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Leadership gap map
Skills that earned your last step vs. skills the next step requires.
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Fillable worksheets and checklists that match the book. Download a PDF, or open the page, write in the fields, and print.
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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Skills that earned your last step vs. skills the next step requires.
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Five items to transfer in writing, with names and dates.
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Ten people who can stall or accelerate the current bet.
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Customer, bet, risk, ask — 150 words.
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Owner, type, date to revisit.
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Stop-doing, deputies, decision rights, stretch assignments.
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Person, not status. Next move. Feedback that is still warm.
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How they treat the room, not only how they treat the compiler.
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Decision, options, recommendation, risk. Ninety seconds.
One worksheet per practice in the book: questions, feedback, problem framing, conflict, time, and ELBTG on a live project.
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Ask marketing, sales, and finance before you design. Chapter 2.
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Specific, behavioral, actionable, respectful. Chapter 3.
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Technical version vs. customer, cost, or team version. Chapter 4.
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Write the strongest version of the view you do not hold. Chapter 6.
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What each person brings that is not on the job description. Chapter 7.
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Issue without villains, root cause, next step both can live with. Chapter 8.
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Protect two hours for high-value work. Chapter 10.
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Why, skill, ownership, change, who grows — one page. Chapter 11.
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Goals, listen, plan, track, feedback. Matches the Mentoring Workbook.
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Eleven sessions — one per chapter — for teams and academies.
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A profile and a reading path through the real chapters.
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.