resources
Here you’ll find tools that have helped me during more than thirty years in organization development, coaching, and change leadership. This isn’t an exhaustive list—just a collection of things I’ve found genuinely helpful that can support your team at different stages of development.
You don’t need to use all these tools to be an inclusive leader—you just need the ones that give you insight, spark conversation, or help your team grow together. Pick what fits your context, experiment a little, and trust your judgment. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s awareness, connection, and progress.
Tools That Help You Know Yourself and Others
These tools are helpful for understanding individual styles, preferences, and motivations, which is foundational to inclusion.
CliftonStrengths (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Identifies individual talents and strengths.
Why it’s useful: Highlights what each person naturally does best and how to build partnerships that maximize team impact.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (certified facilitator required)
Purpose: Explores personality preferences based on Jungian psychology.
Why it’s useful: Helps team members understand and appreciate how others think, plan, and make decisions.
Enneagram (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Reveals core motivations and emotional patterns across nine personality types.
Why it’s useful: Encourages self-awareness and compassion, especially around how people respond to stress and growth.
The Big Five Personality Test (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Measures personality along five major dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Why it’s useful: Offers a research-backed, straightforward view of personality that helps explain interpersonal dynamics.
Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) (certified facilitator required)
Purpose: Predicts job performance by assessing personality traits.
Why it’s useful: Especially helpful for leadership development and succession planning.
Tools That Support Team Effectiveness
These tools are ideal when the focus is on group dynamics, team trust, and collaboration.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Builds team trust, encourages healthy conflict, and drives commitment, accountability, and results.
Why it’s useful: A full-team lens that diagnoses barriers to group success.
Team Emotional Intelligence (EI) Survey (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Evaluates how effectively a team uses emotional intelligence.
Why it’s useful: Brings awareness to emotional dynamics that can make or break collaboration.
Leadership Circle Profile (certified facilitator required)
Purpose: Measures leadership effectiveness through reactive and creative tendencies.
Why it’s useful: Integrates individual and collective insight for leadership teams striving for growth and transformation.
Tools That Address Communication and Conflict
These are especially valuable when teams need to better understand how they interact under pressure.
DiSC Assessment (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Measures communication and behavioral preferences.
Why it’s useful: Offers a common language for navigating different communication styles.
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) (certified facilitator not required but recommended)
Purpose: Assesses how individuals approach conflict across five modes: competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating.
Why it’s useful: Helps teams develop strategies to manage disagreement productively.
Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) (certified facilitator required)
Purpose: Identifies thinking preferences across four quadrants: analytical, practical, relational, and experimental.
Why it’s useful: A practical tool for improving collaboration, problem-solving, and communication.
More Resources
Here I will share books, articles, and websites that I come across that complement the ideas of the inclusionable community.
Books
Empowering People Through Caring Leadership: Strategies That Actually Work by Germain L. St-Denis