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FAQ: Business Strategy card decks

Business Strategy / Business Administration decks are toolkits that contain tactics, frameworks, and prompts to help professionals craft clear, actionable business strategies. Each card typically offers bite-sized guidance on decision-making, leadership, market analysis, and long-term planning. These decks aim to break down complex strategy topics into digestible steps, guiding users through structured approaches to business challenges. By distilling decades of business wisdom, these decks help businesses operate efficiently, streamline processes, and remain adaptable.

These decks are used by business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, and strategists who are looking for structured guidance to improve decision-making, solve business challenges, and lead their teams more effectively. Accessing these decks on your phone enhances the experience by making strategic insights and tactical guidance available on-the-go. Whether during a meeting, brainstorming session, or a quick decision-making moment, users can pull up relevant frameworks and tactics to make informed choices instantly.

These decks are valuable because they provide practical, step-by-step tactics to solve business problems, enhance strategic thinking, and drive business growth. As a mobile resource, these decks become even more valuable by offering immediate access to strategic tools wherever and whenever they are needed. The mobile format allows for features such as saving favorite tactics, tracking progress, and receiving personalized notifications, ensuring that business strategy becomes a consistent, integral part of everyday operations.

You use these decks by drawing cards that present specific tactics, frameworks, or questions to help guide business decisions, from evaluating market opportunities to leading teams or navigating challenges. Having the deck on your phone enhances this by making it easier to integrate strategic thinking into your daily routine. You can quickly reference key tactics during meetings, workshops, or even on-the-go, ensuring that your decision-making is always backed by solid, practical advice.

By leveraging mobile apps, users can access real-time business insights and ensure their strategies are informed, effective, and aligned with business goals.

Brand Archetypes

THE BLUEPRINT TO YOUR BRAND’S CORE IDENTITY

Leadership Expert

SUCCESS THROUGH PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT - WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS AND FRAMEWORKS

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Welcome to the Leadership Expert section of our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

This section encapsulates essential management and leadership development modules, that have consistently proven effective in real-world applications.

We have distilled these principles into practical, easy-to-apply tools, providing leaders with a diverse toolkit to choose from.

Our aim is to enable successful individuals to seamlessly transition into successful leaders upon promotion—an area where many organisations face significant challenges.

By focusing on critical leadership skills, our card decks help bridge this gap, ensuring that rising leaders are well-equipped to handle their new responsibilities effectively.

This section also incorporates models based on the latest research in Emotional Intelligence, emphasising the importance of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills in leadership.

Additionally, we feature our proprietary Empathic Leadership™ module, which combines empathy with strategic thinking to foster a supportive and productive work environment.

Whether you are an emerging leader looking to develop your skills, or an experienced manager seeking to refine your approach, our Leadership Section offers comprehensive insights and actionable strategies.

These tools are designed to enhance your leadership capabilities, enabling you to inspire and guide your team toward achieving organisational goals.

Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills needed to excel as a leader in the 21st century business landscape.

Our CARD DECKS provide a structured yet flexible approach to leadership development, ensuring you are prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

Pick-a-Postcard: Metaphors for Life Reflection Deck

METAPHORIC REFLECTION CARDS TO INSPIRE MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT, CONVERSATION, GROUP FACILITATION, COACHING, TEACHING AND GOAL SETTING

HEART SPACE

CONNECTION. REIMAGINED.

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HEART SPACE

Connection. Reimagined.

Deepen and demystify the art of creating safer spaces - one card at a time!

This deck puts the six foundational essences of heart space, plus thirty-six empowering embodiment practices, at your fingertips so you can begin to harness their transformative power in the work you do to support others.

This deck can help you:
- boost engagement and participation
- minimize conflict, anxiety and boredom
- amplify trust and respect
- strengthen flexibility and resilience
- increase empathy
- foster a deep sense of being seen and heard

Use the deck to gain confidence with simple yet powerful practices that foster authentic, meaningful connection for you and the people you serve. Draw a single card for inspiration, select a handful of cards to increase your comfort level and proficiency, create a full hex-shaped layout to explore a specific challenge, or choose a card to share as an opening circle, journal prompt or discussion topic with your clients, staff, students or participants.

