INTENTIONAL PURPOSEFUL ACTION

How have you led with purpose?

Inspiring Others

Excites and motivates individuals, teams, or organizations; demonstrates and ignites passion and purpose.

• What does it mean to inspire others?

• How does it make you feel when you inspire others?

• Who inspires you?

• What can you do to be more inspirational?

• Can you describe a time you inspired someone else to achieve success?

Side Three: The Adaptable Side of the Box

A leader who cultivates belonging excels in adaptability. Here we focus on the leadership competencies that drive us to work in a perpetual state of graceful and fluent recalibration.

This side of the box addresses three competencies that influence and dictate our ability to be adaptable: learning from experience, navigating ambiguity, and displaying creativity.

Learning from Experience: Making intentional adjustments by applying what is learned from previous experiences shows a willingness to remain open without rigidity or attachment to what you’ve known to be true in the past. When we are open to past experiences, we can increase our capacity to understand and expand space for others.

Navigating Ambiguity: Leaders must become adept at recognizing what is important to focus on while successfully working with limited, emerging, uncertain, or missing information. The velocity of change and the increasing numbers of inputs elevate the uncertainty of the environments where we operate. Successfully navigating ambiguity is one of the leadership qualities most aligned with sustainable forward movement.

Displaying Creativity: Leaders must challenge current ways of thinking that lessen our inhibitions and worn pathways, with the goal of opening us up for fresh approaches. The adaptable leader accepts that displaying creativity is in fact innovation, even in the form of communication, organizational design, finance, problem solving, space utilization, or human interaction. Creativity doesn’t always have to look or feel creative—rather, it is the energy that brings new possibility.

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