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Psychological
Nine Roles Map
You're in 9 roles daily — and different in each. Know them.
Parenting
Each Child's Unique Role
Beware fixing your kids in "roles" ("the rational," "the artist," "the difficult") — each is multifaceted.
Social
Home Role Clarity
Distribute home roles clearly: who owns what, without expecting mind-reading.
Administrative
90-Day Plan for a New Role
Three phases: learn (30), diagnose (60), first win (90).
Administrative
RACI Matrix for Role Clarity
Per task: who Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed — no duplication for first two.
Leadership
Role-Model Decision Test
Imagine someone you deeply respect and ask: "What would you do in my place?"
Administrative
Swimlane Diagram by Role
Each step on a "swim lane" for a specific role — exposes broken handoffs.
Digital & AI
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CRTF Prompt Structure: Context-Role-Task-Format
Write a prompt that gives the AI model precise context, role, task, and expected format.
Parenting
Identity vs Role Confusion (Erikson)
Sign your teen a safe space to try different "identities" without your fixing them by verdict.
Administrative
One Number Per Role
Each team member: one number owning their core responsibility this quarter.
Social
Rebalance Sibling Tension
Use a relationship grid to analyze sibling dynamics and discover your assigned role.
Professional
Difficult Feedback Rehearsal
Before tough talk, role-play as recipient and respond to your script — uncover blow-up points.
Leadership
The 90-Day Plan (Watkins)
In transition to a new role: 30 days listen, 30 plan, 30 execute. Avoid "prove myself immediately" trap.
Leadership
Succession-Readiness Team Mapping
For every critical role on your team, ask: if its holder vanished tomorrow for a month, who could cover? Map the gaps and build a plan to close them.
Administrative
The "Never Delegate This" List
Identify 5-7 tasks that must stay with you, so you delegate everything else with peace.
Digital & AI
Expert Persona Assignment
Assign the model a specific background and expertise so its answer matches a real expert level.
Psychological
Protector Appreciation
Parts you hate in yourself (denier, procrastinator) are protectors — thank them.
Administrative
RACI Matrix per Recurring Decision
For each recurring decision specify Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed — leave no column empty.
Leadership
Coaching Through a Plateau
When someone's progress stalls despite real effort, look for what changed in their performance pattern, not just "less motivation".
Parenting
Sibling Fight Mediation
Don't judge between your kids in a fight — teach them to resolve via 5-step protocol.
Professional
RACI Delegation
R, A, C, I per task.
Professional
Personal Board of Directors
Appoint 5 people as your "personal career board" and review big decisions with them annually.
Social
Two-Chair Perspective Switch
Sit in your chair, then mentally move to the other person's chair and retell the situation from their view.
Social
End Mentorship Gracefully
When mentorship phase ends, close it with a gratitude meeting + redefine the relationship.
Administrative
Zero-Based Headcount Review
Don't ask "do we need another hire?" — ask "if we started today with nobody, who'd we hire first?".
Administrative
Diagnosing Team Stage with Tuckman Model
Identify which of four stages your team sits in today, and adapt your leadership style accordingly instead of using one fixed approach.
Administrative
Zero-Based Org-Chart Review
Draw the org chart you'd want to hit your upcoming goals, then compare it to what actually exists today.
Administrative
New-Member Buddy System
Every new member gets a peer "buddy" (not their manager) for the first 30 days to ask any "silly" question.
Leadership
Leadership Identity Statement
Complete "I'm a leader who…" 7 times without mentioning your job title. Identity is deeper than role.
Leadership
Succession Planning: Who Replaces You?
For each leadership role in your team (including yours), 2-3 ready successors. Otherwise, you're a prisoner of your role.
Leadership
Ethical No Practice
Practice refusing an unethical request clearly and respectfully — before you must in reality.
Leadership
Town-Hall Q&A Preparation Technique
Before any open forum, write the 10 hardest expected questions and answer them in writing — never improvise live.