This deck is ideal for:

coaches, counsellors, yoga instructors, healers, teachers, facilitators, event organizers, leaders, managers, caregivers, mentors, change-makers or anyone else who is passionate about building safer spaces

48 cards (with detailed descriptions and journal prompts).

Enjoy the deck on your own or share the experience with others.


Designed and created by Heidi Kalyani
heartwideopen.ca/heartspace
Copyright © Heidi Kalyani, 2022

Heidi Kalyani is an architect of HEART SPACE who is passionate about building spaces that foster authentic, nourishing, meaningful connection. She also loves singing, writing, designing, hiking, cooking, and drinking hot steamy tea. She lives in a small house with lots of sunlight in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.

Creator:

Heidi Kalyani

Communications Expert

WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS FRAMEWORKS

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Welcome to the Communication Expert section of our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

Effective communication is fundamental to any business interaction, and mastering this skill is crucial for professional success.

Our comprehensive communication section delves into all aspects of interpersonal and organisational communication, providing you with the workshops, tools, strategies and tactics to enhance your interaction skills across various scenarios.

This section covers essential topics such as eye contact, Body Language, and Micro-expressions, helping you understand and leverage non-verbal cues to convey confidence and empathy.

We also explore Personality Awareness and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), offering strategies to tailor your communication style to different personalities and enhance your persuasive abilities.

Building trust is a cornerstone of effective communication. Our card decks include techniques like Isopraxism and rapport-building, enabling you to create strong, trust-based relationships with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders. These skills are vital for fostering a collaborative and supportive business environment.

Additionally, our communication section provides practical guidance on presentation skills, ensuring you can deliver clear, compelling messages to any audience.

We also cover the essentials of crafting effective press releases, helping you communicate your organisation's news and achievements with clarity and impact.

Whether you are looking to improve your daily interactions, enhance your public speaking abilities, or master the art of written communication, our

Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS offer a comprehensive, practical approach to developing your communication skills.

Equip yourself with the expertise needed to excel in any business setting.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

CX Enabler Cards - Part of the CX Fundamentals Tool Kit

SIXTEEN CORE PRINCIPLES TO ELEVATE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

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Elevate your Customer Experience strategy with the CX Enabler Deck, a foundational resource introducing 16 core principles designed to strengthen your CX explorations. Each card spotlights a key CX element, offering both positive actions and cautionary insights to foster balanced, impactful discussions.

  • Foundational Elements: Every Enabler is a cornerstone of effective CX, providing your team with essential guidance for shaping strategy and decision-making.

  • Balanced Perspective: Gain clarity on best practices while staying alert to potential pitfalls, ensuring your approach remains focused and sustainable.

  • Versatile Use: Whether in a workshop or individual review, these insights help you identify key CX priorities and unify your team around meaningful goals.

Though the CX Enabler Deck excels as a standalone resource, it integrates seamlessly with the CX Challenge Deck, which offers 96 targeted prompts for addressing specific CX challenges. Each Enabler is linked to multiple Challenge Cards, bridging the gap between high-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

Together, these decks form the CX Fundamentals toolkit—a comprehensive framework for diagnosing, analysing, and transforming your customer journey. Use the CX Enabler Deck to guide conversations, pinpoint focus areas, and align your team on the principles that power exceptional Customer Experiences.

Creator:

Werner Puchert

Shitty First Draft

SMART AUTHORS START SOMEWHERE!

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Writing a book isn’t always easy – we all start with big dreams, but along the way, it’s easy to get sidetracked by doubt, distractions, or simply lose momentum. That’s where the Shitty First Draft deck comes in. Whether you’re just getting started, or deep into the writing process, these cards are here to help you keep going, especially when things get tough.

This deck gives you an insight into the Smart Author System’s Scheduling and Scribing principle, and is designed to give you bite-sized strategies to keep you on track. Each card offers a quick and actionable tip you can implement in just 15-30 minutes, helping you move forward as you work toward completing your book.

The cards are divided into four suits, each focusing on a key area of the writing journey:

Time – Practical strategies to help you manage your time, make writing a priority, and get those words down consistently.

