This list of resources is constructed to further your on-going learning and provide you with methods, approaches, tools and techniques that will help you to be more effective. There are also papers and articles that describe models, frameworks, and principles that underpin these methods. Most of these are free and downloadable immediately. Others are available for purchase. Simply scroll down to the headings below and follow the links

 

Events             –             Resources to Buy            –             Resources to Download

• Workshop: developing your presence & leadership with Michael Grinder
• Workshop: developing your presence & leadership with Michael Grinder
• Lead and Manage Change Masterclass, May 2-3, Adelaide
• Leading and managing change: embracing the unthinkable and unforeseen
• Leading teams to be their best
• Opportunities for facilitation training with Bob Dick
• Two special training opportunities
• Keep in Touch
• Foundations of facilitation: Brisbane, May 21 – 22, 2015
• Advanced Clinical Leadership Skills
• High performance leadership skills
• Book a Masterclass – Disruptive innovation: how to make it happen

Change

• Gods in a time of Corona
• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• Where to from here?
• Reframing
• Podcasts for uncertain times: May 2020
• Snake oil and culture change
• 5 Podcasts for uncertain times
• Responding to catastrophe
• Integrating cultures after a merger
• Sustainable Change: a whole of systems view
• Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
• When institutions go bad
• Successful change: driven by clear outcomes
• Inclusive leadership: ways to achieve diversity and inclusion
• Antifragility
• Mission impossible – engineered culture change
• Lead and Manage Change Masterclass, May 2-3, Adelaide
• Who should I involve in change?
• Leading and managing change: embracing the unthinkable and unforeseen
• Freeing the organization for change
• Order in Chaos
• The Nature of Change
• Six circle model
• Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
• Transition: the blindspot of change
• Book a Masterclass – Disruptive innovation: how to make it happen
• Change in different cultures
• Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
• When Leadership for Change Works!
• Life Cycles of Organizations: Implications for Leaders
• How values can harm an organization
• Cycles and Levels of Organizational Life
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: principles, skills & practices that work
• Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations
• Change and Transition

Coaching

• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
• Feedback: the how
• The Power of Coaching
• Transition: the blindspot of change
• Leadership Master Class: A special conversation with Tim Dalmau & Steve Zuieback
• Handling the grey
• The seven conversations of leadership
• Tell, sell, test, consult, co-create?
• Change and Transition

Communication skills

• Feedback: the how
• The leader as a source of contagious destruction
• Team development: a guide
• Receiving feedback
• Creating psychological safety in teams
• Tips for improving contributions in meetings
• Breathing 101
• Go visual! – the most important tool to improve communication
• Leading teams to be their best
• The Key to Aligned Action
• Interpreting your observations
• First Impressions
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
• Leadership Master Class: A special conversation with Tim Dalmau & Steve Zuieback
• Engagement versus Communication
• Communication patterns predict for high performance in teams
• To be a Cat or to be a Dog?
• Nailing It: Commitment to follow through
• From clinician to leader
• Questions are more powerful than statements
• Trust: cause, effect or process?
• Not stepping up – pitfalls in making assumptions
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• Handling the grey
• An end to hallucinating.
• Better conversations with your team – Step 2
• Talk, Inc.
• Change the structure and you change the experience
• Better conversations with your team
• Facilitating quality conversations with leadership teams
• The case for powerful conversations
• The importance of providing context and opportunity to interact

Complexity

• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• Responding to catastrophe
• Thinking and leading in complexity, crisis and catastrophe
• Sustainable Change: a whole of systems view
• Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
• Order in Chaos
• Thinking the Unthinkable
• Leading complex organizations
• Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
• Leadership Master Class: A special conversation with Tim Dalmau & Steve Zuieback
• Checklist Manifesto: getting it right!
• Nelson Mandela
• Embracing sustainability
• Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations

Consulting

• A skeptics recommendation for a good read on leadership
• Change in different cultures
• Getting real value from consultants
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• Change and Transition

Conversations

• Feedback: the how
• Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
• Creating psychological safety in teams
• Breathing 101
• Go visual! – the most important tool to improve communication
• Freeing the organization for change
• The Key to Aligned Action
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• Engagement versus Communication
• When Leadership for Change Works!
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• How our beliefs can get in the way of achieving results
• Not stepping up – pitfalls in making assumptions
• Better conversations with your team – Part 4
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• Handling the grey
• An end to hallucinating.
• Better conversations with your team – Step 2
• Talk, Inc.
• Change the structure and you change the experience
• Better conversations with your team
• Facilitating quality conversations with leadership teams
• The seven conversations of leadership
• The case for powerful conversations
• Organizations as conversation spaces
• The importance of providing context and opportunity to interact

Difficult Problems

• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• Where to from here?
• Reframing
• Responding to catastrophe
• The leader as a source of contagious destruction
• Breathing 101
• Go visual! – the most important tool to improve communication
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• Checklist Manifesto: getting it right!
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• A stake in the ground
• Embracing sustainability

