Tools

Onboarding Resources

Improve employee retention, satisfaction, and performance by implementing a strong onboarding process from the moment they are hired.

Say Goodbye with Empathy: Employee Termination Tips

Letting employees go is difficult, but sometimes necessary. Here's a guide to make it easier to say goodbye with care and empathy.

Inclusion & Anti-Discrimination Checklist

Workplace diversity drives innovation, improves decision-making, and makes it easier to hire more amazing people. Identify the organizational systems and practices you can strengthen, change, or create to build a stronger organization. 

Three Ways Leaders Successfully Solicit Staff Feedback

Want more feedback to improve the workplace and help your organization achieve better results for animals? Here are three things you can do to successfully solicit feedback. 

How to Design an Engagement Survey

Learn how to design and administer an engagement survey to assess your team's productivity, performance, and job satisfaction with this tool.

Listening Tour Template

Lead change confidently and effectively with a listening tour. Studies show that when employees and stakeholders feel heard, they are more likely not to just accept change but feel part of it (Workforce Institute, 2021).

Mission, Vision, and Values Playbook

This playbook will help you think through your company's guiding principles, which can inform strategy going forward.

Role Description Template & Tips

Enhance performance, reduce confusion, and provide purpose and security at work with clear role descriptions.

Leadership Assessment Tool

Leadership assessment can be tricky. What are the markers of a good leader? How can you measure leadership effectiveness fairly and simply? We’ve created this Leadership Assessment Tool to help you do just that.

One-on-one Agenda Template

This agenda template can help you maximize your one-on-ones for greater impact and engagement.

Sample Project Calibration

Boost your project success (and enjoyment) by setting clear expectations via a calibration check before you begin the work.

Email Communication Pro-tips

In this article, we break down the key elements of effective email communication in the workplace that’s easy (and maybe even fun) to read and act on.

The DACI Method: Pro-tips

In this guide, we lay out the difficulties that tend to come up when teams use DACI and how to avoid them so you can spark effective collaboration instead. After all, creating a better world for animals starts with creating better workplaces for the humans trying to help them.

Power-with Assessment

Start your shared power journey with this Power-With Assessment to gather your team's perspectives to identify the best opportunities to grow and distribute power.

Working Well Across Time Zones

The animal protection movement is international because animals are everywhere. Check out these 10 tips to work well with your team across different time zones.

Feedback Norms Guide

Give productive feedback and lay the foundations for a strong and effective feedback culture by creating feedback norms. Download the Feedback Norms Guide to learn how to encourage feedback in the workplace to accelerate learning and improve collaboration.

Four Ways to Make it Safer for Staff to Share Feedback & Concerns

A healthy feedback culture encourages people to learn, improve, and innovate faster. Learn how to make it safe for staff to share feedback and concerns to foster a healthier feedback culture.

Employee Engagement Interventions

Learn what to do after reviewing the results of your employee engagement survey. Here is a list of high-impact interventions that can benefit your organization.

Sample Proposal Template

Foster a culture of innovation and idea generation that spans across all levels of your organization. This tool can help your team propose their ideas in a strategic and effective way.

Organizational Focus Template

Equip your team with a concise "cheat sheet" to help them take strategic action based on the organization's purpose and plan of action.

Sample Leader & Manager Hiring Process

Hire people who can drive your organization forward and create a great workplace with a solid leader and manager hiring process.

Leadership Impact Self-Assessment

How do you know if you’re an effective leader, making a lasting impact on your mission and team? Download the Leadership Self-Assessment Test to discover your strengths, come up with a plan to improve your leadership skills in the workplace, and make an even bigger difference for animals.

Deliberate Development Plan

Empower your team by co-creating a development plan with each person you coach. Encourage regular updates to track progress and achieve learning goals with this personal development tool.

Sample Retrospective

Want to accelerate learning and alignment across your company? Start holding retrospectives every month or at the end of each project. Download the Sample Retrospective for high-impact retrospective meeting questions to guide your next retro.

The DACI Method 101

Want to accelerate learning and alignment across your company? Start holding retrospectives every month or at the end of each project. Download the Sample Retrospective for high-impact retrospective meeting questions to guide your next retro.

Even-Over: A Prioritization Tool

Even-overs apply to just about every area of work where you have to make decisions – especially if you need several people to make similar decisions quickly and independently. Use the tool below to audit the clarity of even-overs across your company.