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Partners In Purpose - Guides

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1. The Woodcarver, told in 'A Hidden Wholeness', Parker J. Palmer (2004)

2. 10 questions to make our helping relationships more helpful. Carl Rogers (1967)

3. Helping, Fixing or Serving, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, (extract) Rachel Naomi Remen, (1996)

4. How Can I Help? (extract) - Ram Dass (1985)

5. Psyche and Amor, Transitions (extract) - William Bridges (1979)

6. The Odysseus Myth, Transitions (extract) - William Bridges (1979)

7. The Shoemaker and The Elves, Lewis Hyde (1983) and The Story of The Elves, The Grimm Tales, (1812)

8. The Soul is like a Wild Animal, Parker J Palmer, 'A Hidden Wholeness', (2004)

9. Times of Testing, 'And How Does That make You Feel?' (extract), Joshua Fletcher (2024)

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Keys Coaching Model (CEES™) Resources: 

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• Why Coach? 'Be more Roshi' - lessons from IDEO

• Why Coach? Google's 'Project Oxygen'

• Why Coach? Lead With Questions - Good To Great

• Why Coach? The Buurtzorg Case Study

• Why Coach? Warmth and Curiosity, The Nyquist Effect at Bell Labs

• Why Coach? From Worst to First - David Marquet on leading at sea

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• Keys (CEES™) Coaching Mode

• Learning Capture (Form)

• Review / Triple Loop Learning

• Videos: Clarify 1, Energise 1, Encourage 1, Stretch 1

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Clarify

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• Begin with the end in mind - '7 Habits of Highly Effective People', Steven Covey

• (British Cycling and) Marginal Gains - (extract) from 'Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed

• Boundary Setting - 'Dare to Lead' (extract) - Brene Brown

• How to begin - questions

• Introvert Learning Strengths - 'Quiet' (extract) - Susan Cain

• Life Positions and A Coaching Mindset

• (the power of) Small Wins, from 'Essentialism' (extract) - Greg McKeown

• (the) premortem - 'taming optimism' - 'Thinking Fast and Slow', Daniel Kahnemen (2011)

• What we need for a good ending - 5 hacks to make every conversation count

Energise

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• (the importance of) Belief, 'The Power of Habit' (extract) - Charles Duhigg

• On 'Blurting' - 'Co-Active Coaching', (extract) - Kimsey House et al

• Free at Work, Radical Candor (extract) - Kim Scott

• Morning Pages as Meditation (extract) - Julia Cameron

• Extrovert Learning Strengths 1 - 'Black Box Thinking (extract) - Matthew Syed

• Extrovert Learning Strengths 2 - The Culture Code (extract) - Daniel Coyle

• Lessons From Golf - Bounce (extract) - Matthew Syed

• Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

• Mental Contrasting, 'The Culture Code' (extract) - Daniel Coyle

• Mental Representations, 'Peak' (extract) - Ericsson and Pool

• Motivation and the Power of Small Wins, ‘Essentialism’ (extract) - Greg McKeowen

• ​Recovering A Sense Of Possibility, 'The Artist's Way', (extract) - Julia Cameron

• The 'Three Circles' of Purpose (LC resource)

• (The Power of) Visualisation, from 'Belonging' (extract) - Owen Eastwood

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Encourage

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• Active Listening, 'Never Split The Difference' (extract) - Chris Voss (2016)

• Active Listening 'Check-list'

• Citadels of Excellence (Growth Mindset) - Bounce (exract) 2010

• Curiosity and asking the 'Curious Question' (examples) - Kimsey House et al

• Feelings And Needs As Life In Action - NVC

• Growth Mindset - 'Why Mindset Matters' (extract) - Carol Dweck

• (How to change a) Habit - 'The Power of Habit' (extract) - Charles Duhigg

• The 'Here-and-now' relationship - 'The Gift of Therapy (extract) - Irvin Yallom

• Johari Window - Luft & Harrington Ingram (1955)

• Karpman's Drama Triangle

• Listening To Our Language 7 Habits (extract) Stephey Covey (1989)

• Living Our Values (CTL resource)

