Workbook
When You're Not the One in Charge
Scripts and strategies for getting heard, getting paid, and getting protected at work.
You don't have their power. You have yours. Name it.
For the professional without formal authority — individual contributors, contract workers, anyone in a workplace not built for them — who needs strategies for navigating without disappearing.
The Name It First Experience
Institutional power is not evenly distributed, and most workplace advice assumes you have more of it than you do. Your Institutional Power Playbook starts where you are — without the title, without the network — and builds outward. The exercises map your real assets, identify the dynamics at play, and produce concrete strategies. No platitudes. Stress-tested and signed. The output is not career advice. It is Your Institutional Power Playbook.
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Sample questions
- What leverage do you actually have in your workplace right now — not what you wish you had, but what is actually available to you?
- What has "keeping your head down" cost you — and is that cost still worth it?
- What is a workplace dynamic you've been navigating reactively that you'd handle differently if you had a clear strategy?
Research basis
Kanter on structural power sources in organizations (resources, information, support, opportunity) / Ferris political skill inventory on workplace navigation competencies / Maslach on powerlessness as driver of depersonalization / Carter racial battle fatigue framework applied to underrepresented professionals.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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