With Action Learning Courage Quests,
You’ll Profit with Courage-Building Leadership
WELCOME! Your Courage Leadership Journey can include a mix of Quests – which equip you and your team of high-potential leaders to achieve breakthrough results and profit through turbulence, rather than surrender to fear or settle for risk-averse compromises. Most leaders start their Coaching Journey with a self-assessment on the 5 leadership secrets that build courage + win support from the champions you need. Some start with a Courage Workshop to Make Courage Contagious in their team. Others jump right into a courage consultation, with a specific just-in-time pitch or leadership challenge they’re facing. We invite you to peruse the menu of online questions in our library, then – Click > Let’s talk about the impact you’re leading followers to achieve, and the courage you want to build so they join you on your journey >
GET STARTED. ASSESS YOUR COURAGE-BUILDING MOJO. Dare to imagine what’s possible. Profile your courage-building leadership mojo on 5 strengths that overcome fear and mobilize support. See how you equip teams to get traction, thrive under new pressures and achieve enterprise-vital + career-making successes. Then – go on to build your Growth Plan with your Courage Coach. Click > Start your first Quest
PITCH WITH COURAGE. Show investors you’re funding-ready + adoption-ready – with a message, biz case + presence to get traction with your enterprise-vital presentation. Convert buyers, investors, strategic partners or your own board from being intrigued to being champions. Accelerate to the next level of decision-making or due diligence. Click > For pitch prep to buff up your stage presence + the effectiveness of your pitch
ENNOBLE, UPLIFT, CHALLENGE. Ennobling Dialogues™ equip you to get traction with buyers, strategic partners, investors or your own colleagues – when you need champions and advocates, with a stronger commitment to get traction and move forward. You’ll face fear with empathy, without enabling or surrendering to fear. You’ll make “No” or “Not ready” the start of a dialogue, not end. You’ll draw out concerns, get permission to challenge and commit to upgrades that accelerate progress on new standards of care and better industry practices. Click > Start Ennobling Uplifting Trusted Challenger Dialogues
SERIOUS FUN. HANDS-ON TEAM ACTION LEARNING. With an online virtual team simulation or a live team building and problem-solving workshop, sharpen diagnostic skills so leaders see risk-averse traps in real time. Then, with hands-on practice, learn how to step up, reach out, lean in and lift teams out of risk-averse compromises so you get more traction on key business initiatives Click > See more on Towers Templars Khanim + other hands-on Courage team activities
SELF AWARENESS – 360 FEEDBACK. This Quest shows your leadership impact – when you reach out to colleagues and external partners, and encourage them to lift their game. You’ll get a profile of your leadership superpowers and growth areas from your board/boss’ vantage point, from colleagues and direct reports and, if you wish, from customers and external partners. And build a development plan to leverage your strengths so you’re ready to accelerate new initiatives and grow into bigger broader leadership roles. Click > Get your 360 Feedback + deepen your self-awareness
CULTIVATE ACCOUNTABILITY, OWN YOUR POWER + DEFY GRAVITY. Make things happen, don’t watch things happen. ere’s how to stay empowered to engage, ennoble, uplift and triumph – rather than surrender to victim thinking, fear + costly risk-averse compromises. When you feel compromised by antagonists and naysayers, here’s how to step up, lean in and build forward momentum. See how mindflips can create better luck – rather than take what fate bestows – and keep risk-averse pressures from limiting your Courage to Act. Click > Start the Victim/Take-Charge mindflip that’s key to Make Courage Contagious
MOBILIZE SUPPORT, ORCHESTRATE + CONVERT INTEREST INTO COMMITMENT – top-down, bottom-up, outside-in, inside-out. Enlarge your influence and impact with multiple decision-makers, champions, thought-partners and executors – so you are driving traction forward rather than waiting and hoping for support. Map the key players you’ll bring into your network and sphere of influence, to drive adoption rather than wait and hope for adoption. Click > Break free of silos + hierarchy traps. Expand Your Mobilization Map
ENGAGE DIVERSE + CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES SO ANTAGONISTS OPTIMIZE SUCCESS + SHARPEN DECISIONS. Boost your agility to profit from diverse perspectives, even when they rub you the wrong way or challenge your hegemony. Overcome mental traps that make some people trivialize real risks – or shy away from great opportunities. See past bias so you broaden appreciation of cultures and professions who have sensitivities, instincts and superpowers that are foreign to you. Use creative abrasion to open up better richer possibilities – and create a culture of working through key issues, even when it’s uncomfortable. Surface conflicts in a face-saving, let’s-work-together spirit for win-win-win optimal solutions, not zero-sums traps or risk-averse compromises Click > Engage Diverse Perspectives + Resolve Conflicts to Multiply Value Creation
DRIVE FOR SUCCESS: BENCHMARK ON S.M.A.R.T. AWESOME + RATIONAL TIME-BOUND METRICS TO CONVERT DREAMS INTO ACCOUNTABILITIES. S.M.A.R.T. Objectives and Key Results make your ambitions achievable and actionable – and equip you to build a culture of accountability. You’ll be able to set benchmarks, track progress and look beyond effort and activity – to focus on results, contributions, adoption and impact. Click > Commit to the Metrics that Show Sponsors + Buyers You’ll Deliver
THE WORK OS TO HOLD DISPERSED TEAMS ON BELAY. Make full use of connectivity with a Work OS like monday.com – to orchestrate support, track progress, pull through commitments and flag difficulties or complications before they become show-stoppers. How to use your Work OS to orchestrate with a culture of transparency, active involvement and accountability – so you drive toward value creation with buyers, internal teams, sponsors and external strategic partners. Click > See more on Work OS Onboarding + Participation
HIRE LARGE TO MOBILIZE THE NEW TALENT YOU NEED. Hiring requires you to get 3 things right. Due diligence, for a valid prediction about whether the star you think you attracted really can perform like a star. Recruitment, so you attract good diverse talent. And onboarding, so the star starts the job set up for success. Click > For a Quest that equips you to get these right
Courage Leadership Quests …
- … include coaching, online action learning and optional team workshops so your leaders learn by doing, and move from insight and skill-practice to action so they get more traction and faster impact
- … equip leaders to use the proven validated 5A courage-building formula – so they know what to do when they face Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Adversity (VUCA), to profit through turbulence
- … increase self-awareness – so leaders uplift, ennoble and bring out the best with diverse personalities, professions, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- … lead directly from insight to action and impact.
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