Program Resources
Purpose
A Pocket Guide to Purpose
A quick and simple way to access and advance your purpose.
Who has time for lengthy career guides and dense self-help manuals? “A Pocket Guide to Purpose” condenses years of wisdom into bite-sized, actionable steps.
Discover your unique skills, ignite your passions, and chart a future that brings you joy. Forget the destination; embrace the journey and unlock your full potential, one empowering step at a time.
Whether you’re a CEO or a student, life’s big questions can feel overwhelming. This handy guide, packed with vivid illustrations and simple prompts, offers a refreshingly accessible path to personal transformation.
A Pocket Guide to Purpose for Leaders
A Powerful Approach to Create and Unleash Greater Innovation, Inclusion and Engagement
Struggling to ignite your team’s passion and crush those stagnant results? This is your 14-minute rocket fuel to success, with actionable strategies to weave purpose into every fiber of your organization.
Discover your own leadership purpose, unite your team under a shared mission, and unlock hidden potential within each individual. Learn to identify aspirations, craft a purpose-driven culture, and see your team flourish with impactful results.
Packed with tools, real-world examples, and clear visuals, this guide is your shortcut to a thriving organization. Invest 14 minutes and watch your team soar.
Quick & Dirties
These valuable lessons are presented in “bite-sized,” PDF format. After you have learned the core concepts, these are great concept refreshers.
The Leader’s Journey
Similar to Joseph Cambell’s hero’s journey, every leader must acquire self knowledge, team dynamic understanding, and business acumen. It is necessary to understand what strategic imperatives are critical to pay attention to, when to pay attention, and how.
These strategic imperatives include reading current trends both externally and internally. While external monitoring/sensing is critical, this work focuses on the leader’s internal journey. Leading ourselves, the team we lead, and the internal environment including stakeholder leadership and management.
Accountability
Headlight Strategy
PACT
process enables you to consider all of your options quickly, allowing you to take intentional action.
Calendar Hammer
Leadership Paradox
Paradox Dialogue
Change Transition
Don’t mistake change for transition! Change is the external event (moving cities, getting married), while transition is the messy internal journey we face adapting to those changes. Understanding this difference unlocks hidden resistance and empowers you to manage personal and team transitions effectively, turning change into success.
Letting Go
Problem Statements
Master Meetings
Purpose
Triangle Disempowerment
Moment Meditation
Stakeholder Mastery
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Captain’s Log & Strategic Gems
Unleashing Peak Performance: Why Team Purpose is the Stealth Focus of High-Functioning C-Suites
A well-defined purpose statement isn’t about generic financial objectives. It’s about the tangible impact your team aspires to make.
Turn Time-Wasting Meetings into Energy Generating Powerhouses
It’s easy to fall into a trap of unproductive meetings. This resource provides some best practices to turn your meetings into productive powerhouses.
C-Suite Time Management: The Leader’s Find Time Process™
The Leader’s Find Time Process™ goes beyond simply creating a schedule; it aligns your calendar with your priorities and energy levels.
Additional Reading
Brown, Brené. Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.
Burnett, Bill, & Evans, Dave. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. Knopf, 2016.
Chamine, Shirzad. Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS. Austin: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012.
Craig, N., George, B., & Snook, S. The Discover Your True North Field Book. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House, 2006.
Frankl, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning. NY: Pocket Books, 1977.
George, Bill. True North.New Jersey: Wiley 2015.
George, B. with Sims, P. Discover Your True North. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Hendriks, Gay. The Big Leap. HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Hurst, Aaron. The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire For Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World. Elevate, 2014.
Ibarra, Herminia. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Leider, Richard. Calling Cards: Uncover Your Calling (deck of cards), Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.
Leider, Richard. Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better. Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010.
Luna, Elle. The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion. Workman Publishing, 2015.
Passion Profiler: www.thepurposelink.com/passion-profiler-tool.
Pink, Daniel. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Hardcover, 2009.
Seligman, Martin. Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being and How to Achieve Them. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011.
Sinek, Simon. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Penguin, 2009.
Voss, Christopher. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.