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Relational Tools


Relational Skills Assessment

Tool · September 2026

An assessment couples take separately that maps six relational skills and shows where your pictures of the relationship agree and differ.

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Team Collaboration Lab

Tool · April 2026

An interactive tool for teams to diagnose and improve their collaboration dynamics.

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Essential Questions to Ask Yourself Before Committing to a Partner

Tool · September 2026

A self-administered instrument for evaluating a partner across five dimensions of character, capability, compatibility, chemistry, and clarity, using only what you have directly observed.

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189 Questions for Assessing Kindness and Humility

Tool · September 2026

189 questions distilled from thousands of sources, organized across 35 dimensions of kindness and humility — from empathic perception to intellectual honesty.

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Social Skills and How to Develop Them

Tool · September 2026

89 skills organized by the seven phases of a social interaction — from the life you build between conversations to the moment you walk away.

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The Three Questions of Indirect Assessment

Tool · September 2026

You can't know who someone is by asking them directly. Here is a method for seeing who someone really is — where to stand, over what time, in which conditions.

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Advanced Psychological Interview Questions

Tool · September 2026

Ten questions designed to reveal character, integrity, tenacity, and relational capacity in high-stakes hiring conversations.

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Book


Before You Advise: Nine Questions for More Effective Advising

Book · June 2026

Asking better questions enables you to give better advice. This book has the questions you should be asking — derived from studying where the most capable people in history got stuck — to lead higher value conversations with your clients. It's written for attorneys, financial advisors, coaches, therapists, consultants, family office managers, and anyone else whose work involves helping clients think through consequential choices.

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