In addition to Escape + Search = Think leadership thinking can also incorporate 6 principles which we emphasise. I have encouraged trainers and leaders to understand and master the Six CAP Principles.
DFQ #05:
Choose one of the six CAP principles, and say why you think a better understanding of that principle will help you to become a much better leader.
NOTE: After you post your comment today you’ve completed 5 DFQs and the first week of the 4 weeks of the 30-day Pipeline. That’s good. It means you are already establishing new cognitive patterns. Keep it up!
You may have noticed that I sent you 1 lesson a day for 3 days then missed a day. After this lesson, I’ll miss another day and then send you lesson #6 which starts the second week. That means you get 5 DFQs every 7 days.
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I like learn by teaching. Every time you explain something to someone you are enhancing virtuosity in some way. I consider leading by genuinely open example part of this as well, both of which I think are important in enhancing our own skills but also hopefully (in a work situation) we can equip those we work with with new skills. This is then useful for succession planning and makes effective delegation easier.
Skills that are merely knowledge and not used become wasted. Turning skills into real learning through practise is the key to consolidating those skills. Committing time and effort to learning new skills and measuring progress is the key to this for me. #4 Commitment to action.
I choose CAP 5. Effective Follow-up. We often experience training or develop and deliver training and make the assumption that all is well based on nothing more than a conviction that we have got it right. Every day I am reminded that everyone sees things through a different lens and we must not waste the opportunity to learn from others point of view. That way we get a potential double reward, one we get better at learning/teaching/training and two we learn more about ourselves and how to improve.
Measurement. Hours of practice (HOP) is a shift in mind-set for me. It implies that most skills can be learnt through simply a commitment to doing to required number of hours. This is important for learning new skills both for myself and for those I lead.
To me measurement is important, I’m a firm believer that if you cannot measure a “thing” you cannot manage it. It is the “feedback” loop that will eventually bring success
#4, Commitment to Action. As the cliché goes, talk is cheap. The leader chooses the best solution based on the circumstances and evidence, and then ACTS on it. This is the skill whose development will help me the most.
learning by teaching.for the student to be a teacher he must continuously engage in the process of reinforcement.CPR.
I choose #4 — Commitment to action. I find the use of ‘action commitments’ & related planning tools to be of particular interest because it seems to be an effective means of making oneself and others accountable.
I read it last month, and read it again today. I find number 3 measurement is very important to me. Without measurement you never know when you have improved your skill or the goal you set for yourself, and how you are going to be better than now.
Measurement gives you indication that you know exactly where you are and how you are going to improve next.
in addition to answer the question correctly I will add that I feel the 2 CAP principle stands out initially as an integral part of the process. Without turning my knowledge into skill and action I won’t be forwarding anything.