Free guided tools from Tandem Coaching

Interactive Decision Tools for Leaders, Coaches & Buyers

Bring a real situation. Work through a few focused prompts. Leave with an immediate, explainable result grounded in the article you are reading.

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22 useful starting points

Choose the situation you are working through

Each tool sits with the article or page that explains its context, assumptions, and limits.

Lead and navigate change

Turn leadership friction or organizational change into a focused next move.

Priority matrix

Choose your leadership development priorities

This free leadership development priority matrix helps leaders choose two development areas to practice next and creates an observable 30-day experiment for each.

Useful for: Managers, leaders of leaders, functional executives, and people adjusting to broader leadership scope.

Pattern matcher

Find an organizational change pattern worth studying

This free change pattern matcher compares a reader's change type, scope, urgency, and sources of friction with organizational change examples in the article, then explains two patterns worth studying and a practical first move.

Useful for: Executives, change leaders, HR and organizational development practitioners, and managers leading a material change.

Priority matrix

Build an evidence-aware AI disruption signal map

This free Industry Disruption Signal Map organizes 12 sector-level observations into four transparent evidence bands, names the strongest pressure the reader reported, and keeps uncertainty visible.

Useful for: Executives and senior professionals separating observed sector change from headlines and personal career predictions.

Self-rating profile

Which part of the C-suite seat needs your attention first?

This free Technology Executive Scorecard turns fifteen self-ratings into a profile across five areas of a technology executive's first year (business and money, the CEO and the board, the leaders under you, where your week goes, and your agenda for AI and cost) and names the area to work on first.

Useful for: CTOs, CIOs, Chief Digital, Data and AI Officers, and the vice presidents of engineering or IT stepping into one of those seats.

Self-rating profile

Which executive presence gap is behind your feedback?

This free ACE Check turns nine self-ratings into an Authority, Context and Expression profile and names the gap most likely behind feedback that you need more executive presence.

Useful for: Managers, directors and senior professionals who have been told they need more executive presence and want to know what that feedback means.

Plan a coaching engagement

Prepare scope, agreements, and budget conversations with visible assumptions.

Coverage builder

Build your coaching agreement coverage checklist

This free builder helps coaches review six agreement-coverage areas for an individual, sponsored, team, or single-session coaching context, then produces open discussion topics and stakeholder-specific preparation prompts.

Useful for: Coaches preparing an engagement agreement, sponsor conversation, team-coaching agreement, or session-level agreement.

Investment estimator

Estimate an executive coaching investment range

This free estimator turns the article's published executive-coaching ranges into a transparent planning band for individual PCC, individual MCC, C-suite MCC, or team coaching engagements, with assumptions and quote-comparison questions.

Useful for: Executives, HR and L&D leaders, procurement partners, and buyers comparing executive or team coaching proposals.

Coverage builder

Stress-test an employee development plan

This free audit checks whether an employee development plan makes seven design elements explicit: outcome alignment, baseline evidence, observable behavior, development method, support and accountability, review cadence, and a success measure.

Useful for: Managers, people leaders, HR partners, and employees reviewing a practical development plan.

Investment estimator

Estimate your ICF certification cost

This free estimator combines a reader-selected coaching-education budget with current ICF membership, application and first-exam fees, mentor coaching, exam preparation, retake, and travel assumptions for ACC, PCC, or MCC planning.

Useful for: Aspiring and credentialed coaches planning an ACC, PCC, or MCC application and comparing the whole cost of different education routes.

Practice coaching judgment

Work through realistic coaching moments and receive explanatory feedback.

Practice lab

Try four PCC-level coaching moments

This free practice lab presents four coaching scenarios about agreements, presence and listening, evoking awareness, and facilitating growth, then explains how each response affects client partnership and suggests a practice focus.

Useful for: Coaches developing PCC-level partnership, mentor-coaching participants, and credential candidates practicing reflective judgment.

Practice lab

Try four moments where good intentions can take over

This free coaching practice lab presents four realistic moments involving client emotion, coach bias, a relationship rupture, and silence, then explains how each response affects empathy, non-attachment, useful vulnerability, and presence.

Useful for: Coaches, mentor-coaching participants, and coach-training learners practicing relational judgment in emotionally or personally charged moments.