Focus – Tips to help you stay on track, block out distractions, and build habits that keep you moving toward your goals.

Motivation – Ideas to reignite your passion, overcome writer’s block, and maintain your momentum throughout the writing process.

Boost – Confidence-boosting tips for those moments when self-doubt creeps in, helping you embrace your voice and push past the inner critic.

HOW TO USE THIS DECK

This deck is designed to be your go-to tool whenever you need a little push or fresh inspiration. Here’s how you can make the most of it:

Pick a Card a Day: Whether you need help managing time, staying focused, or finding motivation, commit to one action each day to keep your writing momentum going.

Go With Your Gut: Feeling stuck? Pick a card at random and trust that it’s exactly what you need to move forward in that moment.

Keep Moving: Each card is a small but powerful step toward finishing your book. Focus on progress, not perfection – even a little action can make a big difference.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

If you’re looking for more support with your writing or book marketing journey, head over to www.librotas.com/resources for free guides, workbooks, and tips to help you stay inspired and on track.

At Librotas, we’re passionate about helping you confidently step into your role as an author and make an impact through your book. This is the first in a series of Book Mentor in Your Pocket decks, designed to support you on every step of your writing, publishing, and promotion journey.

ABOUT THE CREATOR

Karen Williams, The Book Mentor at Librotas®, has helped hundreds of business authors turn their expertise into impactful books. With 10 books of her own and over a decade of experience coaching clients, Karen knows what it takes to turn a rough first draft into a business-building bestseller. Through her Smart Author System, she helps authors navigate every stage of the process – from the initial idea to the final book launch.

YOUR FEEDBACK MATTERS

This is our first deck – and just like any first draft, it’s a starting point. Your feedback will help us refine and improve future versions, just like revising a book. We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas! Please send them to karen@librotas.com – your input will help us make this deck (and the ones to come) even better.

A note on the design: You might notice the edgy, bold look of the deck cover, contrasting with the calmer design of the cards inside. This reflects the dual nature of the writing journey – sometimes it’s messy and full of crossed-out ideas, and other times, it’s about finding focus, clarity, and calm. Both are part of the process, and this deck is here to guide you through it all.

This deck is copyright protected.
Copyright © Karen Williams 2024
All rights reserved. No parts of this deck may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the written permission of the author.

Creator:

Karen Williams

Manual Deck

54 HANDS-ON CREATIVE INSTRUCTIONS

Dissolving Imposter Syndrome

UNCOVER YOUR BRILLIANCE AND SHINE BRIGHTLY

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Welcome to the Dissolving Imposter Syndrome Card Deck.

My intention is for this deck to be used to dismantle and dissolve fears, limiting beliefs, patterns, programs, repeating patterns, unworthiness, self-doubt and anything else standing in the way of you showcasing your Particular skills and gifts. Each of us has a gift or gifts that we have come here to share with others. Sometimes a negative experience, a negative comment, a run of bad luck, low self-esteem, anxiety and regular old fear can get in the way of us Shining our Light, shining and sharing our Gifts with the World.

This deck is here to support you as you navigate the dismantling and dissolving of all the things that stand in your way.

The deck has four categories and several bonus cards. Each category is color coded with a theme.

The first category is the dissolving piece. These cards are yellow. Yellow, like the third chakra to access your Power. These cards provide information and prompts to get you thinking about where Imposter Syndrome may have originated for you.

The second category is called Questions to Support You. These cards are Purple. Another powerful and strong color to lift you up as you contemplate each question meant to support you on your journey.

The third section is called, Inspiration. These cards are pink. The beach scene with a pink background is intended to drop you into a relaxed state and provide a sense of inspiration. As you feel the warmth of the ocean water and air, feel your feet in the sand, the intention here is to feel inspired by the information on these cards.

And lastly, the blue cards are the Take Action cards. This is where I prompt you to take some action each time these cards are pulled. Be gentle with yourself with these and be sure to have fun taking one small step towards your goals and dreams.

