The rafted toolkit v2.0
FREE WORKBOOK + 7-WEEK COURSE
For people who got promoted into leading leaders and haven’t had a calm week since.
Get the full workbook and start with the 4-minute score sheet, it shows where your raft is leaking: your time, your team or your stakeholders, so you work on one thing this week, not everything.
Then each Tuesday you get one short video lesson and one exercise. You'll learn how to lead leaders without being the bottleneck: stay calm when the plan changes, build a team that doesn't need you for every decision, and handle executives with confidence. 100% free.
4-MIN CHECK
Twenty-one lines about the last two weeks, as they actually happened. Answer fast. Don't manage the score.
Three scores: your time (Oars), Your team (Crew), stakeholders and decisions (Currents). The lowest one is where the water is coming in fastest, and the only section you need this week.
25+ PAGES
With the frameworks which helped me lead for 15 years:
Oars: staying calm when the plan changes, reclaiming your calendar, handing over the oars.
Crew: 1:1s that build trust, feedback that lands, seeing what your team does without you.
Currents: saying no to executives, mapping who can quietly stop you, deciding at the right speed.
Every one with a pen-and-paper exercise.
7 TUESDAYS
One video story (under 3 minutes) and one exercise, every Tuesday for seven weeks.
Each email goes deeper into the frameworks you just used. I tell you a real situation from my 15 years of leading, including the ones I got wrong, then give you one pen-and-paper exercise to try that week. No pitch.
SAMPLE FROM the TOOLKIT
WHAT DOES YOUR CREW DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT THERE?
Monday, 9:00. Your best director says everything is on track. On Thursday you find out it wasn't. Or the opposite: nothing moves until you sign off, and you haven't had a free hour in weeks.
When you lead leaders, those are the two ways it goes wrong. This page lets you place each of your direct reports on two questions: do they tell you early, and do they decide without you?
This is 1 of 9 frameworks. The full toolkit, including the exercise for this one, arrives as a download link in your inbox.
“You are not failing. You are on a raft”
From PAGE 3, THE RAFTED TOOLKIT — Marco zima simonella
Written from 15 years leading product teams.
Read by 12,000+ leaders on LinkedIn.
Is this another PDF I’ll never open?
That’s exactly why the score sheet is on page 4. Nine frameworks is a to-do list, not a toolkit. Four minutes tells you which one is yours.
I’ve been leading for years. Is this too basic?
The frameworks aren’t new. Applying them when an exec has just moved your deadline and your best person has gone quiet is a different job. This is written for that week, not for a course.
What happens after I sign up?
You'll get an email straight away with the download link for the toolkit. Then, starting the first Tuesday after you sign up, seven Tuesdays: each one a video story under 3 minutes and one exercise, no pitch. Unsubscribe in one click and keep the toolkit.
I don't work in product. Will this apply?
Yes. It's built for anyone stepping up to lead leaders, in any function. My 15 years are in product, but the frameworks are about people, stakeholders and decisions: an exec who moves your deadline, a direct report who goes quiet, someone who can quietly stop your plan. The exercises use your own team and your own week.
HOW IT WORKS
Sign up
All I need is your name and best e-mail address.
TODAY
Open the first email and click the download link: the full toolkit, 25+ pages including the 4-minute check.
EVERY TUESDAY
A video story under 3 minutes and one exercise, for seven weeks. The first arrives the first Tuesday after you sign up.