Leadership skills
TetraMap has often been described as a leadership competency. What does this mean?
Great leaders combine courage, knowledge, compassion, and vision to meet the challenges their organisations face. To reach peak performance, leaders support their teams to develop autonomy, mastery, a common purpose, and a connection to personal passion.
Good leadership is about good relationships, and TetraMap teaches understanding of people’s natures and behaviours, communication with others, and the value of diversity and differences within teams.
Key skills required for effective leadership are:
- Self-awareness
- Self-management
- Communication skills
- Relationship and team management
- Conflict management and reduction
- Responsible decision making
- Leaving a legacy for the future
Leaders and managers start with understanding themselves at a deeper level, using the foundational workshop Why are you like that? – the nature of behaviour. They can then ask of those they lead, “How well and how often do you demonstrate how you value diversity and reduce conflict?”
Multiple perspectives
The Art of TetraMapping is to take a situation, challenge, problem, or opportunity and TetraMap it. This means everything should be looked at from at least four perspectives. As an example, the TetraMap of motivating others addressing different Elemental preferences:
