Free leadership playbook · Fall 2026

Leadership & Management in Practice

Five practical ways to work through the conversations, decisions, and changes in front of your team.

Drawing on Leadership in Manufacturing episodes 131–151, this playbook brings together lessons from electronics and manufacturing leaders, worked examples, and five exercises to use with your team.

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5
Practical chapters
5
Fillable worksheets
1
Action plan for your next step
Inside the playbook

Start with the challenge in front of you.

Each chapter explains an approach, works through an illustrative industry situation, and gives you a worksheet to adapt it to your own team.

01

Make it easier to ask the question

Help people raise concerns while there is still time to act. Work through an unconfirmed product claim before launch.

02

Be clear about who can decide

Give recurring decisions an owner and clear limits. Separate a confirmed customer update from a new delivery promise.

03

Give people a chance to practice

Turn development into a supported assignment. Give a colleague responsibility for part of a supplier review, with time and help to prepare.

04

Explain what changes and what happens next

Walk through a new process with your team. Find the uncertain handoff, name its owner, and agree on the next step.

05

Check the answer before you use it

Make human review part of using AI. Check current sources and missing customer requirements before sharing a component comparison.

From the conversations to your team

A practical guide from Sannah Vinding

Sannah is an engineer and product marketing and go-to-market leader. She created Leadership in Manufacturing as an independent industry learning platform alongside her full-time leadership roles.

This edition draws on conversations with guests including Nate Witsaman at DigiKey, Riad Nizam at Master Electronics, Jeff Newell at Mouser Electronics, and Ellen Albright at E-T-A. The episode guide links to the conversations behind the chapters.

This is the second playbook of 2026, following What Great Leaders Actually Do. You can use it without having read the first.

Choose one thing to try.

Start with one chapter, use the worksheet, and return with your team to see what helped.

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