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LC01. What are the three most important leadership behaviors?
Take Time. Make Agreements. Be Observant. These three simple yet demanding behaviors are the most important efforts in your growth towards being a person worth following: a true and authentic leader. In short, this is the leadership TAO.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC03. Are you being explicit about both performance and behavior?
Behavior needs to match performance in individuals and in teams. Doing what is right is not enough, it also matters HOW you do it. As a role model, you must walk and talk both the vertical performance line and the horizontal behavior line.(1) 5.0 average rating6 Lessons €30,00
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LC04. How do you capture your audience with engaging stories?
Always know your audience and have a story ready that makes sense to them. A story they can identify and connect with. Think quality over quantity - a good story is often short and problem solving, allowing you to elaborate where needed.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC05. What are you looking for in body language?
Reading and speaking body language is an essential part of effective communication. Reading, because body language is often a relevant first warning if something is not right. Speaking, because you can support or compromise your message profoundly.(1) 5.0 average rating8 Lessons €30,00
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LC06. How do you communicate across time and distance?
Working across distance requires you to pick the right media for each part of your communication; always strive for presence, visuals and greater bandwidth when emotions are involved. Building trust requires confirmation of both skill and will.9 Lessons €30,00
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LC07. How do you make strong agreements?
Motivating and clear agreements are perhaps the most important leadership tool there is. Without good agreements, there will be misunderstandings, delays, rework, and frustration. Always be ready to clarify purpose, product, and process.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC08. What do you always look when delegating?
Two dimensions stand out across a surprising number of leadership models: Skill and Will. Focusing on these is equally essential when helping a dependent team member and an independent stakeholder.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC09. How do you ask, and how well do you listen?
Do not load your questions; keep them open and listen carefully to the answers. In all aspects, be careful about your language and chose your words well; your words define the world around you and around those you lead.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC10. How do you give and receive impactful feedback?
Feedback is a present, carefully given to strengthen the relation. Frank feedback is essential for individuals, teams, and businesses. Without easy access to candid corrections, small problems will fester and become expensive conflicts.(1) 5.0 average rating7 Lessons €30,00
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LC11. What is the most important escalation step in a conflict?
Left without interventions, conflicts may escalate to the point where communication becomes impossible. As a leader, you need to separate a constructive disagreement from a conflict that just went personal; guide the talk back to the subject matter.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC12. How aware are you of the systems that run our split-second reactions?
During millions of years on the savannah, our brain learned it was smart to either fight, freeze or flee. Unfortunately, recent civilization has made these reactions rather impractical, and we need to teach our brain new split-second reactions.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC13. How do you make important conversations valuable and productive?
Focusing the goal of a conversation is key to setting your curiosity free; free to investigate reality in sufficient detail to discover motivating options. Expand and contract the conversation as necessary to keep respectful momentum.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC14. How do you lead and leverage cross-cultural collaboration?
Working across cultures is both exciting and challenging; use the catalytic definition to park your biases. The golden rule of preparation, respect and curiosity must be combined with the actions needed to “get good cultural grades".(1) 5.0 average rating9 Lessons €30,00
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LC15. How do you avoid negative surprises in your projects?
Engaging sooner rather than later is key to mature leadership. Do not postpone your interventions to a time, where small corrections have grown to big and costly problems. Use both deadline and duration when talking time in the triple constraint.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC16. How do you conduct your project's mandatory risk sessions?
Identifying and mitigating risks must become a more interactive and less biased team exercise that focuses on mitigation and catching outliers for new insights. Parallel placement of risks on a shared board may yield surprising results.5 Lessons €30,00
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LC17. How do you develop interdependent high-performance teams?
Like individuals, teams develop and grow through the shared struggle along the bottom of the transition curve. In the process they pass through Tuckman's four orming-phases: Forming, storming, norming and performing.10 Lessons €30,00
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LC18. How do you engage the critical stakeholders?
Project success is often tied to good communication and timely stakeholder management. Interested without power should be kept informed; powerful without interest must be satisfied - preferably engaged through empathic and meaningful questions.(1) 5.0 average rating6 Lessons €30,00
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LC19. How do you and those around you make decisions?
Decisions are often more personal than one would expect. Understand what level of information you need and which biases you are influenced by in order to make better decisions at the right time of any project.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC20. How do you make your meetings more engaging and effective?
