This section gathers tools and practices that help make shapeshifting work more effective, sustainable, and legitimate. Both for the people doing it, and for the organisations that rely on it.

For individual practitioners, this section includes tools we have developed ourselves — such as reflective frameworks, profiles, workshops, and sense-making practices — as well as tools we regularly use, adapt, or recommend. All are intended to help shapeshifters understand their own patterns of work, develop their capabilities, navigate tensions, and make informed choices about roles, projects, and careers.

For organisations, the focus is on making shapeshifting work easier to recognise and support. This includes emerging role descriptions, position descriptions (PDs), KPIs, interview questions, white papers, case studies, and other artefacts that help translate work-in-between into organisational language, without flattening it or devaluing it.

This section is a shared space. We expect many of the most useful resources here to come from the field: from people sharing their own PDs, stories, experiments, adaptations, and lessons learned. Many of the tools we gather here are intended as living artefacts: things to be tested, refined, and contextualised rather than adopted wholesale.

If the Model names what shapeshifting work is, and Signals and Precedents inquires why it matters now, this section focuses on how it can be done — and how it can be better supported — in the messy reality of projects, organisations, and careers.

This section is a work in progress - we’ll be updating links and sharing more tools

Tools for individuals & personal skills development