Nursing Unit2 assignment

YOUR SCORES FOR EACH SET OF SKILLS ARE SHOWN BELOW.

The Daring Leadership Assessment reviews strengths and opportunities for growth

in the four courage-building skill sets. Possible scores for each skill set range from

0-10. The assessment report serves as a guide to areas where:

You have strengths (scores ≥ 8).

You have both strengths and opportunities for growth (scores ≥ 5 and <8).

You have solid opportunities for growth (scores < 5).

For each of the four skill areas, we’ll share some quick learnings, and direct you to

relevant sections in Dare to Lead for additional tools, skill development ideas, and

practice suggestions.

Rumbling with Vulnerability: 8.8/10

Rumbling with vulnerability is one of your strengths.  You have built a solid

foundation for your courage-building skills. Stay brave, stay curious, and keep

learning!

Vulnerability is the emotion that we experience during times of uncertainty, risk, and

emotional exposure. It’s having the courage to show up, fully engage, and be seen

when you can’t control the outcome.

The willingness and ability to rumble with vulnerability is the foundational skill of

courage-building. Without this core skill, the other three skill sets are impossible to

put into practice. Consider this carefully: Our ability to be daring leaders will never

be greater than our capacity for vulnerability.

Most of us didn’t grow up believing vulnerability was courageous, so our first

challenge is overcoming the myths we’ve learned over the years. Myths like thinking

we can opt out of vulnerability, or that we can engineer the uncertainty and

discomfort out of vulnerability, or simply that vulnerability is weakness. Exercise #2

from our free downloadable workbook will walk you through this.

The second step is developing the skills and grounded confidence to stay in

vulnerability when it feels overwhelming. Many of us either avoid vulnerable

situations, armor up for them, or completely tap out when it gets too uncomfortable

or awkward. Building grounded confidence means developing all of the skills and

practices explored in Part One, Sections One through Five in Dare to Lead. It’s half

the book because it’s that important. It’s also half of the exercises in the

downloadable workbook.

Living Into Your Values: 10.0/10

Living into your values is one of your strengths. You’re practicing your values,

not just professing them. That’s the core of integrity. Stay strong and keep

practicing–this is constant work.

A value is a way of being or believing that we hold most important. Living into your

values requires a clear understanding of your core values, having a strong sense of

the behaviors that are in alignment with those values, recognizing when your

behavior is out of alignment, and course-correcting as needed.

When we’re vulnerable, we will face self-doubt, hurtful comments, and fear.  Our

clarity of values is the essential support during these difficult times. If we don’t have

our values to remind us why we’re being courageous, the cynics and the critics can

bring us to our knees.

Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice

them. We walk our talk—we are clear about what we believe and hold important,

and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with

those beliefs.

More information about the importance of living into our values and aligning with

organizational values as well as teaching on how to build this skill set can be found

in Dare to Lead, Part Two.

Braving Trust: 8.4/10

Braving trust is one of your strengths.  This means that you’re hitting high scores

on all seven of the trust elements (BRAVING). This can change with different

demands and relationships, so keep practicing!

Trust is built in small gestures and over time.  It is an iterative process between two

people or within a team that is based on behaviors in seven specific areas. These

areas are captured by the acronym BRAVING (Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability,

Vault, Integrity, Nonjudgment, and Generosity).

Because talking about trust is tough, and because these conversations have the

potential to go sideways fast, we often avoid the rumble. And that’s even more

dangerous. First, when we’re struggling with trust and don’t have the tools or skills

to talk about it directly with the person involved, it leads us to talk about people

instead of to them. Second, trust is the glue that holds teams and organizations

together. We ignore trust issues at the expense of our own performance, and also

at the expense of our team’s and organization’s success.

The BRAVING Inventory download is a great place to start working on building trust.

 It includes more definitions of the seven trust elements. Specific skills practice for

braving trust can be found in Dare to Lead, Part Three.

Learning to Rise: 9.6/10

Learning to rise is one of your strengths. Keep challenging the narratives that

get in the way of learning from setbacks. And, share your rising skills with

colleagues and team members. It’s a contagious skill.

The Learning to Rise process is about getting up from our falls, overcoming our

mistakes, and facing setbacks in a way that brings more learning and strength. As

tough as it is, the payoff is huge: When we have the courage to walk into our hard

experiences of failure and disappointment, and own those stories, we get to write

the ending. And when we don’t own our stories of failure, setbacks, and hurt—they

own us.

Our research shows that leaders who are trained in rising skills as part of a

courage-building program are more likely to engage in courageous behaviors

because they know how to get back up after taking risks and being brave.  

The Learning to Rise process involves learning from setbacks and disappointments

and applying key learnings to future situations. Finding the key learnings depends

on recognizing and getting curious about emotion and comparing the story in our

heads with the facts.

Mistakes, failures, and setbacks provide key learnings for the future, we just have to

be brave enough to own the story.  

Specific skills practice for learning to rise can be found in Dare to Lead, Part Four.