Set your own roadmap for working toward exemplary leadership – Use professional analogies to identify skills and practices you can develop
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Why take this challenge?
Use analogy and alternative perspectives to gain new insight into your potential
Create the basis for a novel and exciting self-development plan
Build your leadership skills
I love the idea of ‘Mastery’. Not in terms of any sense of dominance, but in the sense of that almost magical connection that forms between what you want to do and it actually occurring as you imagined.
The way that, when we see true mastery at work, amazing things just seem to happen. How a brilliant artist can in a few stokes render not only pictures but emotions within us.
The idea of Michelangelo freeing his angel from the marble. What Michelin starred chefs achieve with food. And the way that Foyle calmly puts things to right in his war.
But we all have goals and imagination. We all have canvasses we are working upon.
In my case, it is the difference that I want to make to those around me. How I leave them feeling. What they are able to think and do differently. A greater sense of connection between their potential and their reality.
And I guess many of you work on very similar canvases. So what might mastery in our art mean to us? And what can we learn from other Master Craftsmen that may be of help to us on our journey toward that?
+ Green track - taking it in your stride
+ Blue track - a bit of a workout (click to open)
+ Red track - stepping up to bat (click to open)
You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop
- Thoughts on modelling mastery (Please do not read until you have completed the green track – the insight you gain from your own list will work far better if you don’t see mine first)
- Template for a Mastery pursuit plan
- The end of History Illusion – an exploration into one of the key barriers to self-directed development
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