Build self awareness required to take risks, step outside your comfort zone and sustain yourself through the many challenges of leadership.

Leadership Competencies

• Know your strengths, vulnerabilities and triggers
• Know the story others tell about you
• Choose among competing values
• Get used to uncertainty and conflict
• Experiment beyond your comfort zone
• Take care of yourself

Build relationships with all the stakeholders of the issue(s) you care about so that you can engage those with influence and those affected but less likely to have their voices heard.

Leadership Competencies

• Engage unusual voices
• Work across different stakeholders
• Start where they are
• Speak to loss
• Inspire a collective purpose
• Create a trustworthy process

Understand the Challenges

Learn from a diversity of styles and perspectives about the challenges you will need to address to have an impact on the issues that matter to you.

Leadership Competencies

• Explore tough interpretations
• Distinguish technical and adaptive work
• Understand the process challenges
• Test multiple interpretations and points-of-view
• Take the temperature
• Identify who needs to do the work

Experiment with different ways to engage all stakeholders and manage conflicts productively so that you can make progress on the challenges.

Leadership Competencies

• Make conscious choices
• Raise the heat
• Give the work back
• Hold to purpose
• Speak from the heart
• Act experimentally