On this page you will find my own books and plenty of resources that will help you on your journey to becoming a great manager.
There are Blazingly Simple Guides, Reading Lists and Downloadable Forms too!
Books
Join Our Company
A book about designing and building a WOW hiring and on-boarding experience.
Is your hiring process causing candidates to say WTF, or MEH or WOW?
You have a choice – design for WOW or let it become less than the best.
Visit the Join Our Company page to find out more and buy the book.
The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees
A free book about the effective behaviours managers and employees alike should adopt.
Read more on the 10 Behaviour page
Remaining Relevant
A book for those wanting to remain relevant, employable and productive
Click here to learn more about this book and how to buy it on Amazon.
The Diary of a Manager
You can get the book on LeanPub for free!.
The Employable Parent Brain
A book about how the Baby Effect (having a child dependent on me) drove me to take my career more seriously and take care of my future prospects.
The Employable Parent Brain – Buy it here
So you wanna be a Scrum master?
Blazingly Simple Guides
A Blazingly Simple Guide To Turning Around A Team
A Blazingly Simple Guide To Building A Support Team
A Blazingly Simply Guide To Surviving A Conference (PDF)
A Blazingly Simple Guide To Submitting To Conferences
A Blazingly Simple Guide To Running Amazing Meetings
Articles
- How to conduct a phone interview – A step by step guide for conducting outstanding phone interviews
- How to run an Appreciative Inquiry – A LinkedIn post outlining how to run one of my favourite, and most effective, types of meeting – an appreciative inquiry
- 10 Reasons Why Being A Scrum Master Sucks – Post outlining why being a scrum master sucks
Test Related Content
I used to be a tester and many visitors may be looking for Test Related information. If so, The Social Tester site is still up and running!
Resources and Templates
One To One Form – The Cultivated Management 1:1 Form