Resources

Tools you can use on Monday

Fillable worksheets and checklists that match the book. Download a PDF, or open the page, write in the fields, and print.

Core toolkit

The nine tools most leaders print first — gap, delegation, influence, briefs, decisions, a 90-day plan, 1:1s, hiring, and the executive room.

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Leadership gap map

Skills that earned your last step vs. skills the next step requires.

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Hiring bar for leaders

How they treat the room, not only how they treat the compiler.

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Executive briefing checklist

Decision, options, recommendation, risk. Ninety seconds.

From the chapters

One worksheet per practice in the book: questions, feedback, problem framing, conflict, time, and ELBTG on a live project.

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Stakeholder question list

Ask marketing, sales, and finance before you design. Chapter 2.

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Constructive feedback check

Specific, behavioral, actionable, respectful. Chapter 3.

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Steel-man the other side

Write the strongest version of the view you do not hold. Chapter 6.

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Team strengths map

What each person brings that is not on the job description. Chapter 7.

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Conflict conversation

Issue without villains, root cause, next step both can live with. Chapter 8.

Guides

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ELBTG mentoring loop

Goals, listen, plan, track, feedback. Matches the Mentoring Workbook.

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Book discussion guide

Eleven sessions — one per chapter — for teams and academies.

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Engineering leadership assessment

A profile and a reading path through the real chapters.

Named in the book

  • Engineering Leadership Bridging the Gap

    Peter R. Becker Jr.

    The book this site serves. Start here.

  • ELBTG Mentoring Workbook

    Peter R. Becker Jr.

    Companion to Chapter 3 — goals, listen, plan, track, feedback.

  • Crucial Conversations

    Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler

    Named in Chapter 8 for conflict that stays human.

  • Strengths Based Leadership / StrengthsFinder 2.0

    Rath & Conchie / Gallup

    The twelve team approaches in Chapter 8 draw on this work.