A Dissolving Imposter Syndrome workshop will be offered throughout the year. The deck will be a support to the workshop. Rest assured, if you can't take the workshop with me, the card deck will serve as a helpful companion on your journey towards stepping forward with your gifts with more confidence and certainty.

Wishing you so much love and success on your journey and remember to be gentle with yourself and curious about the process.

I look forward to hearing about all your successes and seeing you Shine brightly as the stars in the night sky.

Much love,
Anastasia

The Empathy Edge

HARNESSING THE VALUE OF COMPASSION AS AN ENGINE FOR SUCCESS: A PLAYBOOK FOR BRANDS, LEADERS, AND TEAMS

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Furious customers? Missed deadlines? Failed products? The problems your business faces may stem from a single issue: lack of empathy.

Being empathetic at work means seeing the situation from another’s perspective, and using that vantage point to shape your leadership style, workplace culture, and branding strategy. Pairing her knowledge as a branding expert with proven research and fascinating stories from executives, change-makers and community leaders, Maria Ross reveals exactly how empathy makes brands and organizations stronger and more successful.

Ross shows why your business needs to cultivate more empathy now, and shares the habits and traits of empathetic leaders who foster more productivity and loyalty. She gives practical tips, big and small, for how to align your mission and values and hire the right people, cultivating a more empathetic—and innovative—workplace culture. Finally, she gives you the goods on building your empathetic brand in an authentic and proactive way, and shows how doing so results in happier customers, innovative work cultures and increased profits.

In this card deck version of the acclaimed playbook for businesses of all types, Maria Ross proves that empathy is not just good for society—it’s great for business, and may transform you at a personal level, too.

Creator:

Maria Ross

Discover Card Deck's Why (Why Decks Series)

28 FUN WAYS TO INTEGRATE CARDS IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

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Exploring the many way card decks help us life happier lives

Let's Explore 28 Types of Card Deck Usage.

Coaching & Education

  • Learn a new skill: Use cards as flashcards for language learning, coding, or other subjects.
  • Get mentally & physically fit: Create card games to exercise the mind and body.
  • Dare to create something: Use cards as prompts for writing, drawing, or crafting.
  • Test & refresh your memory: Play card games to improve memory and cognitive function.

Creativity & Ideation

  • Get inspired: Use cards as a source of inspiration for creative projects or problem-solving.
  • Get creative & brainstorm: Use cards for brainstorming, mind mapping, or idea generation.
  • Combine options in new ways: Use cards to create unique combinations and explore possibilities.
  • Creative writing: Use cards as prompts for writing exercises or stories.

Workplace Facilitation

  • Plan your future: Use cards for goal setting, vision boarding, or time management.
  • Nurture culture in the workplace: Use cards for team-building activities or icebreakers.
  • Give and get feedback: Use cards for anonymous feedback or appreciation sharing.

Wellness & therapy

  • Reflect deeply on life: Use cards for journaling prompts or meditation.
  • Nurture your focus & concentration: Use card games or solitaire to improve focus.
  • Practice a therapeutic modality: Use cards for art therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or other modalities.
  • Build rituals & healthy habits: Use cards to create daily or weekly routines.

Prompts & Choices

  • To check in with your values: Use cards for value clarification or alignment exercises.
  • Get mentally unstuck: Use cards for problem-solving or decision-making.
  • Evaluate your life priorities: Use cards for life assessment or goal setting.
  • To put things in sequence: Use cards for planning or organizing tasks.

Challenges & Entertainment

  • To get social and join others in a challenge: Create card-based challenges or competitions.
  • Play games & join challenges: Enjoy classic or innovative card games.
  • Have fun building healthy habits: Use cards for gamified habit tracking.
  • Fend off depression or sadness: Use cards for mood boosting activities or distractions.

Spirituality, Oracle & Tarot

  • To get spiritual: Use cards for tarot readings, oracle card readings, or meditation.
  • To create a vision board: Use cards as visual representations of goals and dreams.
  • To ask a question: Use cards for divination or seeking guidance.
  • To manifest dreams: Use cards for visualization or intention setting.

Additional Ideas

  • Explore the 28 ways we can use card decks: This list itself can be a starting point for further exploration and creativity.

Creator:

Nick Kellet