Single Skill Dependency
Having an over-dependence on a single skill can become a shadow competency, blindspot, or career roadblock in several ways:
Limited career opportunities, inability to adapt to change, limited networking opportunities, a narrow perspective and reduced job security. This class helps you avoid to encounter this road block.
Future Focus
Future focus is the ability to anticipate future trends, scenarios, and possibilities, and to prepare for them effectively. It’s not about predicting the future; it’s about understanding the potential directions the future could take, and being ready for those possibilities. An essential class.
Authenticity
Authenticity means you’re true to your own personality, values, and spirit, regardless of the pressure that you’re under to act otherwise. You’re honest with yourself and with others, and you take responsibility for your mistakes. Your values, ideals, and actions align. This class helps you to get more authentic.
Humility
Humility refers to the quality of being humble, open to feedback, and willing to learn from others. Leaders who possess humility are able to acknowledge their limitations and mistakes, and are willing to listen to feedback and learn from others. They are not afraid to admit when they do not know something, and they are open to new ideas and perspectives. We will discuss in this class how to grow your humility professionally.
Systems Optimization
As a career competency, systems optimization involves the ability to analyze and optimize workflows and processes in order to achieve desired outcomes. It means being able to identify inefficiencies and roadblocks in existing systems, and to develop and implement solutions that improve productivity and effectiveness. This class helps you with key insights and techniques.
Political Missteps
Political missteps in the workplace can damage relationships, create a negative perception, limit career opportunities, contribute to a negative workplace culture, and even lead to legal consequences, ultimately stalling one’s career progression and hindering professional growth.
Situational Adaptability
Being situationally adaptive in terms of career competency means having the ability to adjust one’s behavior, approach, or skillset in response to changing circumstances, challenges, or expectations in a professional context. Let’s explore how to grow this competency.
Poor Administration
A poor administrator, characterized by inefficiency, poor time management, inability to delegate, and negative impact on teamwork, can significantly hamper career development. These weaknesses may lead to decreased productivity, missed deadlines, burnout, team discord, and overlooked promotion opportunities. Improving these skills is crucial for career advancement and organizational contribution.
Conflict Management
This class dives deep into the strategies and techniques used to resolve disagreements, disputes, or differences of opinion among individuals or groups, such as the role of emotion in conflict, conflict management styles, active listening, effective communication, problem-solving approach and negotiation skills.
Organizational Insight
Organizational insight refers to a deep understanding of the inner workings, culture, and dynamics of an organization. This class is designed to help individuals understand organizations better, predict their behavior, and make better informed decisions.
Influencing
Influencing in an organizational and leadership context is about the ability to persuade, motivate, and inspire others to act in a particular way. It is an important aspect of leadership, as leaders are often called upon to influence others to support their vision, goals, and initiatives.
Integrity
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It’s about doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. It’s like being your own referee in the game of life. In this class we will examine how to grow your integrity.
Inventiveness
Inventive leaders are able to identify opportunities for growth and find new and innovative ways to solve problems. They are often able to create a culture of innovation within their organization, encouraging others to think creatively and take risks.
By coming up with new and innovative ideas, individuals can demonstrate their ability to think critically and solve complex problems. This class will grow your inventiveness.
Operational Bias
Having an operational bias, being non-strategic, marked by lack of vision, poor planning, limited decision-making, lack of innovation, and inability to see the big picture, can inhibit career growth. These shortcomings can lead to directionlessness, missed opportunities, hesitations, stagnation, and a lack of understanding of organizational goals, limiting professional advancement opportunities.
Prioritization
Prioritization involves the ability to identify and focus on the most important tasks or objectives. It involves making informed decisions about which tasks to tackle first, and which to defer or delegate to others. This class offers the right methodologies and techniques to get better organized.
Planning
Planning is a vital competency that significantly impacts personal and professional success. Effective planning entails setting appropriate objectives, identifying potential risks, mapping out a clear path, and being flexible to adapt to changes. In this class we will discuss and practice all of these skills.
Me
While many people may think of self-care as solely a personal or private matter, it can also be viewed as a professional competency that is necessary for effective leadership, and purposeful, intentional career development.
Self-care involves taking deliberate and proactive steps to manage one’s physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Let’s explore how.
Social Justice
Social justice is about recognizing and addressing the ways in which systems of power and privilege can impact opportunities and outcomes for different individuals and communities. It involves actively creating more equitable and inclusive work environments and outcomes, regardless of an individual’s race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics. A critical class these days.
Talent Development
Talent development is at the core of managing your people. Offering the right place to grow. Getting the best out of them. Coach them, mentor them. And ensuring succession of critical roles is in place. A fully packed class with great impact.
Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. It’s about facing your fears and taking action despite those fears. Courage goes beyond physical bravery; it’s also about emotional and moral courage – standing up for what you believe in, even when it’s difficult or unpopular. This class explores how.
Work Direction
Work Direction is about the ability to set clear goals, delegate tasks, and manage your time and resources effectively. In this class we will delve in the techniques to develop your competency in these areas.
Action Orientation
If you are highly action-oriented, you’re the type of person who gets things done, whether on your own or through other people. You make good on your own commitments, and you make sure that other people do as well. Whatever you need to do for a project, you follow through on it. A class to step up your action orientation.
Communication
Effective communication: one of the core competencies to develop. It’s about clearly and accurately conveying information and ideas, as well as to listen actively and understand the perspectives and needs of others. In this fully packed class we teach you the key components of effective communication.
Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking is like a mental workout. It’s all about coming up with fresh ideas and unique opportunities that can give a person or a company an edge over others. The main aim? To help them achieve their long-term goals more efficiently and effectively. This class helps you become a strategic thinker within your role.
