LeapCards™

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. Full

LC34. How do you introduce yourself and avoid misunderstandings?

To reduce misunderstandings, share stories and ask. questions when unsure, and use the JoHari window to be open and inquisitive about observations. Top36 Full 36

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. Stay focused and plan to avoid procrastination when developing key skills. Full

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 unique with its reflective surface, highlighting your perception of yourself and your surroundings. Full

LC04. How do you capture your audience with engaging stories?

Know your audience and share a story they can connect with. Quality over quantity - a short, problem-solving story is best. Top36 Full 36

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. Using your voice, gestures, and space is key when presenting, whether to a few or to thousands. Full

LC77. What may the 4Ms of message, motivation, media, and manner do for you?

Use amber lights to test your opening. Then, proceed with the message, motivation, media, and manner for effective communication. Top36 Full 36

LC58. Communication Styles and Trust

This card offers an overview of the four different communication styles as well as some strategies to consider when you want or need to generate a climate of trust. Full

LC20. How do you make your meetings more engaging and effective?

Teams should lead engaging, productive meetings by preparing facts and co-creating rhythm-breakers in advance. Top36 Full 36

LC15. How do you avoid negative surprises in your projects?

Please act quickly for mature leadership. Take your time with minor issues that become significant and costly. Use both deadline and duration for time in the triple constraint. Top36 Full 36

LC10. How do you give and receive impactful feedback?

Honest feedback is essential for relationships, teams, and businesses. Without it, minor issues escalate into expensive conflicts. Top36 Full 36

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. Full

LC41. How do you develop sustainable performance?

As you develop your team, you impart knowledge, coach through frustration, bolster self-confidence, and ultimately delegate tasks to motivated, skilled co-workers. Top36 Full 36

LC08. What do you always look when delegating?

Two key dimensions in many leadership models are Skill and Will. It's crucial to focus on both when assisting both dependent team members and independent stakeholders. Top36 Full 36

LC01. What are the three most important leadership behaviors?

To become a true and authentic leader, it's essential to practice taking time, making agreements, and being observant. Top36 Full 36

LC07. How do you make strong agreements?

Clear agreements are vital for good leadership. They prevent misunderstandings, delays, and frustration. Leaders must always clarify purpose, product, and process. Top36 Full 36

LC09. How do you ask, and how well do you listen?

Always ask open questions and listen attentively. Choose your words wisely as they shape your reality and influence others. Top36 Full 36

LC13. How do you make important conversations valuable and productive?

Steering a conversation's focus unlocks curiosity, enabling a deep dive into reality to uncover motivating options. Top36 Full 36

LC05. What are you looking for in body language?

Body language is crucial to effective communication. It can reveal issues and either support or weaken your message. Top36 Full 36

LC12. How aware are you of the systems that run our split-second reactions?

Our brains evolved to fight, freeze, or flee on the savannah, but these instincts are often impractical today. We must teach our brains new, rapid responses. Top36 Full 36

LC11. What is the most important escalation step in a conflict?

Unaddressed conflicts can escalate and make communication impossible. As a leader, differentiate between constructive disagreements and personal conflicts. Top36 Full 36

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. Full

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. Full

LC28. Look Out For Burnout

Your guide to thriving as young leaders. Enhance concentration, confidence, and overcome procrastination. Tackle impatience and recognize burnout signs. Be resilient and unstoppable! Full

LC33. How to lead authentically and prioritize well-being for success?

Align personal values with professional duties for authentic leadership. Use the Eisenhower Matrix for task management and prioritize well-being for success. Lite

LC06. How do you communicate across time and distance?

Effective remote communication depends on choosing the appropriate media and prioritizing presence and visuals, especially for emotional content. Full

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. Full

LC97. What is the essential where and how of remote leadership?

Meeting online requires rethinking how you conduct them, not just where. Many physical meeting rituals and processes may translate poorly to remote settings. Top36 Full 36

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. Full

Module 2

LC17. How do you develop interdependent high-performance teams?

Teams grow through struggles, moving through Tuckman's phases: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. Top36 Full 36

LC222. How effectively do you lead your teams? What kind of team player are you?

Based on what Patrick Lencioni has researched and developed, understand and (self-)assess how your work within your team, as a leader and as a member of them team. Full

LC62. How do you build trust and act with integrity?

Trust is essential for lasting leadership; followers need to trust you, especially during major changes or across cultural differences. It's crucial to understand yourself, others, and your field. Top36 Full

LC27. How does psychological safety foster innovation and accountability?

LeapCard 27 emphasizes "Psychological Safety," balancing innovation with a supportive, accountable environment for team growth. Top36 Full

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). FFor an organization to build trust, teams must show care and break down silos. Full

LC22. How do you identify the newest options in an ongoing struggle?

