Free resources for leaders, managers and teams
Practical planners, checklists, templates and guides you can download, print and use today. Built by Growth Performance to help leaders, managers and teams do their best work.
Meetings & Team Performance
Team Effectiveness Questionnaire
20 original team reflection questions grouped by five model lenses, with guidance for discussion and prioritising actions.
Team Meeting Planner
A structured pre- and post-meeting planner covering purpose, outcomes, agenda builder, ground rules, decision capture, and action tracking.
Team Meeting Facilitation Checklist
A comprehensive checklist for meeting facilitators, covering every phase from 24-hour preparation through to post-meeting follow-up.
Team Retrospective Planner
A structured retrospective template covering wins, challenges, what to do differently, themes, and action commitments, built for honest team reflection.
Weekly Team Check-in Template
A 15-minute weekly check-in format covering energy, wins, blockers, priorities, and recognition, builds connection and surfaces problems early.
Team Decision-Making Guide
A practical guide to the four decision types (Autocratic, Consultative, Consensus, Delegated) with checklists and a decision record log.
Team Norms and Ways of Working Charter
A facilitated template for agreeing how your team communicates, makes decisions, runs meetings, gives feedback, handles disagreement, and manages pressure. The foundation of a high-trust, high-performance team.
Coaching & 1:1 Conversations
Coaching Question Cards for Managers
60 printable coaching questions for managers, with 15 each for Goal, Reality, Options and Will and a when-to-use note for each.
One-to-One Planner
A structured 1:1 planner covering check-in, progress on actions, open space, priorities, development, feedback exchange, and next steps, for both manager and team member.
Development Conversation Guide
A guided question framework for development conversations, from discovery and aspiration through strengths, gaps, options, and commitment to action.
Performance Conversation Planner
A structured planner for performance conversations, covering prep, self-assessment, achievements vs goals, development, goal-setting, wellbeing, and actions.
New Starter 1:1 Plan (30/60/90)
A structured onboarding 1:1 plan for the critical first 90 days, Week 1 checklist, 30/60/90-day conversation guides, and integration milestones.
GROW Coaching Conversation Template
A structured GROW coaching template (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward) with curated coaching questions, commitment capture, and coach self-reflection.
Difficult Conversations Planner
A structured prep sheet for any difficult conversation: performance, conduct, conflict, or change. Covers your intended outcome, the other person's likely perspective, your opening sentence, escalation fallback, and how to close with clarity.
Career Development Conversation Guide
A preparation template for having a focused career conversation with your manager. Covers what you want to achieve, your ideal outcome, their likely perspective, your key messages, development opportunities to raise, obstacles to address, and the commitments you want to walk away with.
Leadership & Influence
Manager Capability Framework
A one-page 3C framework for manager capability: five observable behaviours each for Connection, Clarity and Capability.
New Manager Training Topics Checklist
Twelve practical first-time manager training topics grouped under Connection, Clarity and Capability, with space to prioritise.
First 90 Days: New Manager Checklist
A week-by-week and month-by-month checklist for managers starting a new role or inheriting a new team. Covers relationship-building, understanding the team, establishing credibility, and shaping direction over three months.
Stakeholder Mapping and Influence Planner
Map your real stakeholders, assess each relationship, and plan your influence approach. Covers support and influence levels, relationship quality, what each stakeholder values most, and your next action with each.
Change Communication Planner
A one-page template for planning any change communication clearly. Covers what's changing, what isn't, why it matters, the team impact, what you know, what you don't, and when you'll next update. Grounded in leading change management frameworks.
Prioritisation & Productivity
Eisenhower Priority Matrix
The classic urgent/important decision framework. Sort your tasks across four quadrants: Do First, Schedule, Delegate, and Eliminate. Immediately see which work deserves your attention and which is stealing it.
Action Priority Matrix
Map your tasks by effort versus impact to find your Quick Wins, plan your Major Projects, fill gaps with low-effort tasks, and eliminate the high-effort, low-value work that drains capacity without delivering results.
MoSCoW Analysis Template
A structured prioritisation tool for any project, initiative, or decision. Categorise requirements and tasks into Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, and Won't Have, with space to capture rationale and decision criteria.
Weekly Priority Planner
A priority-first weekly planner. Set your top three non-negotiables before the week starts, plan each day around what matters rather than what arrives, protect focus time, and end the week with a structured reflection on what moved and what didn't.
RICE Scoring Template
Apply the RICE prioritisation framework (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) to rank competing initiatives objectively. Remove gut-feel from priority decisions and build a defensible, data-informed backlog or project list.
Project Priority Scorecard
Score and rank up to eight competing projects or initiatives across five criteria: strategic value, resource availability, time sensitivity, risk level, and implementation effort. Built for teams and leaders who need to make defensible resourcing decisions.
4C Action Planner
A structured monthly planning template for leaders building practice across all four 4C pillars. Map your monthly actions for Connection, Clarity, Capability, and Conscience, reflect on progress, and plan your next steps. Browser-editable before printing.
