1. Understand the role and dynamics of self-awareness and self-efficacy in leadership effectiveness
2. Sense, feel, and reflect on different cognitive and somatic states and whether they are effective and appropriate to the moment
3. Know what triggers and derails specific states and what inspires and elevates other states
4. Reach and embody specific states to produce desired outcomes (e.g. control or empathy)
5. Use mindset and embodiment practices to shift between various states (e.g. openness, curiosity, humility vs. certainty, focus, confidence)
6. Understand the role and dynamics of emotions and somatic sensations in leadership effectiveness
7. Seek to feel and understand anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations rather than repress, suppress, numb, or act out
8. Track how anxious and destabilizing emotions and bodily sensations change and translate them into words for sharing
9. Regulate emotions and bodily sensations, particularly when feeling upset, overwhelmed, or shut down
10. Transform anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations into energizing and stabilizing emotions and somatic sensations
11. Understand the role and dynamics of limiting vs. liberating cognitive biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections in leadership effectiveness
12. Reflect on own cognitive biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections and identify where they may be inaccurate
13. Give up being right and certain about biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections in order to be curious and creative
14. Consistently and kindly challenge own and others limiting biases, beliefs, assumptions, self-talk, and projections
15. Transform limiting biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections to be liberating/empowering
16. Understand the role of ineffective/sabotaging vs. effective/serving behaviors and habits in leadership effectiveness
17. Identify when reacting to challenges with stress response behaviors—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (people pleasing)—and move to change
18. Take responsibility for ineffective/sabotaging behaviors and habits rather than blaming, shaming, or complaining
19. Identify and release the somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors that constitute ineffective/sabotaging habits
20. Accelerate the building of effective/serving habits through cultivating specific somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors
21. Understand the role and dynamics of physical, psychological, and existential stress and resilience in leadership effectiveness
22. Build robustness to bounce back quickly from challenges, crises, disappointments, and frustrations
23. Spot early physical and psychological signals of overwhelm and course correct through self-care
24. Identify what most impacts personal resilience and utilize recovery practices to reduce overwhelm, exhaustion, and stress
25. Proactively build physical, psychological, and existential resilience to unlock sustained high performance
26. Understand the impact of, and the importance of transforming, difficult emotions and memories in leadership effectiveness
27. Accept difficult emotions and memories, potentially from traumatic experiences, and seek peer and professional support when appropriate
28. Engage with tools and practices that can help to process and release difficult emotions and memories
29. Engage with tools and practices that can help to transform and heal difficult emotions and memories to unlock stored-up energy, aliveness, and potency that is blocked by trauma
30. Consciously cultivate more self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness to accelerate the journey of grieving, healing, and becoming more whole
31. Understand the roles of attention, time, energy, and boundary management in leadership effectiveness
32. Manage attention effectively by reducing noise, minimizing multi-tasking, and avoiding overwhelm
33. Manage time effectively to prioritize specific outcomes, goals, and value
34. Manage energy effectively to maintain strength to engage in crises, challenges, and change
35. Manage boundaries effectively to ensure the necessary time, attention, and energy for reflection, connection, and creativity
36. Understand the roles of agency and a growth mindset in leadership effectiveness
37. Self-initiate goals, self-motivate action, and self-correct activities to achieve desired results
38. Celebrate courage, persistence, and effort as much as results and success
39. Leverage mistakes, meltdowns, and breakdowns as opportunities to learn and transform
40. Cultivate a childlike sense of curiosity, humility, and possibility in the face of challenge, change, and crisis
41. Understand the role and value of archetypes and sub-personalities in leadership effectiveness
42. Discover and honor the qualities and capabilities of established archetypes and sub-personalities
43. Uncover and unleash the qualities and capabilities of lost, hidden, and frozen archetypes and sub-personalities
44. Identify when addicted or allergic to the qualities and capabilities of a specific archetype or sub-personality
45. Integrate emerging archetypes and sub-personalities to constantly upgrade leadership effectiveness
46. Understand the role and dynamics of breakthroughs, transformations, and stage transitions in leadership effectiveness
47. Be accountable for own development, initiating interventions and/or seeking support when challenged, plateauing, or losing effectiveness
48. Metabolize significant change, crises, and challenges into development breakthroughs, transformations, and stage transitions
49. Harness practice, tools, and experiences to accelerate leadership breakthroughs, transformations, and stage transitions in self and others
50. Integrate breakthroughs, transformations, and stage transitions to constantly upgrade leadership effectiveness
