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The Empowered Delegation Map is a simple, strategic tool to help you build new muscles for delegating with intention: build team capability, offer career development opportunities for your direct reports, reclaim your leadership capacity, and make time to focus on what matters most.

 

When well-intended leaders lean a little too far into their strengths, quality leadership behaviours become over-strengths. The ‘strength/over-strength paradox’ is a deceptively simple idea: a leadership strength, when overplayed, becomes a liability. This reference tool can help you identify your over-strength, and make choices about where you want to make some adjustments.

 

This article is intended for Coaches, and explores how to create powerful, trust-building discovery conversations that go beyond information gathering to spark true connection and engagement. With real examples, a practical framework, and actionable strategies, this article invites coaches to deepen their presence, experiment intentionally, and reflect on how they show up in these pivotal first conversations.

One of the most powerful ways to manage our emotions is to name them. When you’re feeling a strong or uncomfortable emotion, begin in the centre circle and identify the emotion category. Then move to the second ring, and identify the sub-category. And finally, move to the outer ring, and see if you can find the nuanced name for what you’re feeling.

 

We often move through our lives unconsciously navigating our daily routines. But if you’re trying to expand your awareness and become more intentional about your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, this tool can help you practice 'intentional noticing.' By viewing our experiences from new perspectives, we uncover hidden insights that can transform our mindset and behavior.

 

Influence moves through the channels of trust, clarity, alignment, and shared purpose. If you're trying to drive change, shape culture, or lead cross-functionally, you need more than positional authority; you need strategic influence. The Influence Map helps you clarify who matters most to your success, and evaluate the quality and direction of those relationships, where you're spending too much or too little energy, so you can make behavioural choices that improve trust and impact.

The floor walk is an effective management systems tool that allows for both learning and coaching to take place. The purpose of the floor walk is to go to where the work is being done and explore with purpose, and to gauge how your strategic direction is being interpreted at the front edge of your workforce.

 

A fixed mindset believes that fundamental abilities, like intelligence and talent, are innate and unchangeable. But when we invest in developing a growth mindset, we are more able to view these abilities as malleable and capable of development through effort and practice, leading to higher rates of success in our careers, deeper relationships, and greater satisfaction in our lives. 

 

You don’t need to have your life figured out to start making career progress. Feeling stuck, unsure, or overwhelmed after finishing school is completely normal. Momentum builds confidence, and taking action (even small steps) can help you gain clarity about what’s next. This is about building traction and learning as you go. This plan helps you create structure, take action, and avoid the all-too-common paralysis of perfection.