Workbooks

Breaking the Bottleneck™ Series

Workbooks that turn real work into leadership practice.

The Breaking the Bottleneck™ workbooks help you and your team build leadership skills while doing the work you already have—no extra binder, no “someday is the day” curriculum.

  • Designed for real firms with limited time and lots of responsibility.
  • Each level focuses on the skills needed at that stage of leadership.
  • Built for learning-by-doing, not just reading and feeling guilty later.
Perfect for owners, managers, and firms building a leadership pipeline.
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Working in a Team Workbook Cover
Managing Leaders Workbook Cover
Leading a Firm Workbook Cover

A Clear Path for Leadership Growth

The series is designed as a simple pathway—from leading yourself, to working in a team, to managing leaders, to leading an entire firm.

1

Leading Yourself

Build habits, systems, and inner skills that make you trustworthy and consistent.

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2

Working in a Team

Develop trust, communication, and ownership as a core team contributor.

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3

Managing Leaders

Coach and develop leaders who can lead others—without everything running through you.

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4

Leading a Firm

Lead with clarity, trust, and long-term vision instead of constant reactivity.

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The Workbooks

Each workbook is a guided, hands-on tool—not a book you read once and forget. You’ll use it week after week as you lead in real time.

Leading Yourself Workbook
Level 1 — Leading Yourself
Leading Yourself
Building the foundation for trust, growth, and leadership capacity.

Before you can lead a team, you have to be able to lead yourself. Build the habits and rhythms that make you steady and trustworthy.

Working in a Team Workbook
Level 2 — Working in a Team
Working in a Team
The skills that build trust, clarity, and collaboration.

This workbook helps your team strengthen communication, ownership, and trust so work flows without constant friction or rework.

Managing Leaders Workbook
Level 3 — Managing Leaders
Managing Leaders
Multiply leadership capacity by coaching leaders who lead others.

Shift from supervising tasks to developing leaders. Build accountability, authority, and follow-through across your leadership layer.

Leading a Firm Workbook
Owners & Partners
Leading a Firm
The trust-driven leadership pipeline for a chaos-free firm.

For owners and partners ready to get out of bottleneck mode. Build leaders, strengthen trust, and lead with long-term clarity.

How Firms Use These Workbooks

  • As a structured path for new supervisors and managers.
  • For partner or leadership team development over 6–12 months.
  • In small cohorts where leaders grow together in real time.
  • As a framework for coaching, performance conversations, and reviews.

Why They Work

  • They’re built for busy seasons and real deadlines—not empty space.
  • They connect faith, neuroscience, and leadership in a grounded way.
  • They focus on simple, repeatable practice instead of one-time inspiration.
  • They give you a shared language for leadership across levels.

Want help using these in your firm?

Whether you’re rolling out the workbooks for yourself, a small leadership group, or your entire firm, Pandora can help you design a simple, sustainable plan.

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