Self-awareness
People who possess a high degree of self-awareness are able to recognize their own biases, limitations, and blind spots, and to work to address these areas of weakness. This can help them communicate more effectively with others, build stronger relationships, and make better decisions. This class uncovers the key steps to become more self-aware.
Growth Mindset
A growth mindset refers to a belief that your abilities, intelligence, and talents can be developed through hard work, dedication, and a willingness to learn. People with a growth mindset believe that they can grow and improve, and that challenges and failures are opportunities to learn and develop. Let’s explore how in this class.
Mastering Followership
A poor follower disregards leadership and organizational governance, leading to trust erosion, poor performance, and decreased accountability. This defiance can limit career advancement opportunities, as employers value integrity and responsibility. Following governance is crucial for building trust, expanding opportunities, and ensuring long-term organizational success. This class helps you avoid becoming a reluctant follower.
Trust
Trust in the workplace means your colleagues enjoy a culture of honesty, psychological safety, and mutual respect. They’re proud of where they work and are more willing to go above and beyond for your organization. You know how to instill trust in your environment. This class gives you the key ingredients to grow trust.
Ambiguity Adaptiveness
Being adaptive to ambiguity means having the ability to navigate and thrive in situations where the information, parameters, or goals are uncertain, unclear, or constantly changing. It is the capacity to handle and even embrace the unknown, complex, and unpredictable aspects of a situation. We’ll explore how to grow your ambiguity adaptiveness in this class.
Business Sense
Business Sense is an understanding of how a business works and how decisions can affect a company’s performance. It includes understanding business models, strategies, and financials, as well as market dynamics, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. We will discuss these topics and offer a good intro to each.
Heartfulness
A heart-centered approach to leadership and career involves aligning one’s actions with a sense of purpose and passion, and being guided by personal values and principles. It means operating from a place of authenticity, empathy, and compassion, and prioritizing the well-being of others. An inspiring class.
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness is the art of finding and utilizing resources effectively to reach our goals or solve problems. It’s about being creative, thinking critically, and solving problems in ways others might not consider. In this class we will explore how improve your resourcefulness.
Sustainability
Sustainability is all about balancing our needs today, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. This involves taking a long-term view about our impact on the environment, society, and the economy. Let’s learn how to make it part of our roles.
Tech Savviness
Being technology savvy means having a good understanding and familiarity with technology and its various applications. It refers to being knowledgeable about the latest technological advancements relevant for your type of activity or field of knowledge, like AI. This class offers guidance on how to become or remain tech savvy.
Impact
Impact is the ability to create meaningful and positive change through one’s actions, decisions, and work. It is a valuable skill for leadership and career development because it allows individuals to contribute to a greater purpose, make a difference in the world, and create a legacy that inspires others. Let’s explore how to find your personal mission and how you can have your impact.
Storytelling
Storytelling is the art of communicating ideas, messages, or information through narratives that captivate attention and ignite imagination. People ask for data, but believe stories. There’s a special quality to a story told well and the natural impact it has on others. In this class we will offer the key steps to make story telling a natural way of communicating for you.
Project Management
Independent from your job, you will be involved into projects, either as a leader or a participant. How to make it most effective and efficient? This class reviews the core techniques to manage and participate in projects most effectively.
EQ
Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. This class delves particularly into self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
Curiosity
Curiosity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and learning. It encourages us to explore, discover, and question the world around us. Without curiosity, we would never step out of our comfort zones or strive to understand things beyond our immediate perceptions. Take this class to get more curious professionally.
Advocate Dependence
Advocate dependency is when one relies excessively on a supporter, mentor, or advocate within an organization for their progress, success, and identity. While having a mentor is beneficial, over-reliance can hinder personal growth and carries the risk of being left without support if the advocate leaves the organization. Let’s explore how to avoid this pitfall.
Resiliency
Resiliency is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. It’s a personal attribute that allows individuals to remain mentally tough and bounce back from adversity. In this class we help you build your resiliency.
Blocked Learner
Being blocked as a learner in the workplace can hinder skill development, create resistance to change, prevent learning from mistakes, limit problem-solving abilities, and cultivate a negative reputation. These barriers can restrict career advancement and negatively affect work efficiency and collaboration.
Ownership
Ownership is about taking responsibility for your own success, and to hold yourself and others accountable for achieving specific outcomes. You are able to inspire and motivate others to take ownership of their work, and to work collaboratively to achieve shared goals. You are also willing to take risks, and to learn from their successes and failures, in order to achieve their desired outcomes. An essential class.
Complexity Management
Complexity management is about being able to handle and deal with difficult and complicated situations and problems effectively. It involves understanding them, finding ways to navigate through them, and coming up with appropriate responses. This class will get you both theory and practice on how to step up your competency in this area.
RQ
Relationship Intelligence is the ability to understand, interpret, and respond appropriately to social cues, to build positive relationships, and to influence others effectively. This class takes a closer look at skills like empathy, active listening, effective communication, and conflict resolution.
CQ
Cultural intelligence is to understand, appreciate, and work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds. The class covers a set of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills and abilities that enable individuals to adapt to different cultural situations and navigate cross-cultural interactions effectively.
Persistence
Persistence is about remaining focused on a goal or task and to continue to work towards it despite obstacles, setbacks, or challenges. It involves the willingness to persevere through difficult times and to remain committed to achieving a specific objective. Let’s explore how to grow your persistence.
Team building
Team building is the process of creating a strong and effective team dynamic among a group of individuals who work together towards a common goal. This class includes activities and exercises that help to improve communication, collaboration, trust, and problem-solving skills among team members.
Conviction
Conviction is a firmly held belief or opinion. It’s the confidence that what you believe is true, even in the face of opposition. This competency is vital in decision-making, leadership, and personal development. In this class we will explore how to grow your conviction, so you can follow your goals more effectively.