Welcome to the Compass Book Activity Center!

Here you can download Activity Center worksheets and exercises that align with the book’s leadership competencies.

Balance

• Balance for You, Too
• Balancing Challenge
• Balancing Goals for Life

Boundary Spanning

• A Plan to Span
• Powerful Questions

Business and Professional Knowledge

• Help Managers Excel
• To Achieve Results

Business Development

• Organizational Drivers
• Can You Identify a New Idea?

Champion Change

• Communicate Change
• Roles for Everyone

Change Acceptance

• You and Change
• Your View of Change

Change Implementation

• Force Field Analysis
• Four Questions of Change
• Read Two Change Classics

Coach and Develop Others

• One-on-One Coaching
• 4Cs for Developing Others
• Reflect on Your Talent Conversations
• Six Questions

Communication

• It’s Your Reputation
• Listen to Everyone, Even When . . .

Compassion and Sensitivity

• Self-Coaching for Compassion and Sensitivity
• Understanding Defining Moments

Conflict Resolution

• Resolve a Conflict
• What Influences Conflict

Confronting Problem Employees

• Confronting an Employee Work Plan
• Deal Directly

Courage

• Dare to Be Courageous
• The Marriage of Courage and Humility

Creativity

• Brainstorming
• Yes, It’s a Skill

Credibility and Integrity

• Do They Trust Me?
• Three Quick Ideas to Build Credibility

Decision Making

• Balanced Decisions 
• Teach and Learn

Delegating

• Delegation Evaluation
• Pull Decisions Down

Difference, Diversity, Inclusion

• Biases and Prejudices
• Hunt for Exclusionary Practices
• What Comes to Mind?

Engagement

• I Felt Valued
• Post an Idea

Executive Image

• Boiling Hot Idea!
• Build an Image
• Your Personal Values

External Partnership Management

• Customer Loyalty
• Customer Service 101
• History’s Successes and Failures

Feedback

• Feedback Checklist
• Recognition – Pass It On
• Try Feedforward

Flexibility

• Exploring Flexibility
• How Flexible Are You?
• Practice Curiosity

Global Perspective

• Be a Global Learner
• Capture, Clarify, Confirm
• Map Your Social Identity

Global Team Management

• Blending Teams
• Plan Your Trip

Influence

• Influence Up
• Planning to Influence

Initiative

• Leaders Go First
• No Excuses

Innovation

• Championing Innovation
• Is It Important to Your Company?

Interpersonal Savvy

• Choose to Be Interpersonally Savvy
• How They Perceive You

Leading the Culture

• Values-Culture-Vision
• Leader as Culture Ambassador

Leading with Purpose

• A Job for an Authentic Leader 
• Rules for Leading with Purpose

Learning Agility

• Create a Mind Map
• Find a Mentor

Negotiating

• Negotiating Tools and Tactics
• Prepare

Organizational Savvy

• How Savvy Are You?
• Map Your Network
• Mastering Politics

Problem Solving

• 25-Minute Problem-Solving Team
• Become a Brainstormer
• Learn About Problem Solving

Relationship Management

• Check Yourself
• Partner with Me

Resilience

• An Assessment
• Mistakes Are a Gift
• Three Actions to Resilience

Resourcefulness

• Looking for the Value
• The Many Faces of Resourcefulness

Risk Taking

• Manage Risk

Self-Awareness

• Johari Window
• Your Social Identity

Self-Development

• Brand You
• Learn to Learn

Strategic Alignment

• Evaluate Your Strategic-Thinking Skills
• Interview an Executive
• Strategic Decision Review

Strategic Planning and Implementation

• Develop Strategic-Plan Awareness
• Dust Off Your Strategy
• How’s Your Execution?

Systems Thinking

• Input-Output
• Thinking About Systems

Talent Recruitment and Retention

• Inspire Commitment
• Investing in Retention
• Select for Leadership

Team Leadership

• A Winning Team
• Rate Your Leadership
• Teamwork Is Fun, Too

Time Management

• Meeting Management Coaching
• Time Management Tips

Tolerating Ambiguity

• A Recipe to Manage Ambiguity
• Got a Problem?

Trust

• 4 Ways to Trust
• The Key to Good Communication

Urgency

• A Checklist for Success
• Direction, Alignment, Commitment

Vision

• Develop Your Personal Vision Statement
• Engage Employees with the Vision
• Understand and Promote Your Organization’s Vision

Working Through Others

• Do It Right
• Rate Yourself