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On-demand resources, in-demand skills

An ever growing community of coaches, faciliators and designers and subject experts — designing and delivering learning experiences and resources that make a real impact on your business challenges.

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Digital product studio ustwo founder Matt Miller — aka Mills —  describes his experience of ADHD, what it's meant for his working relationships and the transformative power of neurodiversity.

ADHD, work and leading teams — a first person perspective

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In this bitesize and practical 15 minute eCourse, you'll discover, try and apply practical and proven approaches to goal setting — using our super practical SET framework (say goodbye to SMART goals), flexing it around something real to you right now. The eCourse works independently, or as a useful primer ahead of any YCN goal-setting workshop you may be attending.

eCourse: Get SET with your Goals

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In this fittingly punchy eCourse we'll work through core content covered in our workshops on Time Mastery, Productivity and Prioritisation — pausing with purpose to enable some powerful reflection — and arming you with some proven tools to experiment with right away.

It's perfect for personal development — and also for managers keen to better support their teams.

eCourse: Time Management and Prioritisation

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In this punchy, practical and experimental eCourse, we'll rethink what we mean by delegation; learning purposeful and practical approaches for lightening our own loads while creating clear development moments for others.

eCourse: Mastering Delegation

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Here you'll find core content and related resources that support our Brand called You workshop.

Course Pack: A Brand called You

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Here, Leadership Coach Louise shares some personal insight on the perpetual relevance of Goleman's simple framework for emotionally intelligent leaders. And she offers some actionable thinking too, for those keen to flex the styles in their own relationships.

Daniel Goleman's Six Leadership Styles, explained by Louise Hedges

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Exploring, flexing and noticing Daniel Goleman's Leadership Styles? This bold and illustrated desktop background will help you keep them in mind and in practice

Six Leadership Styles, your desktop background

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Coach Louise Hedges and manager Rebecca Eastwood use a set of YCN visual strengths cards to kick off a purposeful conversation. A handy resource if you plan to do the same.

A coaching conversation around strengths

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For those embarking on experimentation with the coaching style — perhaps as part of a YCN programme — here are some words of encouragement from coach-facilitator Kate Lloyd.

Kate Lloyd's nudge, on the coaching leadership style

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Coach Kate Lloyd and people-manager Catherine Ollington share perspectives on the opportunity for managers to take a coaching approach — and the benefits that abound when they do.

Kate and Catherine on the coaching opportunity

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Coach Kate Lloyd and people-manager Catherine Ollington share perspectives on what makes for powerful questions, and how a bias to curiosity can be one of the most purposeful perspectives when managing teams.

Kate and Catherine on questioning well

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Coach Kate Lloyd and people-manager Catherine Ollington share perspectives on the art of listening — and the immediate impact listening well has on the relationships that matter most.

Kate and Catherine on intentional listening

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Coach Kate Lloyd and people-manager Catherine Ollington share their take on the importance of deliberate pausing, and resisting the temptation to fill silence, when holding space for quality conversations.

Kate and Catherine on pausing, for conversational space

In this short film, Kas from Cubitts shares some reflections on the listening and questioning skills he's just learned in a Peer Coaching workshop, with facilitator Matt Cook. Deepen your own skills in this space, by taking a look at the eCourse that follows the film below.

Kas's reflections on listening and questioning well

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In this short film, Matteo from Cubitts shares some reflections on the coaching skills he's just learned in a Peer Coaching workshop, with facilitator Matt Cook. You can deepen your own skills in this space, by taking a look at the eCourse that follows the film below.

Matteo's coaching reflections

Coach-facilitator Kate Lloyd introduces Daniel Goleman's Six classic Leadership styles, and makes the case for modern leaders deliberately combining them to support different team-members at different times — and keeping that flexibility deliberately in mind.

Making the case for situational flexibility as leaders

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This punchy, practical eCourse sets out to shift perspectives on the concept of a 'difficult conversation' before offering a series of proven tools and techniques to test in conversations of your own.

eCourse: Difficult Conversations

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This purposeful one pager recaps on the BID model, enabling you to keep the feedback you share rooted in observed Behaviours, clear on Impact and rooted in future-facing Dialogue.

Worksheet: Owning Feedback

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What does real empowerment look like, and how do you achieve it? This is the big question that founder, writer and creative consultant Sharmadean Reid MBE sets out to explore in her brand new book New Methods for Women, offering a toolkit of 49 methods for a more purposeful and empowered life. She kindly joined our June '24 Book Club to share some personal perspectives, and advocate for experimentation.

Book Club: New Methods for Women — With Sharmadean Reid MBE

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In this TED Talk organisational psychologist Tasha Erich offers up actionable insights towards greater self-awareness. She describes her findings as derived from studying the behaviour of self-awareness 'unicorns' – and draws links between self-awareness and reduced stress, better decisions and a stronger sense of growth and fulfilment.