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Guides and downloads.
Every guide, tool and check-in we have written, in one place. Each one comes out of work with real leaders and does one job well.
Free to download. Short enough to finish, specific enough to use this week.
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Guides and tools
Read once, then use them on a real situation. Each one takes a pattern that costs leaders time, trust or judgement, and gives you something to do about it.
Leadership Guide
Why Good Managers Behave Badly Under Pressure
A sharp guide to the Intention Gap, behaviour reversal, and what really happens when pressure changes how leaders show up.
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Leadership Tool
Constructive Feedback
A simple feedback tool to help managers surface what is working, where growth is needed, and how leadership impact can deepen.
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Reflection Guide
5 Questions to Start Leading With Intention
A reflective tool for new and aspiring executives who want to lead with more clarity, depth, and self-awareness.
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Leadership Scorecard
Are You Really Ready For the Exec Seat?
A practical scorecard to assess your clarity, presence, and readiness as you step into executive-level leadership.
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Leadership Guide
Better Conversations Guide
A practical framework for navigating the conversations that define your leadership.
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Leadership Guide
Intention Gap Workbook
The companion workbook to the Intention Gap Scorecard. Go deeper into the patterns that shape how you lead under pressure.
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Weekly check-ins
Short, repeatable prompts for the same day every week. They are built to be used badly and often rather than perfectly and once.
Executive Check-In
Leverage Check-In
A weekly executive check-in to sharpen leverage, clear bottlenecks, and focus on direction, signal, and system design.
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Weekly Check-In
Momentum Check-In
A weekly check-in for managers and entrepreneurs to protect focus, manage energy, and keep delivery moving.
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Common questions
This page is the MindsetShift download library. It holds the guides, tools and weekly check-ins you can download as PDFs, grouped into guides and tools and weekly check-ins. It is not a hub for the scorecard, Wayfinder, the podcast or the newsletter, each of which has its own page.
A guide or tool is read once and then applied to a specific situation, such as a difficult conversation, a piece of feedback or a step up into an executive seat. A weekly check-in is a short set of prompts you return to on the same day each week to protect focus, leverage and momentum.
Yes. Every guide, tool and check-in here is free. You give an email address, the PDF is sent to you, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Senior leaders, founders and managers carrying real pressure. They assume you already know what good leadership looks like and that the problem is consistency when the stakes rise, not a lack of models.
Start with Why Good Managers Behave Badly Under Pressure. It sets out the Intention Gap, behaviour reversal and the four hidden forces, which every other download in this library assumes.