What does a Rubik's Cube teach us about leadership? | Connected Leadership

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Description

A reflective close to the Connected Leadership journey, revisiting the four Ps (purpose, priorities, potential, progress) plus perseverance across self, team, and system. Through Christiana Figueres's stubborn optimism and a memorable Rubik's Cube analogy, this final lesson sends you off with scaffolding to keep building your leadership.

Key topics:
- Recap of the four Ps across self, team, and system
- Perseverance and stubborn optimism for wicked problems
- Confident, curious humility and learning from others
- Memorable images and frameworks from the course
- The Rubik's Cube analogy for self, team, and system layers
- Closing gratitude and the next step in your leadership journey

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

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