Learning and Reasoning
- Research: Using effective research strategies to not just gather any information, but the best information. This includes determining what constitutes legitimate research, effectively utilizing available resources when researching, and being able to navigate through the vast array of information to effectively find the necessary information.
- Systems Thinking: Making connections between individual parts in a system to anticipate how the relationships between these parts affect each part and the system as a whole. This type of thinking that recognizes the interrelationships of parts rather than looking at each discrete part within a larger system allows one to derive a solution that addresses the underlying problem and is less likely to have a negative impact on other parts of the system.
- Analysis: Dividing and examining information in detail to have a more comprehensive understanding of the information as a whole in an effort to identify causes, factors, features and impacts of the information.
- Idea Generation: Generating new ideas by expanding one’s thinking beyond convention in order to best address an issue. Going beyond one-size-fits-all.
- Productive Relationships: Cultivating connections or associations with others that contribute positively to the well-being of those involved in order to have a mutual support system and opportunity for meaningful exchange.
- Mentoring: Using one’s expertise and experience to teach, coach, share resources, and challenge individuals with less experience and/or knowledge so that they can reach their potential. Doing so is not just good for the individual, but developing the capacities of others could contribute to team productivity, a greater sense of trust, more group legitimacy and foster thoughtful succession planning.
- Empowerment: Sharing power, information, and resources with others so they can have a sense of ownership, accountability, and commitment regarding a task or process so as to lead to higher-quality work, greater timeliness and follow-through, and greater commitment to the task and team.
- Collaboration: Working with others toward a common objective through the sharing of ideas and distribution of responsibilities across team members in an effort to reach the objective most effectively.
- Listening: Engaging in strategies that assist one in accurately receiving a message that someone conveys through verbal communication in an effort to interpret the message as correctly as possible and show care and attention to the communicator.
- Facilitation: Effectively managing the group process during a meeting, presentation, or gathering without inputting one’s opinion by directing the flow of the discussion, asking prompt questions, and keeping the group on track in an effort to assist the group in reaching the best decision possible in the most productive and inclusive manner.
- Advocating for a Point of View: Effectively communicating one’s beliefs, opinions, or ideas so that others clearly and fully understand both the meaning and significance. Doing so to demonstrate one’s passion and commitment and/or influence the opinion of others.
- Vision: Developing a statement that defines the aspiration and direction of an individual, organization, or community to guide actions and decisions.
- Scope of Competence: Engaging in a task outside one’s capabilities can have harmful effects on others and organizations. Just as it is important to know one’s own strengths, skills and talents that one may bring to a situation, it just as vital for a leader to know what he or she does not bring to the situation. By recognizing one’s own limitations, the leader can engage in those tasks that he or she is capable of and refer those outside of his or her scope of competence to others more competent at the task at hand.
- Receiving Feedback: Considering feedback from others in an effort to develop one’s own capacity and increase effectiveness with others.
- Self-Development: Leaders are always learning. Engaging in self-development opportunities to achieve one’s fullest potential and benefit oneself and others.
- Power Dynamics: Identifying and effectively responding to the internal and external power dynamics that affect a group or organization.
- Others' Circumstances: Integrating an understanding or the conditions and/or situations of other individuals and/or groups into one’s behaviors to be inclusive and demonstrate a sense of care.
- Social Justice: Working toward a more equitable distribution of social power that creates a more fair and just society.
- Initiative: Taking charge of a situation, voluntarily and unprompted by others, especially when one has the expertise or opportunity to do so or when others are not able to.
- Follow-Through: Seeing things through to the end even in the face of adversity in an effort to carry out a commitment to complete a task as well as demonstrate trustworthiness and dependability.
- Resiliency: Bouncing back or recovering after a setback, for both one’s well-being and success as well as to be better able to face stress, challenges and adversity in the future.