Resources
Here you’ll find a growing library of practical tools, inspiration, and stories designed to help you and your team slow down, think clearly, and work better together.
Each resource offers a small but powerful pause, a short, intentional moment in the rhythm of work to reflect, realign, or reset.
We call these micro-pauses: simple, evidence-based practices that interrupt autopilot, surface what really matters, and help teams move from reaction to intention.
You’ll discover:
- Team tools you can use right away to strengthen trust, alignment, and accountability.
- Inspiration to watch, listen to, or read when you need a nudge or a new perspective.
- Short, research-backed reflections from the Go Slow to Go Fast team, to pause, reflect and reconnect with what matters in leadership and team life.
We invite you to explore, experiment, and take what you need.
And if something resonates, please share it on our LinkedIn page. Every reflection shared helps others pause, learn, and lead with more intention, building teams that are calmer, clearer, and more connected in the way they work (and honestly, who doesn't want that right?).
Personal and Team Tools
Each tool is a micro-pause in action, a short, guided exercise that helps your team slow down just long enough to reset direction, build trust, and decide what matters most. You’ll find tools for reflection, alignment, decision-making and well-being, all tested with real teams, from fast-growing start-ups to global organisations.
The Project Brief Template: a shared pause to align on purpose, priorities, and expectations before work begins
The Pre-meeting Micro-pause: a moment to reset focus and intention before stepping into a meeting
The Self-Coaching Tool: helping you move from self-doubt to more supportive self-talk
The Inner Team Meeting Tool: a self-reflective pause to surface inner tensions so you can lead with clarity
The Alignment Canvas: a structured approach to clarifying foundational levels of alignment (Purpose, Skills and Behaviours) for your team
The Triple A Tool (for goal setting): a step-by-step process to shape meaningful, shared and trackable goals
The Feedback To Accelerate Tool: an intentional approach to giving and requesting feedback to build trust and learning across your team
The What's In It For Me? Tool: a fast way to uncover motivation and increase buy-in across your team
Inspiration: Watch, Listen, Read
Take a few minutes to pause and explore ideas that expand your perspective on leadership, teamwork, and well-being.
This collection has been carefully curated because each piece connects to the ideas that sit at the heart of Go Slow to Go Fast: intentional leadership, psychological safety, and the balance between alignment and self-leadership and autonomy. Each piece of content offers a small window into the art of pausing before acting, so (we hope!) you can return to work with fresh energy and sharper focus.
Being All IN: get inspired about how to re-energise your team’s commitment and joy at work
Aligning your team: bring clarity, trust and purpose back into focus
Building self-leadership in your team: create space for ownership and accountability
Championing Inclusion and Everyday Leadership: these micro-pauses are inspired by 15 extraordinary women who use their experience to guide us on how leadership is about courage and empathy
Stories
Short reflections from the Go Slow to Go Fast team that are practical, human, and research-backed, designed to help you slow down, think clearly, and lead with intention.
Our stories are intentional micro-pauses, brief reflections on leadership, learning and change drawn from real client work and ongoing research. Each story offers a practical moment to step back, notice what’s happening, and reconnect with what matters most.
You’ll find them on The Micro-Pause on Substack, our open space for insights, ideas and shared learning from the field. Subscribe, read and reflect with us as we explore what it really means to go slow to go fast.