Description
Founder Pack
£27
52 questions across 7 categories. Written for founders and visionary leaders to ask their operator, their second in command, their COO, the person who makes it all actually happen.
What is inside:
- Vision and Values Alignment
- Role Clarity and Decision Making
- Managing Priorities
- Communication and Feedback
- Performance and Skills
- Relationship Building
- Joker Cards
Every card carries the question plus a short guide: how to use it, what to listen for, and what a good outcome looks like.
No training required.
A few of the questions inside:
“Which recent decision did you bring to me that you think you could have made yourself in retrospect?”
“What difficult conversations have you been avoiding having with me?”
“On a scale of 1 to 10, how safe do you feel sharing difficult truths with me?”
“What do I do that pisses you off?”
Second In-Command Pack
£27
55 questions across 8 categories. Written for the second in command to ask their founder. For the COO, the operations director, the integrator, the chief of staff, the one holding it all together in the middle.
What is inside:
- Alignment
- Clarity
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Growth
- Relationship Building
- Trust and Understanding
- Joker
Every card carries the question plus how to use it and the outcome you are aiming for. Pick one, take it into your nextone to one, and see what comes up.
A few of the questions inside:
“How do you want me to bring you bad news: early and rough, or later and more fully thought through?”
“In which areas do you want me to act with full ownership, and in which areas do you still want my recommendation
before a decision is made?”
“What conversation have we been skirting around because it feels awkward, sensitive, or inconvenient?”
“What is the elephant in the room between us right now, minus the corporate language?”
The It Takes Two Bundle
£50, saving £4
One Founder Pack and one Second-in-Command Pack. 107 questions in total, covering both sides of the partnership.
This is the one to buy if you want the conversation to go both ways. The founder asks, the second in command asks, and nobody is left guessing what the other one actually thinks.
It also makes a very good gift from a founder to their second in command, or from a second in command to their founder, depending on who is braver.
How To Use
Turn talk into transformation
Regular check-ins. Pick one to three cards to shape your weekly or monthly one to one.
When something is stuck. Choose from the category that matches the problem: priorities, decision rights,
communication, trust.
To build the relationship. The Relationship Building and Joker cards are the ones that get people talking properly.
For the harder conversations. There are cards built specifically for feedback, disagreement and repair, so you do not
have to find the words yourself.
The colour coded categories make it easy to find the right question for the moment you are in. No special training. Just
an honest conversation.
Simple. Practical. Ready to use.
Open the box, pick a card, have the conversation. That is the whole method.
Created by Emma and Julie at It Takes Two, from years of living the founder and second in command partnership from
both sides. The brilliant alignment, the frustrations, the conversations that needed to happen and never quite did.
Founder Pack £27 · Second-in-Command Pack £27 · The It Takes Two Bundle £50
