Tools for Professionals

Integral Strategy Group offers the following Tools for Professionals. You may request a free copy from the “Contact Us” page.

Ten Ways to Create Strong Accountabilities

“No one is accountable on this team!” This is one of the most common concerns that we hear from leaders and managers. Ten Ways to Create Strong Accountabilities gives you a framework creating and maintaining a culture of accountability on your team and in your organization.

Three Approaches to Strategic Planning

One size does not fit all when it comes to a strategic planning process. A well designed strategic planning process can lead to strategies that support the right action and results. Three Approaches to Strategic Planning provides you with an overview of the traditional approach to strategic planning and two alternatives which can be very effective for many organizations.

Planning Retreats that Add Value

Too often organizations, especially professional practices, do not have annual meetings to address future directions and immediate priorities. A history of frustrating planning retreats that go no where frequently obscures the value of these meetings. Planning Retreats that Add Value provides five rules for making your next planning retreat a launching pad for focused action and improved results.

Anatomy of a Request

The ability to negotiate good requests and commitments stands at the core of leadership and management. Nonetheless many leaders are frustrated by the feeling that they make requests and nothing happens. Anatomy of a Request gives you a straightforward approach to negotiating requests that lead to accountability, action and results.

Tools of the Trade – Hard Conversations

Too often leaders and managers put off or avoid all together the hard conversations needed to address performance problems, resolve mis-communications and mange conflict. Tools of the Trade – Hard Conversations will provide with an essential toolbox of skills to be effective with these most difficult management conversations.

Chairman’s Responsibilities

Poorly run meetings are one of the biggest time wasters in most organizations. Often this problem starts with a meeting chair that lacks the awareness of his/her responsibilities. Chairman’s Responsibilities concisely summarizes the role of the chairman in managing a meeting to assure both participation and effective outcomes.

Agenda Management

Great meetings require great agendas. Unfortunately all too often valuable time is wasted because an agendas are either not prepared or thrown together in a haphazard manner. Agenda Management describes the basic process of agenda creation and defines the four types of agenda topics in an effectively designed meeting.