Resource library: models & frameworks

A six-stage process for answering the all-important question: "what on earth just happened?"

Discover the five factors that make a goal more motivating to strive for.

Test your ideas with a short experiment before rolling them out more widely.

Prioritise your work by deciding what a new product or process must, should, could and won't have.

Develop a strategy for managing stakeholders informed by their level of power, perspective and engagement.

Turn your SWOT analysis into tangible strategic options, using the TOWS matrix to guide your brainstorm.

Learn to capture your strengths and weaknesses, and identify opportunities and threats, as a foundation to you strategy.

Is your strategy a plan, ploy, pattern, position, or perspective – or maybe all of the above? Understand this key framework to sharpen your strategic skills.

Discover the meaning of Ikigai, how your work sits on the Ikigai chart – and how to pronounce it, of course!

How to get work done – and lead a team – when things are ever-so-slightly confusing (i.e. always)

Are you brave enough for a BHAG? Discover the theory of aiming for the almost-impossible

Brainstorm creative solutions by substituting, combining, adapting, modifying, putting to alternative use, eliminating and reversing.

An classic method to explore issues from six key perspectives.

Learn to set concrete, tangible goals that motivate others, using the SMART framework.

Diamonds are a problem-solvers’ best friend. Use this four-phase framework to analyse challenges deeply and generate creative solutions.

Make time to focus on what’s important, not only what’s urgent, using the Eisenhower Matrix.

Focus your energy on tasks that have the biggest impact for the lowest amount of effort.