Groups and teams

• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Responding to catastrophe
• Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
• Intangibles matter when designing organizations
• The sphinx
• Well-formed groups
• Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
• Nine Dimensions of Team Development
• Team development: a guide
• Lessons from geese
• Tim Dalmau and Steve Zuieback launch their new e-book!
• Leading teams to be their best
• The Key to Aligned Action
• Two special training opportunities
• Foundations of facilitation: Brisbane, May 21 – 22, 2015
• First Impressions
• Who is your first team?
• Confusing thinking with observing
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Communication patterns predict for high performance in teams
• Trust: cause, effect or process?
• Better conversations with your team – Part 4
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• Better conversations with your team – Step 2
• Better conversations with your team
• Facilitating quality conversations with leadership teams
• History Trip: A process guide

Leadership

• Podcasts for ideas & insights
• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• A great leader (Reprise)
• Snake oil and culture change
• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Responding to catastrophe
• Integrating cultures after a merger
• Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
• Excellent Leadership: above the Dunbar number
• Candice: a high performing leader
• Assessing team development needs – Handbook #3
• Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
• The leader as a source of contagious destruction
• When institutions go bad
• Receiving feedback
• Hades organizations: joyless and in the throes of dying?
• New book on the art and science of leading well
• Lessons from geese
• Strategic planning: Evolution of a process
• Creating psychological safety in teams
• Bold Herakles: An heroic organizational archetype
• Athena organizations built on consensus and involvement
• Vive la difference: when creativity and leadership flourishes in the mining industry
• The right frame – person or position?
• Successful change: driven by clear outcomes
• Strong relationships fundamental to Eros organizations
• Inclusive leadership: ways to achieve diversity and inclusion
• Promethean organizations – where only science and technology can deliver a better world
• Who should I involve in change?
• Ares organizations – the positives and negatives
• Leading and managing change: embracing the unthinkable and unforeseen
• Freeing the organization for change
• Order in Chaos
• A great leader
• Thinking the Unthinkable
• Leading teams to be their best
• A skeptics recommendation for a good read on leadership
• Hermes: the networked organization
• Grit: #1 predictor of performance
• Leading complex organizations
• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Two special training opportunities
• Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
• Foundations of facilitation: Brisbane, May 21 – 22, 2015
• Advanced Clinical Leadership Skills
• High performance leadership skills
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• Transition: the blindspot of change
• Who is your first team?
• Confusing thinking with observing
• Hera organizations: loyalty and stability
• Action Learning Workshop: Brisbane, October 2014
• Change in different cultures
• Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
• Zeus Organizations: Centralized Power
• Leadership Master Class: A special conversation with Tim Dalmau & Steve Zuieback
• Values In Action: when good intentions of leaders are not enough
• To Play the Fool: the role of leaders
• The Unconscious Organization
• “7 Habits…” stands the test of time.
• When Leadership for Change Works!
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Life Cycles of Organizations: Implications for Leaders
• How values can harm an organization
• Cycles and Levels of Organizational Life
• Michael Grinder Leadership Workshop
• Becoming a more robust leader
• From clinician to leader
• If we dare! The possibilities of sustainable leadership
• Nelson Mandela
• Trust: cause, effect or process?
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• A stake in the ground
• When losing is winning
• Handling the grey
• Embracing sustainability
• An end to hallucinating.
• Talk, Inc.
• Facilitating quality conversations with leadership teams
• The seven conversations of leadership
• Will it make the boat go faster
• NZ invests as a nation in leadership
• Tell, sell, test, consult, co-create?
• AIESEC Presentation on Leadership Ethics and Sustainabiity
• Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: principles, skills & practices that work
• Ethical Leadership
• Ethical Leadership
• The importance of providing context and opportunity to interact
• 10 Traits Every Leader Should Have
• Change and Transition
• Four Free Ways to Motivate your Staff
• The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Leaders!

Meetings

• The sphinx
• Well-formed groups
• Tips for improving contributions in meetings
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• To be a Cat or to be a Dog?
• Nailing It: Commitment to follow through
• Better conversations with your team – Part 4
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• Better conversations with your team – Step 2
• Better conversations with your team

Middle ground

• Embracing sustainability

Performance management

• The vexed question of performance appraisals
• Feedback: the how
• Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
• Receiving feedback
• The key – knowing what outcomes you want
• Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Communication patterns predict for high performance in teams
• Checklist Manifesto: getting it right!
• Handling the grey
• Tell, sell, test, consult, co-create?

