Free Resources from Mike’s Books

Understanding Your own Time

• Time Log
• Time Log Analysis Tool (.xlsx for latest versions of Excel – 2007-2010)
• Time Log Analysis Tool (.xls for earlier versions of Excel – 1997-2003)
• Time Value Calculator (.xlsx for latest versions of Excel – 2007-2010)
• Time Value Calculator (.xls for earlier versions of Excel – 1997-2003)
• Time Cycle Chart

OATS Planning Tools

• To Day List
• To Do List
• Daily Goal Planner
• Weekly Goal Planners: Version 1 & Version 2

Goal Setting Tools

• Life Will
• Walk your Time Line
• Hierarchy of Mental Levels

Filing and Organising

• File Fronts
• Call Sheet
• To Check list

Brilliant Meetings

• Agenda for Results
• Agenda for Possibility
• Agenda for Opportunity
• Agenda for Rapport
• Brilliant Minutes

Chapter 2: Bury the Gopher

• Four Questions Card - print this one onto a postcard
• Will Do
• To Day

Chapter 3: The Meaning of NO

• Looking for NO’s
• Noble Objection Tent Card - print this on on card
• The Eight Page Method
• IOU Card - print this one onto a postcard

Chapter 4: When to say ‘YES’ and when to say ‘NO’

• Scores on the Doors
• Force Fields

Chapter 6: The Psychology of NO

• Five Steps to Make NO more Easy

Chapter 9: How to say ‘NO’

• It’s OK to disturb me Card

Super-NO

• Toleration Exercise

You will be at your happiest when your values and your purpose in life support one another. Chapter 5 of Brilliant Stress Management will help you understand the importance of taking control of your attitudes. Download this Values Worksheet, to help you with the Brilliant Exercise: “Understanding and renewing your values.”

There are no downloadable resources for Smart to Wise.

There are no downloadable resources for Brilliant Influence.

How to Speak so People Listen is filled with valuable resources; in particular, there are over 20 Speaker’s Checklists.

I have prepared ten items for you to download and put into your briefcase or onto your mobile device. These are free pdf files and all I ask is that you respect my copyright and, if you copy them to a friend or colleague, that you tell them where you got them from and how good the book is (your honest opinion, please!)

Chapter 4: Get Attention

Speaker’s Checklist – Attention Grabbers

Chapter 5: Get your Message Across

• Speaker’s Checklist – Story Plots
• Speaker’s Checklist – Power Words
• A Poster, summarising the meanings of Compelling, Persuasive and Powerful

Chapter 7: Focus on Conversations

• Speaker’s Checklist – Conversation Starters
• Speaker’s Checklist – Telephone Tips

Chapter 9: Focus on Meetings

Agenda for Results

Chapter 10: Focus on Public Speaking

• Speaker’s Checklist – What to Pack
• Speaker’s Checklist – Checks to make on Arrival
• Speaker’s Checklist – Openers
• Speaker’s Checklist – Closers

There are over 30 ‘Organising Yourself’ tools and templates for you to download, along with videos and posters.

If you are not a reader, you are still welcome to download the tools, but you will find clear explanations of how to use them – along with the eight clear steps to managing a great project – in the book. So I hope you will want to buy a copy soon.

All Steps

• How to Manage a Great Project: Eight Steps and Four Stages Poster
  

Step 1: What do you want?

• Project Definition Document
  

Step 2: Does it stack up?

• Business Case v1
• Business Case v2
• Project Budget

Step 3: Who cares?

• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication Plan
• Sample Role Descriptions
  

Step 4: How will you get what you want

• The Book of the Plan
  
• Book of the Plan File Index
• Project Plan Checklist
• Schedule of Project Outcomes and Deliverables
• Milestone Table
• Gantt Chart (Word)
• Gantt Chart (Excel)
• Quality Plan
• Health & Safety Plan

Step 5: Who will help?

• Project Resource Plan
• Work Package Definition
• Responsibility Grid
• Skills Requirement Schedule

Step 6 What if it goes wrong?

• Risk Action Plan
• Risk Register (Word)
• Risk Register (Excel)

Step 7: How is it going?

• Progress Report
  
• Exception Report
• Milestone Status Report
• Change Request
• Change Request Log (Word)
• Change Request Log (Excel)

Step 8: How did it go?

• Project Completion Report
• Lessons Learned Report
• Project Closure Report
• Project Lessons Learned Log
• Operational Use Memo
• Project Closure Memo

Risk Management Templates

• Risk Potential Review
  Based on Table 4.2, this template offers a quick and effective assessment of the overall risk level of your project.
• Risk Happens! Risk Register Template
  This template collates all of the risk register elements illustrated in Tables 4.7, 5.17, 6.7, and 7.1. The columns of this risk register are fully described in the book. (Excel format)
• Risk Management Plan
  Over-arching plan for risk management across your project
• Risk Response Plan
  For detailed response to an individual risk

Templates for related project controls

• Change Control: Change Request form, and Change Log (Excel format)
• Quality Processes: Pro-forma Quality Plan
• Resource Management: RACI Chart

Chapter 2: Focus on Individuals

• Your Project Leadership Point of View

Chapter 4: Foster a True Sense of Team Spirit

• A brilliant example in this chapter offers team names chosen by contestants in the
  TV series The Apprentice, both in the UK and US. I challenge readers to guess
  which were chosen by men’s teams and which by women, and which come from
  the US show and which from the UK. If you want to see the answers, click here.

Chapter 5: Communicate Relentlessly – and well

• Project Meeting Agenda
• Project Meeting Minutes
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication Plan

Chapter 7: Project Planning Stage

• Linear Responsibility Chart
• Work Package Definition
• Gantt Chart
• Risk Register
• Risk Management Plan
• Risk Response Plan

Chapter 8: Project Delivery Stage

• Project Change Request form
• Project Change Control log
• Lessons Learned log

Chapter 9: Project Closure Stage

• Project Closure Memo

A Charter for Ethical Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Analysis Templates

• Love-Hate Analysis
• Stakeholder Benefits Matrix
• Stakeholder Interests Map
• Salience Map

Stakeholder Planning Templates

• Basic Communications Plan
• Basic Stakeholder Communication Plan
• Communications Approach grid
• Impression Plan
• Message Calendar
• Progression Plan – Change Programme
• Progression Plan – Project Stages
• Single-Stakeholder Communications Plan
• Stakeholder Engagement Plan
• Stakeholder Engagement Strategy Planner

Call Handling Templates

• Call Log
• Call Record Sheet
• Calls to make
• Inbound Call Sheet

Download a free extract from the Handling Resistance Pocketbook

Order a pdf version of the Handling Resistance Pocketbook from here.

Download Mike’s articles from Training Journal:

Resistance to Engagement (August 2011)
Employee engagement initiatives often meet with scepticism, resistance and even hostility. Why is this? Can we understand the source of the resistance and build on this understanding to create positive ways to handle it?

Creating the Onion Model (September 2011)
Mike Clayton explains how he created his onion model for resistance – to ideas, to change, to sales, and to employee engagement.

There are no resources for the Management Models Pocketbook.