Leadership
Onboarding a New Team Member: 30-60-90 Day Plan
Design a 3-phase leadership onboarding plan: Learn (30) → Contribute (60) → Own (90) — instead of leaving the new member to "figure it out alone".
Leadership
The Coaching vs. Mentoring Distinction in Practice
Before any development conversation, ask yourself: will I ask questions (coaching) or share my experience (mentoring)? Mixing them fails both.
Parenting
Today's Feelings Chart
A family chart where each member places a magnet for his current feeling — normalizing expression.
Parenting
Your Inherited Emotion Philosophy
Examine how your own parents handled your emotions — you unconsciously replay that script.
Parenting
Visible Family Library
Place books in every room at child arm-level — environment does what persuasion can't.
Parenting
Cooperative Pretend Play
Join your child's pretend play without directing — follow, don't lead.
Parenting
Identity Emerging Pre-Teen
Don't "fix" your 10-12's identity — it's forming, you watch, you don't carve.
Parenting
Peer Pressure Scripts
Drill your teen on 5 ready scripts to use facing peer pressure, before the situation hits.
Parenting
Neurodivergent Strengths (Armstrong)
Instead of "fixing" ADHD/autism/dyslexia deficits, daily show your child the strengths of his different brain.
Parenting
Full Apology to Child
When you wrong your child, fully apologize: what you did, its impact, the change.
Parenting
Supporting College/Career Exploration Without Projecting Your Path
Help your teen explore his own path, not re-execute the dream you never fulfilled.
Parenting
Building the Child's Own Self-Advocacy Skill
Teach your child to explain his own needs gradually — instead of remaining his only voice forever.
Parenting
Training Siblings to Mediate Their Own Disputes
Teach them mediation steps before conflict — not during it — so they become their own mediators, not always needing your verdict.
Parenting
Avoiding the Parental "Peacekeeper" Trap
Your quick intervention to stop every squabble robs your children of learning to solve it themselves — deliberate delay beats over-hasty intervention.
Parenting
Building Sibling Teamwork Through a Shared Project
One project with a genuine shared goal turns "rivals" into a "team" — experience builds the bond, not advice.
Digital & AI
Expert-Student Dialogue for Knowledge Extraction
Have the model play expert + student who asks "dumb" questions — extracts tacit knowledge.
Digital & AI
Ask the Model to Write the Prompt
Don't know how to ask? Ask: "What's the best prompt to get X?" — it writes a prompt better than any expert.
Digital & AI
AI-Assisted Negotiation Preparation
Before an important negotiation, use AI to simulate the other side's likely responses and rehearse your replies, not to write a script you read verbatim.
Professional
Internal Application Prep
Before applying to an internal role, schedule a 20-min exploration chat with the target team's manager.
Professional
First 90-Day Plan
In new role, listen 30 days, plan 30, execute 30 — don't reverse order.
Administrative
Cross-Training Rotation
Rotate every team member to shadow a peer in a different role for a full week each quarter, not a token single day.
Leadership
Devil's Advocate
Designate one person — or take the role yourself — as official critic before approving any major decision.
Leadership
Group Coaching Facilitation Basics
In group coaching, your role isn't answering but fairly distributing attention and turning one person's problem into collective learning.
Leadership
Managing the Pain of Change Deliberately
Real change needs some tension, not zero — your role isn't removing all discomfort, but keeping it within a range that produces learning, not collapse.
Leadership
Inclusive Meeting Design (Async Options, Rotating Facilitation)
Add an asynchronous written channel to every important meeting, and rotate the facilitator role among team members — meetings stop being monopolized by one communication style.
Leadership
Pay-Equity Self-Audit for Managers
Before waiting for an official HR audit, compare your team's pay yourself by role and experience — imbalances are discovered faster from the inside.
Psychological
Passengers on the Bus
You're the bus driver. Hard thoughts are noisy passengers, but you stay on the road.
Administrative
OKR-KPI Integration
KPIs measure business-as-usual, OKRs drive change — don't mix.