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Skills for Career and Leadership Success
Management Success Skills Workbooks
Improve interpersonal communication amongst a team
Engage more quickly and effectively with your team in order to improve performance and productivity
Motivate and re-engage the team
Assist your team through uncertain times
Identify high potentials for future leadership roles
Resolve conflict quickly and effectively
Focus on the key areas, in bite sized, self-paced components for leadership development
Who are these Management Success Workbooks for:
✓ Managers and leaders who have a responsibility to engage, motivate, and drive the performance of others.
✓ Professionals who want to improve their management and leadership skills so they can be even more productive leaders.
✓ Professionals who want to improve their self-leadership through increased and improved self-awareness.
✓ Managers who know that ongoing professional development leads to ongoing career success.
✓ Anyone who want to be a better leader and engage others more effectively.
Self-Paced Self-Coaching Management Skills Workbooks
These workbooks are perfect for Middle Managers because...
Editable PDF Format: Tailored to your needs, it’s easy to fill in, save, and revisit as you grow in your role.
Practical & Action-Oriented: No fluff—just proven strategies and tools to help you take initiative immediately.
Designed for Your Day to Day: Specifically created for the unique challenges middle managers face, bridging the gap between getting the work done, leading teams and influencing senior leaders.
Taking the Initiative
Are you ready to take your leadership to the next level? Learn how to confidently take initiative, pitch your ideas, and inspire your team.
This workbook is your personal toolkit for mastering the art of initiative-taking, tailored specifically for middle managers navigating the space between senior leadership and their teams. Packed with actionable exercises, thought-provoking coaching questions, and practical strategies, it’s designed to help you build confidence, drive innovation, and lead with impact.
Your leadership journey begins with one bold step, take the initiative today.
Managing Uncertainty
Lack of sureness
Doubt
Skepticism
Mistrust
Lack of conviction or knowledge
Unsure of outcome or result
Uncertainty, especially when managing and leading a team, is going to be part of your role at some time, that's guaranteed. It's not a matter of avoiding it but rather preparing and responding effectively when it occurs.
Goal Setting, Planning & Prioritising
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and you're chatting away for a few minutes before you realise you are both talking about different matters?
Most times, when noticed, this is quite funny and easily fixed. However if neither of you pick up on what's happening, there's a risk of bigger, expensive issues arising.
Defining goals, setting and planning goals and plans creates a common space that everyone can work from.
Women In Management
10 Strategies for Women to Excel in Management
Leadership is more than a role; it’s a journey of growth, influence, and impact.
For women in management, this journey often comes with unique challenges—navigating workplace dynamics, breaking through barriers, and balancing professional and personal priorities. Yet, it also presents immense opportunities to lead authentically, inspire teams, and drive meaningful change.
This success book is designed to equip you with actionable insights and tools to thrive as a leader. These strategies address key aspects of leadership, from mastering self-leadership to building influence and championing diversity. Whether you’re looking to enhance your emotional intelligence, communicate with confidence, or create a leadership brand that truly represents you, this guide has you covered.
Management Success Skills Workbooks
The following workbooks are written to compliment the Management Success Cards
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Communication
There is no arguing just how essential communication is for everyday life: from turning off your morning alarm to your last thoughts and words before you fall asleep.
Quality communication leads to high performance, productivity and profits.
At the very foundation of communication, what we all take for granted, is the messages we send are received and understood.
To get a message across we need to create the message, use the most appropriate method to send it, and ensure it is received with the same
meaning we intended it to have.
Creativity & Innovation
Why is creativity related to / linked to innovation?
So often used interchangeably, creativity and innovation are not the same. Some may say you need creativity for innovation.
Creativity is a capacity to see connection amidst random or unrelated things: to conceptualise unique, new, unusual. More than an ability to draw, sign, paint, we all have a creative potential.
Innovation is the ability to turn ideas into products, services or processes of value.
Dealing with Difficult Employees
There's no denying that there are some people that just grate on you. It seems like no matter what you try to do, the relationship simply won't gel.
You've heard the one-liners / sayings:
Different strokes for different folks.
It takes all kinds.
Some people make a difference, some people make you different.
It's critical that difficult employees are not simply written off as difficult. It's also critical to note that you may be perceived as difficult by others.
Delegation
Stop doing ALL the work while your team watches. Delegation isn’t dumping, it’s strategic lever pulling. This workbook helps you assess what to delegate, who can do it (and how to set them up for success), and how to follow up without micromanaging.
You’ll walk away with practical templates, self-coaching questions that highlight your delegation blockers, and a simple framework to multiply your impact without multiplying your to-dos.
Managing Remotely & Virtually
Years ago when I was an employee I asked my boss if I could work from home for one day as I needed to be home for a tradesman to show up and repair my hot water system.