• 3 Levels of Listening - Kemsey House et al (extract) - 4th edition, 2018

• Listen Like a Trampoline, The Culture Code (extract) Daniel Coyle

• 'Man's Search For Meaning' (extract) - Victor Frankl

• Mirroring / Active Listening - 'Never Split the Difference' (extract) - Chris Voss (2016)

• Mirror Neurons - 'The Body Keeps the Score' (extract) - Bessel Van der Kolk

• Nancy Kline's 10 Commandments for a Thinking Environment

• Neural Resonance - 'Primal Leadership' (extract) - Daniel Goleman

• (The) Polgar Sisters - 'Bounce' (extract) - Matthew Syed

• The Push-Pull Continuum - 'Thanks for the Feedback' (extract) - Heen and Stone

• Self-Disclosure and Immediacy

• Staying Centred, Radical Candor (extract) - Kim Scott

• Staying Open To Feedback (CTL resource)

• Unconscious Awareness - 'Blink' (extract) - Malcolm Gladwell

• Vertical Development - Mindset, Identity and Mental Models

• What's Been Most Useful? - 'The Coaching Habit' (extract) - Michael Bungay Stanier

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Stretch

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• Accountability and Success Checklist, 'Dare to Lead' (extract) - Brené Brown (2018)

• Blakey & Day's 'Support / Challenge' Matrix (2012)

• Challenging Homeostasis and the adaptability of the brain - Peak - Ericsson and Pool

• Circle of Influence (at work) - '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' (extract) - Steven Covey

• Feedback for Growth™ - Effective Feedback Checklist

• Flow and key ingredients for high performance

• Homeostasis and Change - Peak

• The Immunity Map, Kegan & Lahey (2009)

• (The) Odysseus Myth, Transitions (extract), William Bridges, 1979

• Overcoming Immunity To Change - Immunity Map - Kegan & Lahey

• (The) Pareto Principle - 'The One Thing' (extract) - Gary Keller (2014)

• Plus. Minus. Next - Tiny Experiments - Anne-Laure Le Cunff (2025)

• Powerful Questions - John Whitmore, 'Coaching for Performance', (extract)

• Primal Leadership - The Resonant Leadership Styles - Daniel Golman

• Unwavering Faith And Brutal Fact, Good to Great (extract) - Jim Collins

• What will you do? 'Stretch' questions from John Whitmore, Coaching for Performance

• Yerkes-Dodson Performance Curve

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Coaching & Leading Teams

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Vision and Purpose

1. (Chrystalizing) A Just Cause, 'The Infinite Game', (extract) - Simon Sinek (2019)

2. 'Colouring It In Together' - Eastwood on Vision, Belonging (extract) (2021)

3. (The) Discipline of Teams (summary) - Kazenbach and Smith

4. First Who, then What - Good to Great (extract) - Jim Collins

5. Hedgehog Concept - 'Good to Great' (extract) - Jim Collins

6. Honouring the past, unlocking the future - 'Tuning-in' to Purpose

7. Level 5 Leadership - Jim Collins - Leaders who move 'Good to Great'

8. 'Level-UPP on Purpose'™

9. 'Make Purpose Your Bouncer', 'The Art of Gathering' (extract) - Priya Parker

10. Navigating 'The Split', adapted from 'Start With Why', Simon Sinek (2009)

11. The Golden Circle, Start With Why, Simon Sinek (2009)

12. Tell Your Shared Story to Bring Purpose to LIfe - 'Culture Code' (extract) - Daniel Coyle

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Trust and Psychological Safety

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1. Belonging Cues, 'The Culture Code' (extract) - Daniel Coyle

2. How High Performing Teams Build Trust (summary) - Ron Friedman (HBR, 2024)

3. Project Aristotle: Google's case for Psychological Safety - New York Times (extract)

4. Psychological Safety Questionnaire (online)

5. Psychological Safety Survey - 'The Fearless Organization' (extract) - Amy Edmundson

6. (the) Social Conditions enabling High Performance, from 'Belonging' (extract) - Owen Eastwood

7. Stereotype Threat (Bounce, 2010)

8. Trust Accounts - '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' (extract), Steven Covey

9. Vulnerability Loops, 'The Culture Code' (extract), Daniel Coyle

10. Why Context is King - 'Belonging' (extract) - Geoffrey L. Coen

Creative Controversy

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1. Building a Braintrust - 'Creativity Inc' (extract) - Ed Catmull, 2014

