Resources for People Working in Complex Systems

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The Workplace Squeeze Snapshot is a free 5-minute diagnostic designed to help you see where pressure is concentrating in your work.

It does not measure personality, resilience, or performance. It surfaces conditions. If work feels busy but unclear, steady but draining, functional but strained, this snapshot helps you name what may be happening beneath the surface.

It’s a starting point, not a solution.
Clarity comes first.

Estimated time: 5 minutes
Format: 16 statements, immediate reflection 

This free, 1-page guide is most useful in moments like:

• the conversation moves, but nothing actually shifts
• people agree, but ownership stays unclear
• something feels off, but no one names it
• a concern appears… and disappears just as quickly

These aren’t random.

They’re patterns already taking shape in the room.

This guide doesn’t help you “spot signals.”

It helps you see what’s already unfolding, while it’s still forming.

Once you can see differently, the challenge changes.

Not “what’s the right move?”

But:

• What am I actually noticing right now?
• What kind of situation is this becoming?
• Is this still forming… or already stabilizing?
• What’s worth engaging with before it locks in?

Spot the patterns as a practitioner, leader or employee to effectively manage your day to day interactions and work-life.

 A seven module self-paced video course for people navigating the gap between what organizations, and teams say and what they actually do. You'll learn to recognize contradictions as they form through the Squeeze Assessment, understand what behaviour is actually responding to, and develop the language to name what others are navigating around.

Tested and used by practitioners, leaders, and coaches working inside complex systems from around the world.

Price: $89

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Build your absurdity signal reading skills as a leader or practitioner.

Most people leave meetings knowing something went sideways but unable to pinpoint exactly what. This guide gives you language for the moments that are hardest to name, the agreement that lands too quickly, the decision that disappears, the conversation that loops without resolution.

Seven real meeting situations. What you're noticing. What's likely happening underneath. How to respond in the moment or choose not to. Built for use before, during, and after meetings.

Price: $39 

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The full orientation resource kit.

 The Field Guide and the Squeeze Course together. The course builds the foundational capacity to recognize absurdity patterns and understand what conditions are producing them. 

The Field Guide puts that capacity to work in real time inside your meetings.

Together they give you both the pattern recognition and the in-the-moment practice.

Price: $128