30 Free Life and Business Tools
We’ve all been seduced by those that magic word “FREE.” It’s right up there with “life hacks” and “ageless” in its power to reel in even sophisticated consumers. Often, of course, we often find “free” comes with strings attached or the freebee is so lame you’d just as soon wished you’d passed.
I hope you’ll put aside all that valuable consumer experience and consider that I have something free to offer and valuable. I’m talking about the couple of dozen free resource downloads that come with my book “The 100: Building Blocks for Business Leadership.”
The free downloads you’ll find associated with my book include templates and checklists. These are free, don’t require sharing your information, and don’t require a book purchase.
These tools are my go-to resources for:
Self Management:
Business Management:
- Productivity tools list
- Strategic planning pyramid for values
- Strategic planning pyramid for principles
- Strategic planning pyramid for brand statement
- Strategic planning guide and agenda
- Work plan (for executing goals)
- Town Hall agenda and guide
- SWOT analysis
- McKinsey 7-S Model
- Partner communication cheat sheet
- Project planning documents
- Huddle agenda
- Strategic planning pyramid (theme)
- The 100 Takeaways calendar
Recruiting
- Employee recruiting guide
- Interviewee tracking funnel
- Interviewee checklist
- Personality assessment firm
- Interview questionnaire
- Offer letter template
Employee Management:
- The spheres of employee engagement and the seven key parts of an engaging job in priority order
- First day checklist
- Check-in questions
- Key Result Areas (KRAs) learning goal example
- KRA template and example
- Employee release and separation agreement
- Performance review form
- KRA performance standard example
- Start/Stop/Continue/Hassles survey
As you work through the takeaways in my book or the associated free resources, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
My thanks to our customers, employees, and partners for an awesome year. I’m going to be offline for a couple of weeks to be with my wife and kiddos. I wish you and yours an enjoyable break and great start to 2018. Below are my top 10 articles or posts for 2017:
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