A team's success hinges on delivering for its members, emphasizing reflective teamwork to explore new options and avoid dwelling on past attempts. Top36 Full 36

LC57 - How much of a secure Base leader are you and what does it require?

This card introduces you to the concept of Secure Base Leadership as designed by George kohlerieser. It is about instilling trust and enhancing the potential of your team to make it thrive. Full

LC59. What styles or modes do we tend to use when dealing with conflicts of interests?

What happens when interests are clashing? How do you then preferable and/or naturally react? This card help you to discover your mode and offers you options on how to deal with conflicts of interests. Full

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. Full

LC14. How do you lead and leverage cross-cultural collaboration?

Working across cultures is exciting yet challenging. It's crucial to put aside biases and focus on preparation, respect, and curiosity, plus actionable steps for cultural success. Top36 Full

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. Leaders must model positive behavior to drive change. Full

LC47. How do you influence change? And with whom?

To effectively lead change, target the right people and offer incentives for skill and motivation at all levels. You can focus on accelerating those lagging, as their momentum will be favorable. Top36 Full

LC83. Kotter's 8 Steps

Master the art of change with Kotter's 8-step model. Explore the proven recipe for transformation and equip yourself with essential tools for effective change management. Full

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. Full

LC85. Marshmallow Prototyping

A challenge awaits leaders in training: build the tallest freestanding structure in 18 minutes. Hone problem-solving skills and collaborative prowess in this dynamic exercise of innovation and teamwork. Lite

LC113. How can PMO structure blend with founder mentality for high-performing teams?

LeapCard 113 compares disciplined project management with the innovative drive of a founder's approach to leadership.

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 to make better decisions at the right time of any project. Full

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. Top36 Full 36

LC177. How does your leadership action plan impact you, your team, and the organization?

LeapCard 177 assists leaders in mapping development actions and their expected outcomes across multiple levels, promoting focused thinking on the desired changes and their impact. Lite

Module 3

LC125. What are some suggested ways to navigate a VUCA world?

LeapCard 125 provides leadership strategies for a VUCA² environment. Embrace challenges, simplify, leverage strengths, predict, and co-create. Full

LC61. What are the key advantages of employing project control approaches?

LeapCard 61 offers a structured project management approach, featuring steps, the MoSCoW prioritization method, and incorporating PDCA cycle insights. Lite

LC251. If you are setting off on a journey, is it not helpful to have a Roadmap?

This LeapCard will guide you through the 8 steps of the project roadmap, ensuring a successful outcome. Full

LC252. Project Control Tools

This LeapCard provides guidance to help you steer your project and stay on course, even when receiving input from stakeholders. Full

LC253. Estimating Time and Costs

Effective communication and guidance give stakeholders clarity on what's known and unknown in a project. Leaders must balance confidence with realism, projecting assurance while navigating future uncertainties pragmatically.Full

LC18. How do you engage the critical stakeholders?

Good communication and stakeholder engagement are crucial for project success. Keep the interested informed and engage the powerful through thoughtful questioning. Top36 Full 36

LC93. What are the steps towards a strong safety culture?

Getting there requires the deliberate use of engagement and accountability across five steps: From pathological, reactive, and calculative to proactive and generative. Full

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. Overlay the trends to find intersecting markets. Full

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 anything to be compared. Connecting the dots creates unique value curves that show differentiation. Full

LC82. Circle Of Influence

Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" highlights the need to distinguish between your circle of influence and circle of interest, emphasizing that effective leaders take ownership of meaningful goals. Full

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. Clearly define what you want and what to let go of. Full

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LC03. Are you being explicit about both performance and behavior?

Performance must match actions, and doing right requires more. Leading by example in your actions and behavior is crucial as a role model. Top36 Full 36

LC23. What are your core values and how do you express them?

LeapCard 23 focuses on recognizing and articulating personal values for leadership and understanding others' key traits to explain conflicts in compatible teams. Top36 Full 36

LC78. How are story types categorized along two axes for effective storytelling?

Leaders should use storytelling, choosing from a variety of story types ranging from factual evidence to future visions and metaphors to emotionally connect with audiences. Top36 Full 36

LC66. How to improve with 'Fuel vs. Friction' and 'innovation by reduction'?

The text provides a guide for leaders to inspire sustainable change within an organization by adopting a "less is more" philosophy and documenting the journey. Top36 Full

LC218. Can anonymous voting ensure everyone's input is valued equally?

LeapCard 218 enables anonymous team voting and decision-making through colored rectangles and numbered options

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