The worksheets, scenarios, and retrospective formats from the book, as files you can use, edit, and adapt.
The book describes patterns. The companion is what those patterns look like written down: anonymised situations to coach with, conflict maps to externalise the disagreements you have not named yet, and retrospective formats for teams that have stopped surfacing the things that matter.
Three of the most-used worksheets are below as printable PDFs. The full set lives as editable Markdown on GitHub, where it continues to develop alongside the book.
Formatted for filling in by hand on paper or in a PDF reader. Each is one practitioner's working tool, not a group activity sheet. The time to fill them in alone is the work.
A worksheet for one person to externalise a multi-party disagreement. Forces you to write the parties, the tensions, what is not the problem, your own standing to intervene, and the conversation you have been avoiding.
A pairwise grid for mapping trust, alignment, and contact frequency between stakeholders in a complex situation. Surfaces coalitions and triangles that may not have looked like a pattern from inside the situation.
A short format for recording decisions made under disagreement. Captures what was deprioritised, who dissented, and the trigger that should reopen the decision later. Use it for the decisions that will be questioned six months from now.
The companion repository carries the rest. Anonymised scenarios for coaching sessions and SPC-style training; retrospective formats designed to surface, rather than smooth over, the disagreements that drive most failures; filled-in examples of the worksheets above; a six-week book-club structure; and a contribution guide for new scenarios and translations. German especially welcome.
Fill in the worksheets alone first. Compare with one trusted person before acting. The frankness required to fill them in usefully is incompatible with broad audience. They are working artefacts, not deliverables.
Use the scenarios with a discussion partner or a small coaching group. They are written without model answers; the disagreements that surface while working through them are the point.
If you adapt or translate a worksheet for your team, please share it back. The companion improves with every contribution from someone using it in a different organisation than mine.
Kyle