By the look on my boss' face and by the tone of her voice you'd have thought I slit her throat she reacted so savagely to my request. At first she said "no" but after pleading because I couldn't get anyone else to do it, she conceded, with conditions.
She started breathing fast, telling me to divert all the phones to my mobile phone, put a sign up on the office door of how to contact me and when I'd be back, to answer all calls within three rings, and not to tell anyone I was not in the office!
COVID changed all that!!!
Managing Self
Being a middle manager means juggling strategy, stakeholders, and swirl. You can’t lead others well until you’ve cracked your own engine.
This workbook focuses on self-awareness, energy management, cognitive load, and decision rhythm.
Through honest reflection tools and action steps, you’ll build a repeatable practice that improves your clarity, presence, and confidence, not just your output.
Meetings
Meetings are one of the biggest drains on time and energy for middle managers. This workbook helps you rethink the purpose of meetings and redesign them to drive clarity, alignment, and progress rather than frustration and fatigue.
You will work through tools that help you decide when a meeting is actually needed, how to structure it effectively, and how to manage participation, decisions, and follow-up.
The focus is on creating meetings that respect time, support accountability, and move work forward.
Motivation
Motivation is often misunderstood as something leaders need to create for others. This workbook helps you understand motivation as something you can influence through clarity, autonomy, recognition, and meaningful work. It explores what truly drives people, especially in demanding and uncertain environments.
Using practical diagnostics and reflection tools, you will learn how to identify individual motivators, respond to disengagement early, and sustain momentum across your team.
This workbook supports you to lead in ways that lift energy, commitment, and discretionary effort.
Performance Management
Performance management is not an annual event. It is an ongoing leadership practice. This workbook helps middle managers move away from avoidance, inconsistency, and reactive conversations toward clear expectations and timely, constructive feedback.
You will work through frameworks that support goal clarity, regular check-ins, honest conversations, and fair accountability.
The workbook builds confidence in managing both strong performance and underperformance in a way that is respectful, consistent, and aligned to organisational expectations.
Problem Solving & Decision Making
Middle managers are expected to solve problems quickly while balancing risk, ambiguity, and competing stakeholder expectations. This workbook helps you slow the moment down just enough to think clearly, diagnose issues properly, and avoid jumping to solutions that create new problems later.
Through practical frameworks, reflection exercises, and decision guides, you will strengthen your ability to analyse situations, weigh options, and make confident, timely decisions.
The workbook supports you to move from reactive problem-solving to deliberate, values-aligned decision making that builds trust and credibility.
Team Building
Teams do not automatically function well just because people are capable. This workbook helps you intentionally build the conditions for trust, collaboration, and shared accountability. It focuses on how teams actually work together, not just how they look on paper.
Through practical exercises, you will explore role clarity, team norms, communication patterns, and collective ownership.
This workbook supports you to strengthen team effectiveness, address friction early, and create a team environment where people can perform at their best.
Time Management
Time pressure is a constant reality for middle managers. This workbook helps you shift from feeling overwhelmed to working with greater focus and control. It is not about doing more, but about prioritising what matters most and letting go of low-value activity.
You will work through tools that help you assess how your time is really spent, align priorities to outcomes, and establish practical work rhythms.
The workbook supports sustainable productivity, better decision-making, and reduced stress for you and your team.
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Middle Manager Leadership & Professional Development Expert & Speaker
Sally Foley-Lewis inspires and skills managers to be high performing, purposeful and productive. Obsessed with leadership and professional development that ensures people reach their potential, Sally’s presentations and programs positively impact confidence, leadership and results.
· 2024 Educator Award for Excellence - VSAI
· 2024 Bronze: ROAR Awards – Leadership Award
· 2024 Professional Speakers Australia: National President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution
· 2023 Gold: ROAR Awards – Service Business of the Year
· 2023 Silver: ROAR Awards – Best B2B Business
· 2023 Bronze: International Business Award – Thought Leader of the Year: Business Services
· 2023 Gold: Beam Australia Awards – Emerging Leadership
· 2023 Silver: Asia Pacific Stevie Awards – Thought Leader of the Year
· 2023 Woman to Watch in Management – Women in Biz Global
· 2021 USQ Outstanding Alumnus of the Year – Business and Enterprise
· 2021 Silver ROAR Success Awards – Leadership Award
Also, named a LinkedIn Top Voice, Breakthrough Speaker of the Year and Female Entrepreneur of the Year, she is also a global Certified Professional Speaker, and has authored five books. The drive to support and skill middle managers comes from her own diverse roles, CEO and senior leadership experiences. She has also served on state and national boards. Sally delivers presentations, keynote speeches, workshops and coaching – live online and face-to-face - to skill managers, boost productivity, engagement and self-leadership.
Blending 20+ years of working with a diverse range of people and industries, in Germany, the Middle East, Asia and across Australia Sally has extensive qualifications, a wicked sense of humour and an ability to inspire and energise.
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