motivation pattern you can't explain. Each tool takes about ten minutes and builds a coaching read for your specific situation.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ASSESSMENT
The Pattern Series
Not every leadership challenge is about influence or presence. Some of it is about wiring — how your brain processes, prioritizes, and responds under pressure. The Pattern Series is built for professionals whose operating system doesn't follow the standard manual.
Pattern Check (free), Pattern Profile, Pattern Mirror, and Pattern Review — all at thepartthatdoesntfit.com.
COURSES