Leadership Tools and Courses
Coaching sessions available for purchase. Two 60-minute sessions for $150.
Leadership Cards
At Inspire 3M, we believe that school leaders need tools to accelerate the transformation of themselves and their communities. The Inspire 3M Leadership Cards provide practical insights, sentence starters, and reflective prompts. Chose from 4 individual packs ($14 each) or purchase the whole deck ($45).
Online Courses
Online courses are self-paced programs designed to support leaders. The 3M Framework is embedded into each course providing a unified approach to leadership development. Note that some courses include 2 coaching sessions.
Leadership Cards are aligned to Online Courses
$12
The Base Pack is the foundational component of the Leadership Tools Card Deck. It offers tools, prompts and phrases that will help you develop the skills of modeling desired behavior and managing yourself, staff, and teams.
The Base Pack includes nine cards:
Listen First
Model a teaching and learning stance
Model instructional strategies
Model cultural values
The Compass Tool
Manage yourself
Manage staff
Manage teams
Urgent vs. Important
Prepare for leadership in a new setting with Starting Strong! This course is designed for new leaders and includes two, 60 minute coaching sessions plus guidance to carry out 10 key action steps before the start of the school year. $189 (includes 2 Coaching Sessions).
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This Adaptive Leadership Pack draws inspiration from Ronald Heifetz’ work and encompasses crucial concepts and strategies essential for helping people adopt new values, beliefs, and habits in order to make progress on a challenge.
The Adaptive Leadership Pack includes eight cards:
Adaptive Leadership
Identify the adaptive challenge
Get on the balcony
Give them back their work
Regulate distress
Maintain disciplined attention
Solicit and incorporate feedback
Nurture racial affinity spaces
This self-paced course is designed for school leaders who have mastered the Model and Manage components of the 3M Framework. Participants will learn the 7 core strategies of adaptive leadership in schools. $239 (includes 2 Coaching Sessions).
Course Starts March 17, 2025
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The Emotional Intelligence Scaffolds for Difficult Conversations Booster Pack is a vital component of the Leadership Tools Card Deck. This booster pack will help you maintain connection with your audience even as you communicate difficult messages.
The Emotional Intelligence Scaffolds for Difficult Conversations Booster Pack includes nine cards:
Plan a conversation
Start and end with gratitude
Acknowledge positive intent
Communicate your objective
Ask for permission & generate curiosity
Check for understanding and feelings
Express care and belief
ABCs of disagreeing
Three point conversation
Master 4 tools and 6 scaffolds to effectively deliver difficult messages while maintaining connection and empathy with your audience. $29
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The Shaping School Culture Booster Pack stands as the pinnacle set. Expanding on the work of Tema Okun, Kenneth Jones, and others, it offers antidotes for common cultural problems as they appear in schools. This set will help you inspect, name, and interrupt maladaptive cultural traits.
The Shaping School Culture Booster Pack includes seven cards:
Hero vs. Host
Tension Adverse vs. Tension Resilient
Objectivity vs. Intentionality
Hierarchy vs. Collaboration
Individualism vs. Collectivism
Contract vs. Covenant
Scarcity vs. Sustainability
Identify and interrupt harmful cultural patterns in your school community. Learn the seven strategies and antidotes. $29
Course Starts March 1, 2025