Core Concepts for Module 3

• What is Brave Communication and why is it important
• The warning signs and danger of political mindsets
• The concept of honor and identifying unhealed offenses
• Risking Trust: the importance for leaders

Checklist for Module 3

• Identify anyone with whom you need to risk Brave Communication
  • Someone who causes you to react when thinking of them
  • Someone with whom you’ve recently had a confusing interaction
  • A conflict that needs to be cleared up

• Improve communication skills
  • Learn ways to identify and communicate goals for a WIN/WIN form of communication
  • Learn how to identify discomfort in you or others in communication and tools to bring trust and safety into difficult conversations
  • Search for “hidden agendas” in your Core that need to be shared
  • Do you ask good questions?

• Review ourselves for political motivators
  • Honestly review painful interactions as indicators that a deeper look into a Core root is needed
    • A situation in which your own success outweighs the needs of the team
    • Any fear that someone else’s success comes at the detriment of your own
    • Struggle to own mistakes for fear of what people will think
  • Learn when to confront or transparently share with people and when to draw boundaries
  • Avoid assuming the motives of others and learn tools that need to be learned
  • Do you like being angry?

• What is your ability to honor?
  • Are you looking at others as enemies or less intelligent for their beliefs?
  • Is it difficult to hear from others who believe differently?
  • When faced with disagreement, are you powerful with a Prince mindset? Or struggle as a Pauper?

• Identify any areas where you struggle to risk trust
  • Accepting the fallibility of yourself and others
  • Learning that difficult moments don’t mean you’re bad or are a victim
  • Ensure that past painful moments of risking trust have been identified and worked through

• Add any needed identity statements or aspirations to your I AM statement