Career Development
Career Change Action Planner
A comprehensive editable planner for structuring a career transition. Covers where you are now, where you want to go, a skills gap analysis, a 90-day action timeline, a decision checkpoint, and your key blockers. Type your own context directly, then print a personalised career change plan.
Job Search Strategy Planner
A structured job search planner covering your target role and level, a target companies tracker, a networking action plan, a weekly job search schedule, and an applications log. Moves you from reactive scrolling to a deliberate, trackable search strategy.
Interview Preparation Planner
A complete interview prep template covering company and role research, four STAR story templates with prompts, your strongest questions to ask, a logistics checklist, and a post-interview reflection section. Editable and printable — arrive at every interview properly prepared.
Personal Brand Builder
A step-by-step template for building a clear, authentic personal brand. Covers your top strengths, your unique angle, your target audience, a personal brand statement formula, a LinkedIn headline and About section draft, and a two-minute elevator pitch template. For anyone wanting to be known for the right things.
Life and Career Design Canvas
A big-picture life design tool drawing on Stanford's Life Design Lab methodology. Covers six life areas (work, relationships, health, recreation, purpose, money), current satisfaction ratings, what's working, what needs to change, a one-year vision, your top values, and three experiments to run. The starting point for anyone redesigning their life.
AI & Orchestration
Human-AI Workflow Designer
Map any workflow step by step and assign clear human or AI roles to each part. Identify decision rights, flag risk points, and generate a documented workflow that your team can understand and trust.
Agentic AI Blueprint Planner
Map your AI agents to business outcomes, define decision-making scope, establish governance boundaries, and prevent agent sprawl. A structured planning template for leaders designing human-autonomous collaboration.
First 100 Days: AI Leadership Action Planner
A structured 100-day planning template for leaders transforming the human side of AI adoption. Covers presence audit, decision visibility, learning sprints, agentic AI blueprint, and stewardship commitment — with 30/60/100-day milestones.
Orchestration Capability Development Planner
A structured planner for translating your orchestration capabilities assessment results into a 90-day development plan with domain ratings, priority actions, accountability commitments, and milestone tracking.
Orchestration Capabilities Framework: Reference Card
A concise one-page reference card covering all six orchestration capability domains with key questions, capability bands, and research foundations. Use alongside the assessment for quick-reference guidance.
The Augmented Leader Suite
Leading AI Adoption Reference Card
A one-page reference for the manager's role in leading AI adoption: the six adoption leadership behaviours, the adoption readiness spectrum, making experimentation safe, responsible use norms, and embedding adoption over the first 90 days.
Leading AI Adoption Development Planner
An editable development planner for managers leading AI adoption. Self-rate across five dimensions, capture strengths and development needs, set priority actions, and build a 90-day plan with support and accountability.
Leading Augmented Teams Reference Card
A one-page reference for leading a human-AI team day to day: the task allocation frame, redesigning the workflow, orchestration and verification, decision rights and accountability, and protecting the human experience.
Leading Augmented Teams Development Planner
An editable development planner for leaders of augmented teams. Self-rate across five dimensions, capture strengths and development needs, set priority actions, and build a 90-day plan with support and accountability.
Leading the AI-Shaped Organisation Reference Card
A one-page reference for stewarding the structural consequences of AI: the six transformation leadership behaviours, transition conversation variants, a responsible AI governance frame, and a culture signals audit.
Leading the AI-Shaped Organisation Development Planner
An editable development planner for leaders stewarding AI-driven transformation. Self-rate across five dimensions, capture strengths and development needs, set priority actions, and build a 90-day plan with support and accountability.
The Five Performance Moments
Five Performance Moments — Model Overview
A one-page reference card covering all five performance moments (Prepare, Practise, Perform, Recover, Evolve), with best-fit support choices, poor-fit warnings, and a quick solution selector rule. Use it to diagnose performance challenges and choose the right intervention.
Performance Moment Diagnostic Worksheet
A scoping tool for identifying the dominant performance moment before commissioning any solution. Covers challenge definition, moment identification, response planning, and an action summary. Browser-editable before printing.
Support Selector Matrix
A practical matrix matching common performance issues to the most suitable intervention across all five moments. Includes eight worked examples covering compliance, methodology adoption, management quality, and system change. Use it to avoid defaulting to a course.
Performance Support Design Brief
A structured template for designing job aids, prompts, templates, and decision tools for the Perform and Recover moments. Covers problem definition, user context, design decisions, quality checks, and sign-off. Browser-editable before printing.
Manager Conversation Guide — Five Performance Moments
A practical guide helping managers identify what kind of support a team member needs right now. Includes five coaching prompts mapped to each moment, a simple coaching flow, and a conversation notes section. Browser-editable before printing.
Implementation Checklist — Five Performance Moments
A comprehensive checklist for embedding Five Performance Moments into a learning or performance ecosystem. Covers positioning, scoping, design, resources, managers, workflow, governance, measurement, and review. Browser-editable before printing.