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Breakthroughs with the Enneagram, Mary R. Bast, Ph.D. 
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As you explore The Center for Heroic Leadership's site you'll find the heroic journey is really built into your "leadership DNA" and you've been on your own heroic journey as a leader. All the Center's resources, including QuickStart implementation packages, are free, because their mission truly is to make a difference in the world. Click on their logo for more:

A brief sample of what's available:

  1. Planning or Beginning a Journey?

    • Get on Common Ground. Pull your core team together. Review the nature of the heroic journey and how you imagine that might look for you as your journey progresses. (What to expect)

    • Find the Leadership Leverage. Determine which leadership strategies will provide the greatest benefit. (What to do)

    • Assign Roles and Strategies. Discuss how the members of the team and the web of leaders you build will play the six core roles and execute the strategies. Some may play many roles and some may play a few or even just one. (How your leadership will look)

  2. Already in the Midst of a Journey?

    • Model Accountability. Pull your core leadership team together. Review the nature of the journey and the experience you've had to date, both good and bad. Identify what you can celebrate, what you've learned and where the threats and opportunities lie. 

    • Find the Leadership Leverage. Determine which leadership strategies will provide the greatest benefit. These will vary based on where you are on the journey and what you're experiencing, as well as what you expect. Give priority to those high leverage strategies and act quickly - without ignoring the other strategies.  

    • Attend to the Hotspots. Hotspots can be sources of major resistance, groups or specific efforts that are rapidly getting into trouble, people who have not recovered from being thrown into a journey of change or who have gotten worn out or discouraged, etc. They can also be areas of greatest opportunity. Focus on the hotspots without losing sight of the rest of the experience.

    • Attend to Your Leadership Web. Unless you did a great job putting together a core team and then expanding the web significantly (and maintaining it), there will be great opportunity for you here. 

Bring your best to your leadership challenges. Commit to leading change heroically for the health of your organization and community. Click on their logo for more: