What can you do to best position yourself to improve your capacity to lead and create opportunities for four-way wins?

 
 
 
 
 
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Why were Tom Tierney, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Greitens, Michelle Obama, Julie Foudy, and Bruce Springsteen selected as the six exemplars for this course?

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By finding ways to move ever closer to achieving simultaneous four-way wins—actions that benefit work, home, community, and self, all at once—such as volunteering for the United Way early in his…

Which of these actions will help you to be successful in pursuing what matters; feeling more purposeful, connected, and optimistic; and developing your repertoire of skills?

Identifying three or four significant events in your life that taught you something about yourself or shaped the person you are, identifying the tension in each experience and how you dealt with it…

Exploring alternative means to achieving goals by changing a pattern of behavior that you already use, and then working to understand your fears about that change and the pros and cons of switching up…

Listing the names of the three to five people who matter most to you in each domain of your life, describing one thing that you can do to provide some kind of help for some or all of these people or…

What are four-way wins?

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Writing the beliefs that fuel your concerns about an upcoming change; working to determine if these beliefs are accurate by researching them and differentiating realistic concerns from the unrealistic…

Selecting a one-hour time slot in which you will not use any technology—no internet, no smartphone, no electronic connectivity—and then considering how both you and others were affected by this…

As the founder of the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy and a spokesperson for Global Girl Media, Julie Foudy works to empower young women and teach them lessons on leadership, volunteerism, and…

Thinking of an important person in your life—someone who matters to you and who you believe has a stake in your future—and imagining how he or she would answer the question, “What are the main things…

Finding someone you can make a commitment to about reaching a goal and then asking that person to regularly inquire about your progress, and offering to do the same for him or her, can help to…

To determine which skills you need to develop most, you should: