The Core Collection

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~ Demonstrate behaviors that underpin the 3A Model

~ Help the other person in the conversation feel heard, respected, expanded, and committed

~ Build trust and increase transparency

~ Strengthen relationships and reduce conflict

~ Enhance a supportive environment

~ Foster collaboration & innovation

~ Construct concise & relevant messages

~ Deliver messages in organized & compelling fashions

~ Use appropriate expressions, gestures, and body language

~ Incorporate meaningful visual aids

~ Address questions with calm & confidence

~ Manage the emotions that can accompany public speaking

~ Create an environment of trust

~ Participate effectively in the work of groups/teams 

~ Successfully engage in sharing leadership

~ Demonstrate strategies of influence 

~ Apply informed approaches to conflict situations

~ Employ techniques for meaningful meetings

~ Understand a variety of visual tools

~ Focus communication by visually depicting metaphors and mental models

~ Use tools to visually convey thinking to others

~ Visually synthesize information and clearly share knowledge

~ Identify connections within the larger system through simple visuals

~ Engage colleagues and stakeholders

~ Build trust, leading to responsible risk taking and bolder ideas

~ Employ tools for awareness

~ Navigate influences on their perspectives

~ Bridge the intent vs. impact gap

~ Adapt their mindset

~ Align expectations

~ Demonstrate effective and situationally appropriate leadership behaviors

~ Inspire and motivate others

~ Contrast different alternatives to solve a problem

~ Question assumptions to make decision-making processes more effective

~ Consider other agendas and points of view with an open mind

~ Embrace uncertain situations with confidence and the ability to imagine the future

~ Calibrate the role that context plays in the decision-making process

~ Practice effective idea generation and idea comparison

~ Navigate unexpected challenges successfully with an imaginative approach

~Assess levels of VUCA to identify sources/causes in the external environment

~ Discern barriers to addressing VUCA

~ Reframe volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in context

~ Demonstrate habits of mind to succeed in complexity

~ Distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges

~ Leverage self-awareness and self-regulation

~ Outline various ways in which a problem can be framed

~ Suspend initial judgment when faced with a problem

~ Uncover the problem’s deeper human and systemic dimensions

~ Hone in on the practice of continuously improving the framing of the problem

~ Discern the individual and collective dimensions of complex problems

~ Foster a sense of control and confidence in understanding complex problems in context