Teams work through meetings. It is your responsibility to lead the way in making meetings engaging, meaningful and productive. Make sure you are ready with all the FACTS and plenty of co-creating rythm-breakers before you invite to the meeting.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC21. How to prepare for a critical team presentation?
A team's presentation preparation falls into three domains: The passionate story, the technical collaboration, and the interdependent delivery. Neglecting either will complicate on-the-spot adjustments and diminish the overall impact.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC22. How do you identify the newest options in an ongoing struggle?
A team's success is dependent upon its ability to deliver for its individual members. The reflective teamwork process focuses on finding new, unfiltered options while eliminating the tendency to play defense with past attempts.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC23. What are your core values and how do you express them?
LeapCard 23 focuses on identifying and expressing your values to define your leadership space. And to discover the core qualities of others in order to understand why even those who work well together sometimes end up in a conflict.(1) 4.0 average rating6 Lessons €30,00
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LC24. Is your life in balance between work and home?
How do you get your priorities right - professionally and privately? Establishing - and owning - the right balance will make your choices easier and more satisfying. LC24 01 05(2) 4.5 average rating9 Lessons €30,00
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LC31. How do you team members quickly get to know each other?
Ask your team members to draw their coat of arms on a flipchart. Divide the shield into four areas of background, personal life, professional challenge, and core beliefs. Share and see the added insight bond the team and make it more effective.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC32. How do you frame your individual learning goals?
Setting your learning goals is to define your development priorities. Delegate and let go of what is less needed. Be focused and plan away procrastination when working on the skills and behaviors that are both hard and needed more.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC34. How do you introduce yourself and avoid misunderstandings?
Offering stories and asking when in doubt, are two matching behaviors that will limit your chance of misunderstandings. Use the JoHari window to realize the need to be generous with examples and curious about observations.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC35. What is your burning, long-term, meaningful purpose?
Ikigai is about finding your True North that essential purpose of living that will help you make choices in all aspects of life. Focusing on the four areas is a pragmatic yet powerful tool to help you grow your leadership in ways worth following.(4) 4.5 average rating8 Lessons €30,00
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LC36. How do you seek the feedback needed for your development?
Seeking feedback is essential to personal development. Especially important during big transitions like moving up the career stages of leading self, leading others, and leading business. Behavior that was OK yesterday may no longer be appropriate.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC37. How do you fill the space and connect with your audience?
You must become both actor, director and set-maker to get your message across in a way that truly connects with your audience. Whether opening a meeting or presenting to thousands, working with your voice, gestures and space makes all the difference.9 Lessons €30,00
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LC38. How do you engage and lead from a distance?
Leading from a remote location requires you to find new ways of being "screen worthy" - staying personal, relevant, engaged, and robustly available while constantly supporting your team in new ways of working.(1) 5.0 average rating8 Lessons €30,00
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LC39. What are the best tips to balance great work from home?
Working from home is about clarity, time, and space. Define and visualize where you are focused and to which extent you will welcome distractions from colleagues and family members. Create rituals around the transitions as part of the communication.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC41. How do you develop sustainable performance?
As you develop your people, you direct new knowledge, coach frustration away, support self-confidence, and, finally, enjoy the opportunity to delegate individual tasks to motivated and capable co-workers.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC43. What do you use to compare market opportunities?
Regardless of your focus -- global products, internal services, or perhaps career qualifications -- a strategic offering requires both competitive comparison and internal evaluation. These classics must be part of all differentiation dialogues.5 Lessons €30,00
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LC45. How do you identify future opportunities and markets?
Start collecting reliable trends and leverage these to model future opportunities. Not as a bi-annual event but part of your ongoing leadership responsibilities. Superimpose the trends and discover what markets occur in the intersections.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC46. How do you compare the incomparable across time and markets?
By simplifying the y-dimension to high and low, the differentiation canvas from "Blue Ocean Strategy" allows for literarily anything to be compared. Connecting the dots creates distinct value curves that reveal the real extent of being different.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC47. How do you influence change? And with whom?
Leading change requires you to approach the right people with the right message. Seek to accelerate the ones who are perhaps only slightly in favor, their momentum will pull the doubters across. Offer benefits for skill and will at all three levels.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC48. How carefully do you plan your negotiation cycles?
Negotiation is a leadership discipline that taps into almost all other LeapCards - goals, boundaries, trust, stakeholders, escalation, conversation, listening, agreements, and appreciation. Rate them all to recognize exactly how ready you are.5 Lessons €30,00
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LC50. How often do you reflect on your own life and leadership?
