Leadership & Teams

Evidence-based leadership & teams practices.

32 concepts in this area — each broken into concrete practices with the real mechanism, an honest read on the evidence, and how to practice it with IX Coach.

• Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical — How do you lead people through change and complex problems that have no clear solution?
• Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor — What does "caring personally" actually mean in Kim Scott’s Radical Candor, and how do you do it?
• Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter — How do you hold someone accountable without damaging the relationship?
• Delegation Levels, Made Practical — How do you delegate effectively without micromanaging or abdicating?
• Effective Delegation, Made Practical — How do you delegate effectively without losing control or quality?
• Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical — How do you run one-on-ones that are actually useful?
• Extreme Ownership, Made Practical — What is Extreme Ownership, and how do you actually lead with it?
• Feedforward: Future-Focused Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior — What is feedforward and how does it improve performance better than traditional feedback?
• Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical — How does the quality of your relationship with your leader affect your performance and career?
• Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders — What makes a truly great leader, according to the research in Good to Great?
• Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss — How do you manage up effectively without being manipulative or sycophantic?
• Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them — What is a Multiplier leader and how do you become one?
• Psychological Safety in Teams — How do you build psychological safety on a team?
• Psychological Safety, Made Practical — What is psychological safety, and how do you actually build it on a team?
• Servant Leadership, Made Practical — What is servant leadership, and how do you actually practice it?
• Situational Leadership, Made Practical — What is situational leadership, and does it actually work?
• Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose — What does "start with why" mean for leaders, and does it actually work?
• Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical — How do you lead more effectively by focusing on strengths rather than fixing weaknesses?
• The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) — What are the six types of working genius and how do you use them in a team?
• The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like — What are the seven questions in The Coaching Habit and how do you use them?
• The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation — How do you use the Eisenhower matrix to prioritize and delegate effectively?
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical — What are the five dysfunctions of a team and how do you fix them?
• The Four Stages of Psychological Safety — How do you build psychological safety in a team, step by step?
• The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical — How does the GROW coaching model help people reach their goals?
• The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People — How do you use the GROW model to coach someone through a problem or goal?
• The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm — What does it mean for a manager to lead like a coach, and how do you make the shift?
• The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work — What are the three one-minute practices and why do they work?
• The RACI Matrix, Made Practical — How does the RACI matrix clarify roles and prevent confusion on a project?
• The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus — How do you scale a company without losing execution focus and team alignment?
• The Trust Equation, Made Practical — How do you build trust as a leader using the Trust Equation?
• Transformational Leadership, Made Practical — What is transformational leadership and how do you practice it?
• Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development — What are the Tuckman stages of team development and how do you use them?