Process and facilitation

• Tim Dalmau and Steve Zuieback launch their new e-book!
• Opportunities for facilitation training with Bob Dick
• How our beliefs can get in the way of achieving results
• Questions are more powerful than statements
• Change the structure and you change the experience
• Better conversations with your team
• Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: principles, skills & practices that work
• History Trip: A process guide

Relationships

• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Feedback: the how
• Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
• Creating psychological safety in teams
• The right frame – person or position?
• Leading complex organizations
• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Behavior change – lessons from the health sector for all leaders
• When Leadership for Change Works!
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Getting real value from consultants
• Questions are more powerful than statements
• Trust: cause, effect or process?
• Not stepping up – pitfalls in making assumptions
• Better conversations with your team – Part 4
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• An end to hallucinating.
• Talk, Inc.
• The seven conversations of leadership
• The case for powerful conversations
• The importance of providing context and opportunity to interact

Safety

• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Safety Leadership Master Class
• Safety: Lessons from the field

Strategy

• Who is your first team?
• Cycles and Levels of Organizational Life
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• Will it make the boat go faster
• Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations

Sustainability

• Sustainable Change: a whole of systems view
• Life Cycles of Organizations: Implications for Leaders
• From clinician to leader
• If we dare! The possibilities of sustainable leadership
• A stake in the ground
• Embracing sustainability
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• AIESEC Presentation on Leadership Ethics and Sustainabiity

Systems viewpoints

• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• Responding to catastrophe
• Thinking and leading in complexity, crisis and catastrophe
• Intangibles matter when designing organizations
• Bold Herakles: An heroic organizational archetype
• Successful change: driven by clear outcomes
• Leading complex organizations
• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
• Transition: the blindspot of change
• Leadership Master Class: A special conversation with Tim Dalmau & Steve Zuieback
• Checklist Manifesto: getting it right!
• If we dare! The possibilities of sustainable leadership
• Organizations as conversation spaces
• AIESEC Presentation on Leadership Ethics and Sustainabiity
• Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: principles, skills & practices that work
• Ethical Leadership

Teaming

• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Responding to catastrophe
• Assessing team development needs – Handbook #3
• Review: One Mission: How leaders build a team of teams
• Team development: a guide
• Lessons from geese
• Creating psychological safety in teams
• Tips for improving contributions in meetings
• Leading teams to be their best
• Who is your first team?
• Confusing thinking with observing
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Communication patterns predict for high performance in teams
• Checklist Manifesto: getting it right!
• Better conversations with your team – Part 4
• Better conversations with your teams – Part 3
• Better conversations with your team – Step 2
• Better conversations with your team
• Facilitating quality conversations with leadership teams
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• Will it make the boat go faster

Values

• Gods in organization cultures
• A great leader (Reprise)
• Snake oil and culture change
• Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
• Feedback: the how
• Excellent Leadership: above the Dunbar number
• When institutions go bad
• Hades organizations: joyless and in the throes of dying?
• Lessons from geese
• Bold Herakles: An heroic organizational archetype
• Athena organizations built on consensus and involvement
• Strong relationships fundamental to Eros organizations
• Inclusive leadership: ways to achieve diversity and inclusion
• Promethean organizations – where only science and technology can deliver a better world
• Ares organizations – the positives and negatives
• Six circle model
• Hermes: the networked organization
• Demeter: the mothering organization
• Grit: #1 predictor of performance
• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Survive or thrive: Strategies for chaotic, turbulent and disruptive times
• Spontaneity characterizes Dionysian organizations
• Aphrodite organizations – elegant processes and solutions
• Apollo organizations: worship at the altar of rationality
• Hera organizations: loyalty and stability
• Change in different cultures
• Zeus Organizations: Centralized Power
• Values In Action: when good intentions of leaders are not enough
• “7 Habits…” stands the test of time.
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• How values can harm an organization
• How our beliefs can get in the way of achieving results
• Nelson Mandela
• Not stepping up – pitfalls in making assumptions
• Stepping up to the plate – tackling the un-discussables
• A stake in the ground
• When losing is winning
• Handling the grey
• The seven conversations of leadership
• Will it make the boat go faster
• The case for powerful conversations
• Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations
• Ethical Leadership
• Ethical Leadership

Ways of being

• Podcasts for ideas & insights
• Gods in organization cultures
• Gods in a time of Corona
• Emerge – Emergency – Emergence
• Reframing
• A great leader (Reprise)
• You don’t need to be an expert: practical ways to help employees with mental health issues
• Motivation: unlocking discretionary effort
• Becoming The Best You: the objective science and subjective techniques of highly functional people
• The sphinx
• The leader as a source of contagious destruction
• Going beyond information exchange: good questioning skills
• When institutions go bad
• Hades organizations: joyless and in the throes of dying?
• Lessons from geese
• Bold Herakles: An heroic organizational archetype
• Athena organizations built on consensus and involvement
• The right frame – person or position?
• Hephaistos organizations: value hard work and craftsmanship
• Strong relationships fundamental to Eros organizations
• Promethean organizations – where only science and technology can deliver a better world
• Ares organizations – the positives and negatives
• A skeptics recommendation for a good read on leadership
• Hermes: the networked organization
• Grit: #1 predictor of performance
• A celebration of Dick Knowles’ eight decades
• Who is your first team?
• The Unconscious Organization
• “7 Habits…” stands the test of time.
• Performance: The Holy Grail of Leadership
• Becoming a more robust leader
• Trust: cause, effect or process?
• When losing is winning
• Embracing sustainability
• The seven conversations of leadership
• Safety: Lessons from the field
• Will it make the boat go faster
• NZ invests as a nation in leadership
• The case for powerful conversations
• AIESEC Presentation on Leadership Ethics and Sustainabiity
• Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations
• Change and Transition