resources · working documents

Resources

Frameworks, briefs, and reading — drawn from the practice.

A small library of one-pagers, briefs, and reading lists used in Bricolas engagements. Each is a working document — taken from the actual practice, not built for download.

Assessments

Tool

The GDAQ

Measure how you read a room. A validated instrument mapping the four kinds of attention you bring to any group — free, 28 questions, with your personal Field of Vision report on the spot.

Framework

White Paper · Framework

3D Management

The three modes every manager holds simultaneously — and what goes wrong when one collapses into the others.

Framework

Guide

Toward a Systems View of Leadership

The companion guide to Where Leadership Actually Lives: the 25 bodies of scholarship engaged, the full citation list, the measurement record, and the methodology of the three AI experiments behind the paper.

Framework

White Paper · Framework

Leadership Architecture

Why development so often doesn’t hold — and how to design the conditions around a leader so it does. The Bricolas proposal for what’s been missing: four structural pulls, an authorization gate, and how the work runs.

Framework

White Paper

Where Leadership Actually Lives

A stance on leadership from Bricolas: not a property of the leader, but what happens between a move and the room’s response. Seven decades of field history, the measurement record, and three AI probes shape how we think.

Tools

Tool

Do Better

A Claude Code skill that reads your own session logs and shows where you and your AI keep tripping over each other, then hands you a concrete fix. Not another metrics dashboard.

Tools

Reference Card · Worksheet

The Eisenhower Matrix

Sort what truly needs you from what doesn't. A decision tool for plotting work by urgency and importance — and seeing your first candidates to delegate.

Tools

Worksheet

Delegation Reflection

What you delegate for — and how you delegate — says something about how you lead. A fillable reflection worksheet for managers at the threshold.

Assessments

Guide

Assessments Overview

A practical reference to the personality and 360 assessments Bricolas deploys in coaching and team development — what each measures, when it fits, sample reports, and relative cost.

Coaching

Reference Card

Dream Believe Achieve

A coaching framework for moving from problem to action — the Dream → Believe → Achieve arc, plus a starter question bank and OARS moves for putting on a coach's hat at work.