Leadership
Giving Direction Checklist
Leaders, ensure your team members have the skills they need to meet expectations. Use this checklist when you need to direct (or teach) a team member a new skill or task.
4 Steps to Build an Effective Team
Leading a team is a demanding role! You must know how to engage your team, ensure positive relationships, structure the work to achieve outcomes, and still get your own work done! This framework can help.
Claire’s Leadership Book List
I've curated a collection of my favorite leadership books to inspire your leadership learning journey! Check out this annotated resource that will help you decide what to read next!
TIE Tracker - Video
The Time Impact Energy Tracker will help you see how you really spend your precious time and energy. Watch this video and grab the TIE Tracker handout to clarify what is hindering your effectiveness.
TIE Tracker - Handout
The Time Impact Energy Tracker handout is the tool you need to get to the heart of what is really commanding your time. STOP guessing. Collect real data! Be sure to watch the TIE Tracker video to get started.
Learning Loops - Video
Learning Loops is a powerful tool that can help your team build accountability and commitment while maintaining safety. Don't forget the Learning Loops handout!
Learning Loops - Handout
Use this tool to engage your team, help them build a high level of accountability and get them deeply invested in their work. Be sure to watch the Learning Loops video to find out how.
Trust
Trust Tip 1 - Video
Take full responsibility for the trust problem. Learn to take powerful positive action, and find out why this is essential for building trust.
Trust Tip 2 - Video
Follow through and make things happen. Who knew that keeping your word was so critical to trust!? You will be so glad that you did.Â
Trust Tip 3 - Video
Speak up about the hard stuff. It isn't always easy, but others actually appreciate it! Plus, it's critical if you want to be a leader and a trust-builder.
Trust Tip 4 - Video
Be a persistent, proactive problem solver. Find out what this means, why it is essential for trust building and how to do it, step-by-step.
Trust Tip 5 - Video
Say "No" and set clear boundaries. "Yes" isn't always better. Boundaries help us perform better, clarify expectations and grow trust as a leader.
Trust Tip 6 - Video
Seek feedback. Are you learning and growing? To truly develop trust as leaders, we must seek and be open to receiving feedback. Learn how.
Coaching
Coaching for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Desiree Saddler of the Saddler Consulting Group joins me to discuss how coaching can help us embrace diversity, create equity, and strengthen inclusion.
Coaching & Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
Theresa Phillips, an expert on documentation requirements and performance improvement plans (PIPs) joins me to discuss coaching and performance.
Claire's Coaching Book List
I’ve put together a list of my top 10 favorite coaching books. A short commentary is included for each. I hope you enjoy these books as much as I have. Happy Reading!
Being Your Personal Best
Powerful Positivity Practices
Our daily routines matter! Here's a simple, actionable guide to boosting your energy and positivity throughout the day so you can show up at your best.
Yes Language
A simple change in how we say something can have a transformative impact. This guide will show you how to speak with “Yes” language so you can make a powerful, positive impact on your team and at home.
Managing Your Self-Talk:Â The 5-Day Challenge
Manage your self-talk and create positive change. Over the next five days, take the time to recognize, record, revise and repeat new positive self-talk.Â
How to Have a Strengths-Based Conversation with Your Manager
This roadmap will guide you through the process of preparing for and having a productive conversation with your manager about your strengths.
Reclaim Your Work Joy
Align your work with your strengths so you can fall in love with your work again. Use this guide to help you prepare for a productive and focused discussion with your manager about your strengths.
Meaningful Meetings
Meeting Agenda Templates
Brainstorming, Choice-Making and Planning meeting agenda templates are just a few we've put together to create more effective, productive meetings with your team.
14 Ways to Improve Your Meetings
Make your meetings more meaningful, engaging and interactive by using processes and activities that deliver real results!
Your Questions Answered
Coaching Q&A
We provide answers to client questions I have received on various topics including coaching, leadership and more on our YouTube channel!
Leadership Q&A
Check out my YouTube channel for the answers to client questions that I have received on a variety of topics including coaching, leadership and more!
Managing Performance
Creating Role Clarity
The manager’s guide to providing the clarity your team needs to thrive. Help them get clear on who they serve, how they are measured and what they are expected to produce.
Creating Responsibility Clarity
Your guide for providing the clarity your team needs to thrive. Show them the way forward by getting clear on expectations and connecting to the WHY of their responsibilities.
Unpacking Performance Issues
Use this framework to prepare for your performance conversation and get to the heart of the performance issue and illuminate performance barriers.Â
Guide to Meaningful 1:1 Meetings
The 1:1 meeting is a time to provide connection, support and clarity to your team member. This guide will provide you with a model, guidelines and a template with space for notes that you can use to make the most of your next 1:1 meeting.
Performance Coaching Planner
Use this guide to prepare for your performance conversations and you will be better positioned to provide the support, encouragement, and resources necessary to turn any performance challenge around!
Ready to Ditch Your Performance Appraisal?
Check out this video where we discuss tools for moving your organization from an annual performance appraisal to quarterly coaching.
Newsletters
January 2025
We dive into strategies to turn your New Year's hopes into reality. We talk about how to TRULY manage our work, leverage collaboration, and find greater fulfillment including strategies for refining goals, supporting goal achievement with a proven process, and building a community of support.
December 2024
Prepare yourself and your team for a breakthrough new year with the strategies in this newsletter! We’ll talk specifically about how to use this time of reflection to purposefully navigate transition, so that you can bring big new changes to life for yourself, your team and your organization!
November 2024
Change is inevitable. As leaders (of ourselves, our teams, our families and our communities), the way we respond to change can make a tremendous impact. This month, we focus on cultivating positive rituals that support resilience, openness, and growth.
October 2024
Engaging in healthy conflict is so important! It fosters better, more balanced solutions to the complex problems that face our world. Check out this newsletter for tips that can help you, your team and your organization engage in healthy conflict that contributes to positive change!
September 2024
For leaders and team members alike, understanding trust is the first step toward creating a thriving team and organizational culture. This month, we focus on understanding and building the foundation of all strong relationships and teams: TRUST!
August 2024
In today’s workplace, where remote and hybrid models have become the norm, maintaining a strong organizational culture has never been more critical—or more challenging. This month, we’re diving into what culture truly is, why it matters, and how you can actively “tend” to it within your team.
July 2024
We are all born with a purpose and with special talents that, when applied, can accelerate our success and accentuate feelings of fulfillment and satisfaction - making every day just a little bit better and making work much more enjoyable. Let's put your "genius" to work!
June 2024
This month, we focus on "Being Your Best!" You are your own greatest asset, so staying balanced and connected to yourself is essential. You need to take care of yourself every single day. This newsletter includes tons of tips, resources and recommendations to help you do just that.
May 2024
If you want to create a team, workplace and life that is full of energy and momentum, you must begin by cultivating self-awareness. This month, we delve into knowing ourselves better, seeking to understand our own self-talk, thought patterns, trouble spots, gifts, strengths, values and more!
April 2024
This month is all about change leadership. Leading change is hard because it is ultimately about leading people through periods of uncertainty and discomfort. We unpack the process of change and give you tools and insight about how to be better change leaders.
March 2024
This month, we're talking about managing performance. Managing sub-optimal performance can be one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of any leader's job. Leading the way and coaching our team members does require an investment up front, but will save untold time and frustration in the long run. Â
February 2024
The very first edition of "The Happy High-Energy Workplace Newsletter." Your go-to source for all things leadership, trust, coaching, organizational effectiveness and more! You'll find inspiration, tools, and resources to help you be your best at work, and create a happy, high-energy environment so that everyone thrives!
