Premier Edition Tutorials and Resources

Welcome to The PEOPLE Academy tutorials and support resources specially designed for those who coach and those who manage. These resources have been developed using the knowledge of professional coaches, trainers, and managers with over 60 years of combined experience in people development. These bright bite size pieces of learning are a perfect compliment to your people development initiatives.

Diagnostics  - Framing the Issues

Each element of the PEOPLE model™ is presented to help you understand how to use it more effectively for individual, group or organizational goal setting and problem solving.
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The PEOPLE model™

Task Coaching

A process of engaging an individual, team or department to help identify all the tasks they do, if training is required, and if barriers getting in the way of role effectiveness
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Examples of functions
Examples of tasks
Examples of training needs & barriers
Example of completed task coaching session
Example of a report

Diagnostic Development Wheels

Simple yet powerful diagnostic tools
Attachments:
Leader's Development
Manager's Development
Staff Development
Personal Development
Organizational Development Wheel
This tutorial takes you through the process of using the Life & Career development wheels
Attachments:
The Life Balance Wheel
The Career Development Wheel

 Developing People and Their Potential

Affirmations

Affirmations can be a key tool that can bring about change in a person’s life; what an affirmation is and how to write them effectively

Barriers to Performance  HABE

This tutorial provides powerful examples of barriers to performance, including Habits, Attitudes, Beliefs and Expectations.
Attachments:
H-A-B-E Exercise
The Fairness Model
The Happiness Grid
The Self-talk Cycle


Change - Planned
Guidance for dealing with "planned change"
Attachment:
The Change Cycle

Change - Imposed

Guidance on handling "imposed change".

Attachment:
The Change Cycle

Comfort Zones

In order to move towards our goals we must learn how to experience new comfort zones
The critical skill of feedback along with thinking "feed-forward" (working on solutions not problems)
Attachments:
Feed-forward Exercise

What makes people happy?

Have to Want to

This tutorial brings to a conscious level the choices we make and how we deal with what happens.

Life Purpose

The purpose of life is to live a life filled with purpose.  This tutorial teaches us to respect that we have two lives.  The one we are given and the one we make.
Attachments:
The Station
Life Purpose Visualization

Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping is a powerful tool that provides a key to unlocking ideas.  Mind Mapping encourages creativity and connects one idea with another idea to get a feel for the overall situation or problem.
Attachments:
Example mind map - Uses for mind mapping

Possibilities and Potential

Potential exists in each of us. Use the PIG to help you reach yours.
Attachments:
The PIG exercise
Grid
Squares - Lines
Triangles - Circles
Circles
The process of adapting in the face of adversity – “bouncing back”

Self Esteem

This tutorial looks at the power of building self esteem in both ourselves and others

Self Talk Cycle

The fact is we talk to ourselves and that ‘self-talk’ affects our self-esteem and ultimately our performance

This tool helps identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats when reaching towards goals.
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SWOT Exercise

Walk through how to use a task approach when Coaching

Timelines

A powerful way to plan a step by step journey towards goal achievement

Values

A belief or philosophy that this is meaningful to a person, business or group

Using the power of the mind to create a powerful future

Managing People and Their Environments

After a task coaching session an individual or team needs to organize and prioritize their identified barriers. They can then work to address them to improve performance
This tutorial provides several steps to promote building trust in business.
Attachments:
The Trust Tower
The Fairness Model
This tutorial provides guidance for business planning. No one can lead effectively without a clear vision of where they want to go!
Attachments:
Strategic plan
Business plan
Department or team objectives
Individual objectives
KPI's vision
Timeline
This tutorial provides guidance for communication in business. We take communication for granted. It is actually a very complex process. We each may give the same input (behaviors or words), but we potentially reach different conclusions based on three aspects:
What we mean to say
How we say it
How others interpret what we say
Attachments:
Meeting action notes
Chairing meetings
Team brief
Feedback skills
Skillful praise and criticism

Delegating is an important skill to any business

Developing People
Guidance for creating a culture of learning and getting people to work more effectively together

Evaluating Training
Evaluating training is often treated as an afterthought making the task of evaluating training harder than it needs to be
Attachments:
Learning evaluation form
Department evaluation form
Bridging the gap
This tutorial provides guidance and support around leadership in business.  Including "what is the difference between managers and leaders"?  This tutorial also introduces leading with emotion.
Attachments:
Leadership Styles Survey
Leadership Styles in Use
Leadership Matrix
Power and Authority

Resources for companies looking to manage performance through behavioral competencies
Attachments:
Behavior competencies matrix
Levels of competencies
Examples of teamwork competencies
Examples of encouraged behaviors
Guidance on a performance management system that manages performance by job descriptions
Attachments:
Job description (blank)
Job description (complete)
Business plan and objectives template
Preparation for performance review meeting
Guidance on managing performance by functions
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The Business Leaders' Development Wheel
The Manager's Development Wheel
The Staff Development Wheel
The Personal Development Wheel
Guidance for a performance management system around managing by objectives (appraisals)
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The staff appraisal system (example of intention)
Preparation for appraisal meeting (blank)
Preparation for appraisal meeting (with notes)
Appraisal review form
Structure of an appraisal review
Action checklist
Appraisal preparation form (for small businesses)
Skilled appraisers

A simple model that drives the understanding of an employee's job in comprehensive and measurable terms
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The Performance Contract
Performance Gaps
Performance Coaching is becoming more critical to managing people effectively
Attachments:
Development Coaching Template
Performance Management includes activities to ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on performance of the organization, a department, processes to build a product or service, employees, etc.
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Team Review
Team Member Review
Leadership Styles

Templates and guidance for the preparation of the recruitment documents
Attachments:
Job Description (blank)
Job Description (complete)
Person Specification (blank)
Person Specification (complete)
Application Form
Guidance Notes
The recruitment process starts here, either working from the business plan of expansion or when you are experiencing a vacancy due to an employee leaving.  The first thing to be done is an exit interview.
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Exit Interview Questionnaire

The definition of "interview" is a meeting with a purpose: guidance and structure for the interview process during recruitment and selection.
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Structure for recruitment interview
Information to be given
Interview summary sheet
Guidance and support to handling the introduction and orientation of new employees into new companies.
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Induction/orientation checklist
This tutorial provides guidance in understanding what a good team member means.
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Team Members matrix
Teamwork Behavioral Competencies
Teamwork Definitions
Guidance and support to: Build better communication skills, Develop hidden talents, Ensure consistent quality, Provide greater focus, Produce more effective/productive efforts
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The business plan flow chart
Training and needs analysis plan
Training Structure
Guidance to using the training structure
Personal development wheel
Department/team objectives
Guidance on performing training needs analysis.
Attachments:
Training needs analysis
Staff development wheel











This tutorial provides support with the thinking that it isn't JUST about written guidelines or procedures – it is about the values in the business!
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The cornerstone exercise
Business golden rules exercise
What does great look like?
PEOPLE development wheel
This tutorial provides guidance when determining what a good manager looks like.
Attachments:
Manager's matrix
I expect a manager . .
Manager’s development wheel
Development Manuals

Organizational 21.0MB
Personal 995.0KB
Change Management 754.5KB
Diagnostic Tools 1.9MB

Development Support

Business Development 615.9KB
Personal Development 512.7KB
Organizational Questions 147.1KB
Personal Questions 122.6KB

Resources

Understanding the Framework 939.5KB
Bulletins 75.5KB
Let the Leaders Steer 917.0KB
WakeUp! Workbook 424.0KB