Measure where you stand, and the worksheets that go with the book.

Fifteen tools, all free and ready to use. Eight three-minute reflection tools, an advice on whether Issue-Focused Working fits you, a project-start check for project and program managers, the team safety measurement, and the four measurement instruments a trainer-coach uses to follow the impact of a program. And the worksheets from the workbook, free to download.

Eight reflection tools, free

Each around a recognizable issue, a few minutes per tool, with an immediate result. You leave your e-mail address to receive your result. Four diagnostic tools, a type finder, and a quick scan.

  • What keeps the same issue in place?Diagnostic tool, 3 minutes, four causesStart the tool
  • Which meeting pattern holds your team captive?Type finder, 3 minutes, five patternsStart the tool
  • Why don’t your decisions land?Diagnostic tool, 3 minutes, four causesStart the tool
  • Where in the conversation does it go wrong?Diagnostic tool, 3 minutes, four causesStart the tool
  • What do you really know about what is going on in your teams?Quick scan for executives and managers, 3 minutes, four blind spotsStart the tool
  • At which level does your issue sit?Diagnostic tool, 3 minutes: complaint, real problem, or bottleneckStart the tool
  • Which dial does your team need to turn?Dial finder, 3 minutes, four dials: ease, resistance, norms, motivationStart the tool
  • Where does AI help your team, and where is the risk?AI risk scan, 3 minutes, five blind spotsStart the tool

Considering a start?

  • Does Issue-Focused Working fit us?Pre-phase advice, nine questions in about nine minutes: whether the method fits your team or organization, and in which formStart the tool
  • How safe does your team really feel?Team safety measurement, 2 minutes per person, seven statements, filled in individually with a team code, result at team level, with a measure of sharpness alongsideStart the measurement
  • Is this project ready to start?Project-start check for project and program managers, nine questions, 4 minutes: whether, and at which moment, Issue-Focused Working and Metis add something to a project or programStart the check

Four measurement instruments at four levels

In the book: chapter 15 (table 4), the closing, and appendix A (the Behavior Tally)

What Issue-Focused Working delivers for teams, the book presents as a direction and not as a proven result. Four measurement instruments make that testable per team and organization: baseline, interim, and effect measurement. A certified partner uses them in the program; you can also explore them here yourself. Never measure safety alone; measure sharpness alongside it: does the team reach a decision, is an objection argued, is an action closed out?

  • The Behavior Tally: how safe is it really? Count the behavior.In the session. Seven behaviors that carry interpersonal risk, tallied per phase, with sharpness alongside. Not who, only how often.Start the Behavior Tally
  • The Team Scan: where does the team stand? Safety and sharpness.Across the program. The same seven safety statements as the team safety measurement, with the three sharpness questions alongside, at the start, midway, and at the end. Team picture via your team code.Start the Team Scan
  • The Issue Tracker: what became of the issues?From the Current Shared Picture. Status per issue, actions with an owner, complaints from the Team Pulse that have decreased, and whether the agenda item returns.Start the Issue Tracker
  • The Development Gauge: how does the team learn?Per Team Pitstop. Where the team stands in single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loop learning, and what the trainer-coach then does and refrains from.Start the Development Gauge

Interpretation and follow-up stay with the trainer-coach; a partner may also offer the instruments on their own website. These are first versions: they measure self-report and behavior, without a comparison group. Read the outcome as a direction for the conversation in the team, not as proof and not as an assessment of people, and always at team level.

Find a partner who uses the measurement instruments

Downloads for the book and workbook

The CSP template, the Team Pulse, and the interrelationship diagram go with the book and workbook. Downloading is free: fill in your details and you can download them right away.

  • The Team Pulse and issue list, as a fillable PDF
  • The CSP template (Current Shared Picture), as a fillable PDF
  • The A3 print of the Team Pulse and the interrelationship diagram
  • The same A3 as a digital form, to fill in on a screen or laptop
  • The project-start check: eight questions along the eight steps, to fill in before the project plan exists
  • The Behavior Tally card: the seven behaviors to tally per meeting, with the sharpness questions alongside

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