2. Choose Conflicting Goals - 'Unreasonable Hospitality' (extract) - Will Guidara

3. Collective Intelligence and Diverse Teams, 'Rebel Ideas' (extract) - Matthew Syed

4. Creative Tension, 'The Fifth Discipline', (extract) - Peter Senge

5. D.A.R.E and Bystander Intervention Training, Stefanie Johnsons (2020 - extract)

6. Generative Dialogue and 'Thinking Together', Bill Isaacs (1999, extract)

7. 'Heat Maps' and Good Controversy, Priya Parker (2018)

8. Kantor's 4 Players in Dialogue - 'The Art of Dialogue' (extract) - Bill Isaacs

9. P.A.C.E - Communication Under Stress for High Performance - Black Box Thinking (extract)

10. The Radical Candor Matrix, from Kim Scott

11. Style Under Stress, Compete / Avoid / Accommodate / Compromise (Thomas - Killman)

12. The 6 (Six) Types of Working Genius - overview / map to Colour Preference

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Autonomy and Accountability

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1. Change - An 8 Step Process for 'Leading Change' - John P Kotter

2. Coaching Through Transitions - Where to start

3. Lewin's Forcefield Analysis - CTL resource

4. Motivating My Team, Drive (extract) - Daniel Pink

5. (The Power of) Open Source - Daniel Pink, 'Drive' (extract)

6. Project Oxygen: Google's case for coaching - HBR (extract)

7. The Four Disciplines of Execution (4DX), McChesney et al (extract) - 2012

8. The '4DX Grid', McChesney et al (2012)

9. "Without Control People Do Stupid Things" - Fortitude, (extract) Bruce Daisley

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Evaluation and Review

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1. Balanced Scorecard Template

2. (the) benefits of a 'Braintrust', 'Creativity Inc' (extract) - Ed Catmull

3. Cognitive Dissonance and the defence of denial, from ‘Black Box Thinking’, (extract) – Matthew Said

4. Creative Collaboration Health-Check

5. Creative Team Self-Assessment pdf

6. Growth Mindset, Failure and Learning from Mistakes

7. Culture - 10 Questions for Team Discovery

8. High Performance Team Culture - The Culture Code (extract) - Daniel Coyle

9. High Performance Team Culture - adapted from Lencioni

10. High Performance Team Culture - team assessment

11. 'Just' 4 Questions to improve performance and achieve greater impact

12. Leadership Self-Assessment

13. Leadership Styles - 'Primal Leadership' (extract) - Daniel Goleman et al

14. Team High Performance Assessment

15. Tuckman's 4 phase cycle of team development

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Other Resources, Testimonials and Case Studies

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Reasons to get out into nature: 

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• 20 minutes, 5 hours, 3 days (The Comfort Crisis)

• Attention Restoration Theory (The Creativity Factor)

• Choosing Your Own Path (quote - The Creativity Factor)

• Trees, From Wintering, Katherine May (2020)

• Walking For Thinking (The Creativity Factor)

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Other Resources

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• Kublar-Ross's 'Change Curve'

• Natural order, growth and Leadership - 'Let My People Go Surfing' (extract) Yvon Chouinard​

• WithVision

• Coaching Course Review

• Coaching Wheel

• George Bernard-Shaw on Purpose

• The Law of Diffusion of Innovations - Everett Rogers (1962)

• 7 Signs of LIfe™ Coaching Assessment

• Stonewalling (and why men go silent), from 'The 7 Principles...' (extract) - Gottman and Silver

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Testimonials (see also Trustpilot)

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• ​Testimonial (2024) 1:1 Coaching - Netflix Director

• Testimonial (2024) Coach To Lead Programme - Cook Food (Bcorp)

• Testimonial (2024) Team Coaching (Away Day) - Penguin Random House

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Case Studies

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• With Case Study (2018) - Culture Change to Coaching Culture

• With Case Study (2020) - Internal Coaches

• With Case Study (2022) - Leadership Development

• With Team Day Process (2024)