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Three to begin with. Each is short, written for a manager rather than an HR audience, and built to be used rather than read once — two of them are printed and the third is filled in with a pen.
4 pages · PDF
The 1:1 that isn’t a status update
The most frequent conversation you have as a manager, and almost nobody was taught how to run it.
- →A thirty-minute shape that holds when the week is busy
- →Questions that get a real answer instead of “fine”
- →A five-minute prep card to print, one per person
4 pages · PDF
Why feedback doesn’t land
Not another delivery model. The argument that feedback is information — and information, on its own, changes nothing.
- →Why the same words land from one person and bounce from another
- →Same point, better odds: worked rewrites of common feedback
- →An honest audit of how much feedback you actually receive
3 pages · fill-in
The difficult conversation planner
One page, filled in before you walk in. For the conversation you have been carrying since last Tuesday.
- →Separates what you observed from what you concluded
- →Makes you write down your prediction before the event
- →A five-minute review for afterwards, while it is fresh
Groundworks · Free team assessment
Find out which of these your team actually needs
Each resource fixes one kind of problem. Groundworks shows you which problem you have before you pick one.
24 questions, ten minutes, anonymous. Everyone on the team answers, you see the median across all eight foundations, and nothing is released until at least four people have responded. Free for your own team, permanently.
Start with Groundworks →