Resources

Two tools you can use on your project this week.

The guide and the one-page tool that goes with it. Both are free, both are written for the leader who is accountable for delivery rather than the person running the plan. Enter your email once and they arrive together.

Get both tools

The guide Ā· 16-page PDF

The 48-Hour Project Recovery Playbook

What to do in the first 48 hours after you realize an initiative is in trouble. It opens with the eight questions that establish what is actually true, then works hour by hour through the two days that follow. Written for the accountable leader rather than the delivery team.

  • The eight questions, and what each answer really tells you
  • How to get the real story in hours, not weeks
  • Hour 0 to hour 48, sequenced, with owners
  • Stating the problem in one sentence people can act on

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The tool Ā· one printable page

The Executive Check Scorecard

The same eight questions on a single page, with room to score the answers. Print it, take it into your next project review, and ask them live rather than reading a status report.

  • Tick every weak, vague or unclear answer, then count the ticks
  • What a strong answer sounds like, and the red flag beside it
  • Four or more ticks means you are already in recovery

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On courses and workshops

There is no open cohort right now.

I would rather tell you that plainly than leave a storefront up for something you cannot buy. Group programmes and workshops are being rebuilt around the advisory practice, and the people on my list hear about a new cohort first. There is no waitlist theatre and no countdown.

If your situation is live and consequential, the advisory work is the faster route in any case.

See how the advisory work is structured

If the tools confirm what you suspected

The Executive Project Reality Checkā„¢

A 90-minute working session and a written Executive Control Mapā„¢ within 48 hours. CA$3,500 + applicable tax.

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