Practice lab

Try two official PCC/MCC exam scenarios

This free ICF exam practice lab presents two official PCC/MCC situational-judgment scenarios, asks readers to select the best and worst action in each, and explains the reasoning behind every choice before suggesting a study focus.

Useful for: PCC and MCC credential candidates practicing situational judgment, plus ACC and ACTC candidates who need the correct free practice-test route after reviewing the format difference.

Run your coaching practice

Set fees from your market and your income goal, with every assumption visible.

Pricing calculator

What should you charge for your coaching?

This free Coach Pricing Calculator shows what buyers in your market pay a coach like you, the hourly floor your income goal needs, and how many clients each of three prices takes.

Useful for: Coaches setting their first fees or deciding whether to raise them.

Build a development experience

Turn development objectives and practical constraints into an ordered plan you can adapt.

Guided planner

Build a leadership workshop sequence

This free workshop sequencer turns leadership-development objectives, leader level, available time, format, group size, access needs, and follow-up capacity into a timed agenda using activities explained in this article.

Useful for: Leadership-development facilitators, managers, HR and learning partners, coaches, and team leaders planning a practical workshop.

Guided planner

Create a 90-day executive AI learning roadmap

This free executive AI learning roadmap combines role, career direction, selected AI fluency priorities, and weekly time into a deterministic 90-day practice plan.

Useful for: Executives and senior professionals who want a practical, role-aware AI development sequence rather than a generic course list.

Four-week practice tracker

Build a four-week executive presence practice

This free executive presence practice tracker turns feedback-backed Expression, Authority, or Context gaps into one four-week exercise with a baseline, cadence, observable measure, and local progress record.

Useful for: Leaders and managers who have specific executive-presence feedback and want a bounded practice routine in real work situations.

Guided planner

Build a Kotter failure-point action sequence

This free Kotter failure-point action planner turns observable change-stall signals, initiative phase, working-group reach, evidence reach, risk constraints, and follow-up capacity into a timed leadership working sequence.

Useful for: Executives, change sponsors, guiding-coalition members, HR and organizational-development leaders, transformation leads, and coaches supporting an active change initiative.

Choose a development path

Make credential, market, and investment trade-offs explicit before committing time or money.

Decision canvas

Build your ICF certification investment case

This free decision canvas helps prospective coaches test whether ICF certification fits their current professional goal, market, experience, constraints, and client-acquisition expectations.

Useful for: Aspiring coaches, internal coaches, HR and leadership professionals, career changers, and working coaches considering an ICF credential.

Comparison workbench

Build a coaching certification comparison

This free workbench helps prospective coaches compare five coaching credential and training routes according to the factors that matter in their intended market.

Useful for: Prospective coaches, working coaches, internal coaches, HR and talent professionals, and buyers comparing coaching credentials or skills programs.

Comparison workbench

Match a coaching model to the conversation

This free coaching-model workbench compares six common models against the presenting issue and the structural trade-offs a coach wants to emphasize.

Useful for: Coaches, coach trainees, mentors, supervisors, and leaders comparing coaching conversation models.

Decision canvas

Plan the right executive coaching engagement

This free planner helps you decide whether the situation calls for one-to-one executive coaching, company-sponsored coaching for one leader, development for a group of leaders, coaching for an existing leadership team, or more fact-finding before you buy.

Useful for: Executives choosing coaching for themselves and organizations choosing support for one leader, a group of leaders, or an existing leadership team.

Make your case for the next level

Turn the work you already do at the next level into a case you can hand to your boss.

Case builder

Turn the work you already do into a promotion case

This free Promotion Case Builder turns the next-level work you already do, what it changed, who has seen it, what you have been told is missing and your ask into a one-page promotion case you can copy, print or email to yourself.

Useful for: Women in senior manager and director roles who get praise and raises instead of the promotion, and anyone who finds it hard to talk about their own results.

Designed to support the article

Context first. Interaction when it helps.

These are not thin quizzes or course selectors. Each one performs a bounded job that the surrounding article has already taught you how to think about.

Learn the context

The canonical article explains the model, evidence, assumptions, and terminology before the tool asks you to apply it.

Work through the situation

Answer a small number of transparent prompts. The logic is deterministic rather than an unexplained AI judgment.

Use the result

See your useful result on the page, then choose whether to copy it, continue reading, or request a richer emailed report.

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This collection helps you think through a live decision. Tandem also maintains a separate practitioner library for downloadable resources.

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