🛠️ Pivot Toolkit: Lead

Lead is about putting the Pivot Method in practice as a manager and coach. You can follow the stages as a guideline for having career conversations, cycling through each of the first three stages—plant, scan, pilot—in as little as ten minutes.

You can also apply the Pivot Method as a way to improve upon internal mobility: what is currently working best? What small experiments can you try within your organization to create a Pivot-friendly culture?

Templates

For each one, go to File → Make a Copy to save a working version for yourself

• Powerful Pivot Questions

• Career Conversation Starter Kit — Email Templates

• Pivot Coaching Best Practices

• Examples of Pilots within Organizations

Related Books

• The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

• How Google Works

• Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

• The Coaching Habit

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

• Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values

• Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.  

• The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All

• Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

• The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

This marks the end of our Pivot Toolkit!

I hope you’ve gotten value out of the lessons—if you haven’t taken action on all of them yet, no worries, and no rush!

You will have lifetime access to this material, and I plan to keep adding to it over time.  The tools, templates, and thought-starters will be there, ready when you are.😃

Make just one bold move, take one next step, and watch as doors fly open and serendipities start to occur. 

As one of the Pivot Coaches, Lisa Lewis, puts it:

“If you want to get hit by the luck truck, you have to stand in the middle of the road.” 

Or put another way by executive coach Cathryn Carruthers:

“You can only see the new doors opening once you start walking down the hallway.”