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Start with Self: Foundations of Leadership Development Exercises
List your ten most important values, then speed-rank them in two minutes. Now imagine a tough trade-off between your top two and journal your choice. Share your top values and your reflection below.
Communicate to Connect: Exercises for Clear, Human Leadership
In your next one-on-one, listen for words, emotions, and unstated needs. Reflect back each level in one sentence. Ask if you captured it. Share how this shifted trust and the quality of the conversation.
Trust and Team Rhythm: Exercises That Turn Groups into Crews
With your team, pick a task and choose a delegation level from informing to full ownership. Clarify what support looks like and how success will be measured. Share which levels you chose and why they fit.
Trust and Team Rhythm: Exercises That Turn Groups into Crews
Create a simple map of who relies on whom this month. Circle bottlenecks and discuss one change to lighten the load. Repeat weekly. Post your biggest surprise and one quick win that improved flow.
Ethics in Action: Exercises for Principled Leadership
Draft a realistic dilemma where speed conflicts with quality. List stakeholders, harms, and benefits. Choose a principle to prioritize and justify it. Comment with your scenario and how your principle guided action.
Sketch what each stakeholder sees, feels, fears, and hopes. Identify a smallest viable concession that preserves integrity. Share your map highlights and the micro-commitment you will propose during your next conversation.
Write three non-negotiables for your leadership. Define the behaviors you will not cross and how you will respond if pressured. Post your charter headline and invite peers to hold you publicly accountable.
Coach and Be Coached: Feedback Exercises That Actually Work
Use situation, behavior, and impact to give precise feedback in under ninety seconds. Ask the receiver to summarize what they heard. Share your script and one phrase that made acceptance easier and faster.
Think Beyond the Quarter: Strategic Leadership Exercises
Future-Back Mapping
Define your ideal three-year impact. Work backward by quarter, naming capabilities, risks, and signals. Identify the first small step you can take this week. Share your starting step and invite accountability partners.
Constraint War-Gaming
Simulate a surprise constraint like budget cuts or regulatory shifts. Design a plan that still achieves outcomes. Debrief what stayed essential versus optional. Comment with your most creative move and its trade-offs.
Assumption Bonfire
List your top assumptions about customers, competitors, and teammates. Choose one to test within seven days using a simple experiment. Report the result and how it changed your roadmap or resource allocation.