Catalystic Leadership Field Guides

Tools for the challenge in front of you.

Leadership does not always require another answer. Sometimes it requires a better way to see the situation, test what you believe, work through competing needs, or decide how to move when the answer is not yet clear.

The Catalystic Leadership Field Guides are a practical library of frameworks we use in coaching, leader development, and team work. Each guide is designed to help leaders think more clearly about a real challenge and move toward useful action.

They are not a curriculum you need to work through in order. Start with the guide that fits the challenge you are facing.

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Each guide introduces a framework, explains when it is useful, and provides questions you can put to work immediately.

CLS-001 Model for Improvement visual
CLS-001

Model for Improvement

Clarify what you are trying to accomplish, define what improvement would look like, and learn through small tests.

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CLS-002 Leadership Agility visual
CLS-002

Leadership Agility

Expand your leadership range and choose the posture that best fits the situation rather than relying on a habitual response.

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CLS-003 Cynefin visual
CLS-003

Cynefin

Distinguish situations where the answer can be known from those where the path forward has to emerge through action and learning.

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CLS-004 Catalystic Perspective Model visual
CLS-004

The Perspective Model

Move farther ahead, consider other perspectives, examine the larger system, and notice what is happening in yourself.

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CLS-005 Evaporating Cloud visual
CLS-005

Evaporating Cloud

Move beyond either/or conflict by surfacing the assumptions that make two competing prerequisites appear unavoidable.

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CLS-006 Leadership Range visual
CLS-006

Leadership Range

Diagnose what you know, what others know, and whether the work calls for execution, teaching, expertise, or discovery.

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The framework is not the work. The value comes from using the right lens on a real challenge, exercising judgment, acting, and learning from what happens next.