Compass Book Activity Center

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