You Are the Ceiling

How to Move the Leadership Ceiling You Cannot See

The book asks you to keep a notebook and to complete one sheet, the Aide-Mémoire, as you go. Everything on this page exists to make that easier. Print them, or fill them in on screen. They are free, and you may use them with your own team or clients.

Start here

• The Model at a Glance (PDF)
  One page. The whole model, with chapter numbers, for when a term slips.
• Ten Questions Before You Begin (PDF)
  Answer them before you start and again at the end. Date both.
• The Leadership Journal (PDF)
  Every Leadership Reflection and Task from the book, with room to answer. Replaces the notebook. Fillable.
• The Aide-Mémoire (PDF)
  Your personal reference sheet, fillable, with the completed example from Appendix B.
• Daily Reminders Card (PDF)
  Section Three of the Aide-Mémoire as a card for a pocket, a desk or a phone screen.
• The Three Rings (PDF)
  Concern, influence and control, and the question that follows.
• The Impossible Game Designer (PDF)
  The Chapter 19 task on one page: four conditions, three safeguards, seven questions.
• A Thirty-Day Plan (PDF)
  A reading rhythm that ends with a completed Aide-Mémoire and a first review.
• Group Guide (PDF)
  Six questions for each Part, for leadership teams, cohorts and reading groups.
• Coach’s Companion (PDF)
  How to introduce, sequence and review the Aide-Mémoire with clients.

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For teams, cohorts and coaches

The Group Guide and the Coach’s Companion above are written for people using the book together. For bulk orders, signed copies or a conversation about running the book with a leadership team, get in touch.

How it begins

A conversation. Thirty minutes, confidential, free. We each decide whether this is worth taking further. There is no pitch, and it may end there.

Then the work, before the question. If we go on, you will experience working with me before we talk about what a programme would involve. I do not ask anyone to commit to something they have not yet felt.

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