Battle-tested tools for effective leadership

What follows is a collection of materials about NG and our services. We make our tools available to our VC partners and the entrepreneurial community and soon will offer free online communication training through our non-profit.

This deck introduces our firm and shares the tools we use that help startup leaders gain the mindsets and leadership skills to scale their companies.

CEO & Executive Coaching

If you have CEOs who want coaching, simply introduce us and feel free to edit this template if you’d like

Our behavioral approach to leadership helps leaders identify their blind spots and create high-performance teams.

Leadership Tools for Executives

This short online self-assessment helps leaders understand their strengths and weaknesses, and make new leadership choices.

This is a sample report of our 360 feedback process. Our leaders draft development plans based on these reports

The C.U.B.E. for Conflicts helps leaders prepare for the most challenging conversations and avoid many common mistakes.

Communication Tools

This draft e-book that helps leaders give constructive feedback and build high-performance teams.

We help clients hire full-time embedded coaches to build leaders and culture throughout the organization

Culture Building and Embedded Coaching

This scenario-based training is designed to teach leaders and middle-managers effective conflict, facilitation and communication skills. The videos are a choose-your-own-adventure sitcom where you help the main character Britt navigate a challenging situation.

Getting your team to talk with each other, give each other feedback, have effective meetings and problem-solving conversations is a key to an effective culture. We give you an out-of-the-box training that is engaging and effective. It is also offered to individuals online.

We support our VC partners by facilitating CEO dinners, founder workshops, and programs at VC Summits. We do many of these programs at low or no cost to build relationships.

Programs and Coaching for VCs

A tool for Investors and GPs to self-assess their strengths and weaknesses. It also helps them give feedback and support their junior partners.

In our coaching work with GPs, we often coach them around tough conversations with their portfolio CEOS, including influencing CEOs to be more receptive to feedback, reduce burn, or scenario plan.

Complete List of Tools

This leadership self-assessment will help you identify your strengths and development opportunities.

The Seven Pillars of Leadership are a simple way to measure how leaders gain or lose trust, and provide the foundation of a daily leadership practice.

This is the list of our Leadership Pillars and Behaviors. The Seven Pillars of Leadership are a simple way to measure how leaders gain or lose trust and create high-performance teams.

An in-depth brochure on our SLI 360 Assessment

An in-depth brochure on our SLI 360 Assessment

A self- or peer-to-peer 360 leadership assessment that maps 46 micro-behaviors into a detailed growth plan.

Trust

A tool on how leaders gain and lose trust with their teams

CUBE Conversations for:

Saturn C.U.B.E. for Conflict boils down complex models of communication into one practical, easy-to-use method that helps leaders avoid the most common mistakes in challenging conversations.

An in-depth brochure to introduce the core concepts and the training curriculum.

Tools & CUBE for Conflict

This scenario-based training is like being in a choose-your-own-adventure sitcom where you help the main character Britt navigate a challenging situation. See session 1 (of 6.)

This scenario-based training is like being in a choose-your-own-adventure sitcom where you help the main character Britt navigate a challenging situation.

Building a Culture with CUBE

Libraries

Managing a Directs’ Performance