How do you see yourself, your leadership, opportunities, relations, and goals? And how often? LeapCard 50 is unusual as the physical card has a reflective mirror; it is all about how you perceive and interpret yourself and your surroundings.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC60. Do you respect and stop at the yellow lights in traffic?
Taking chances of understanding is especially dangerous when working across cultures. Assumptions may lead to unnecessary conflicts where respectful curiosity could have opened up for new experiences. Learn to lead and react to yellow lights.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC62. How do you build trust and act with integrity?
Building trust is essential for long-term effective leadership; if they don't trust you, they will not follow you - especially across big gaps such as big change or cultural differences. Know yourself, the other and your stuff - fully!7 Lessons €30,00
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LC63. How can you measure the effect of training?
Measurements are the prerequisite of continuous improvement - and the best way to robust budget, individually and as a learning organization. Seek to lead behavior and business impact and consider easy standards and tools to visualize.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC64. How do you close an important learning event?
As with pain, people remember meetings in peaks and closing. You have to reserve and protect the time for a meaningful wrap-up and smile. Proper closing involves taking time to learn, to improve, and to commit to new actions.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC65. How do you offer and anchor personal commitments?
All development is dependent on clear goals and commitment, preferably in a public format that forces continued focus. You have to define what you want, and what you will let go of, and you have to do so in active unambiguous language.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC67. What comes first, new business or new culture?
Finding the right path to cultural change is essential for success. At times new opportunities may re-create the culture - and vice versa. Regardless, role model behavior and positive reinforcement by the leader are necessary for any change.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC71. How do you lead complexity?
Complexity is often a fine source of business opportunity and knowing how to lead the three essential types is a critical competitive advantage. Likewise, you may benefit from accepting that there is a limit to what systems can do for you!4 Lessons €30,00
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LC72. How do you design full-fledged corporate programs?
Designing a development program starts with the imperative and current reason. After that consider target audience, read-thread baseline up-and-down the hierarchy, topic content, delivery format, and economy. When remote, consider where and how.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC73. What may help teams to break down silo thinking?
For a team to perform, the members must become interdependent, trusting each other enough to give up on personal ideas (and egos). For an organization to perform this trust and care must happen across teams, breaking down silos.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC74. Which new ways of working should your team consider?
A key towards team performance is to let preferred individual behaviors automatically inform and update fellow team members. While easy in the office, it is more difficult when working remotely. For this, you need centralized kanban boards.5 Lessons €30,00
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LC76. How do you continuously make the best decisions?
Working with a decision framework helps you prepare and make ever better decisions, characterized by greater buy-in and fewer reversals.7 Lessons €30,00
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LC77. What may the 4Ms of message, motivation, media, and manner do for you?
In all communication, use the brief amber traffic lights to test your opening statement and reason for being there. With sufficient purpose, proceed to the message, motivation, media, and manner - all four are needed for effective communication.9 Lessons €30,00
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LC84. How to summarize the business model on a single page?
The business model canvas offers a comprehensive overview centered on your value proposition. Everything surrounding must be made to support - from partners and activities to clients and markets, all on top of acknowledged cost and5 Lessons €30,00
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LC86. How do you make thinking feel like doing?
Thinking beats planning and doing. Discovering and including all aspects in a mindmap may not only help you to a better overview it will also offer the tangible product that makes the thinking feel like doing.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC93. What are the steps towards a strong safety culture?
Safety merges with culture when it becomes "the way we do business around here". Getting there requires the deliberate use of engagement and accountability across five steps: From pathological, reactive, and calculative to proactive and generative.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC95. Where is remote working headed to?
Working remotely has been around for more than a hundred years. The next 10 will see dramatic changes in digital information layered upon our reality (AR), visits to immersed digital spaces (VR), and remote mobility in true moving presence.6 Lessons €30,00
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LC96. How do you prepare and open an important online event?
First impressions count and getting off to a good start is especially important when leading remote events and meetings. You need to reset your workspace, balance your views, and be ready to effortlessly connect socially before your opening words.8 Lessons €30,00
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LC97. What is the essential where and how of remote leadership?
Moving meetings into online places like Teams and Zoom only addresses WHERE you meet, you also need to consider HOW you meet. Many rituals and performance processes that are natural in the physical room need to be reconsidered to work remotely.7 Lessons €30,00
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