
The Corentus Toolkit
A Toolkit for Real Teams, Doing Real Work
This Toolkit reflects over two decades of experience with leaders and teams across 30+ countries. We frequently point to our main tools and microtools throughout our site, and, more importantly, we use them every day in our work with teams. The tools we’ve chosen to highlight across our site are the ones we use most often, the ones clients consistently ask for, or find themselves needing.
What you’ll find below is an expanded list.
These tools are grounded in the Corentus Team Wheel framework, which outlines four key dimensions of team effectiveness:
Collaboration & Cohesion, Mutual Accountability, Common Purpose & Shared Goals, and Roles & Competencies.
Within those dimensions are 22 elements, and for those, we’ve developed both Main Tools and MicroTools to support targeted team development.
We define a Main Tool as: A robust collection of contextual insights, MicroTools, client cases, and more that help teams develop new skills and competencies.
We define a MicroTool as: A short, focused practice that can be taught and used in less than 10 minutes, ideal for busy teams that want to see immediate results.
We also know your organization may already be using tools from other sources. We welcome that. Our work is about effectiveness, and we’re happy to integrate tools your team already trusts.
Whether you’ve already identified a focus area where your team could go from good to great, or you’re still figuring out where to start, we’re here to help. Reach out to start the conversation.
Common Purpose
Main Team Tools:
Common Purpose & Shared Goals
Team Charter
Shared Goals
Main Team Tools:
Shared Goals
Scope of Work
Main Team Tools:
Building Organizational Relationships
Enterprise Mindset
Strategic vs. Operational vs. Tactical
Team Membership
Main Team Tools:
Team Member Onboarding
Team Leadership
Main Team Tools:
Innate Leadership
Leadership and Management
Leadership Promotions - The Golden Hour
Leading through Change
Strategic Leadership
Roles & Responsibilities
Main Team Tools:
RACI-D
MicroTools:
Offers & Needs
The 5 Drivers
Authority & Decision Rights
Main Team Tools:
Decision Making
Competencies
Meeting Effectiveness
Main Team Tools:
Intentional Meetings
MicroTools:
3-Phase Method of Intentional Meetings
Formulating a Meeting Purpose
Meeting Work Sessions
Meeting Agenda
Meeting Styles
Openings & Closings (State of Mind)
Meeting Boosters
Meeting Derailers
Objectives - Process - Outcomes (O-P-O)
Zero to Five
Four Items for Follow Through
Shared Commitments for Follow Through
Conflict Management
Main Team Tools:
Conflict Management
MicroTools:
S-P-N-S
De-Escalating High Emotion
Triangulation
The Drama Triangle
Clearings
Planning & Organizing
Main Team Tools:
Delegation
Work Products Methodology
State of Mind & Energy
Main Team Tools:
State of Mind
Stress & Resilience
Building Resilience
The 4-Step Method (Heartmath)
KR Grieving Cycle
MicroTools:
State of Mind Check-in Chart
State of Mind Impact Chart
Joy Trio & Health Quad
Notice Shift Share
Coherence Breathing
Reframe
Problem Solving
Main Team Tools:
Leading Through Change
Creativity and Innovation
Culture Change
Managing Polarities
Functional Subgrouping
Cynefin Framework
MicroTool:
IQCS/IICS
Inclusion & Integration
Main Team Tools:
The Foundations of Team Cohesion (i4)
Decision Making
Main Team Tools:
Decision Making
MicroTools:
Decision Modes
Four-Stage Decision Process
Trust & Safety
Main Team Tools:
Psychological Safety
Trust
Communication
Main Team Tools:
Productive Conversations
Communication Behaviors of HPTs
Facts and Opinions
Transforming Complaints
MicroTools:
Bohm Dialogue
Listening
Skillful Dialogue
Proactive Engagement
Inquiry
Development & Growth
Main Team Tools:
The Thinking Path
Groupthink
Self-Awareness
Authenticity
The Engagement Cycle
Awakening