LEADER SEL TOOLKIT

LEADER SEL
TOOLKIT

Effective leadership requires strong social and emotional skills.

Select a social-emotional competency below and begin to Learn, Practice, and Extend your practice using the curated resources.

  • Actionable Self-Reflection

    Illuminate Your Blindspots
    Defragment Your Mind
    Define Your Role

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  • Meaningful Conversations

    Become Insatiably Curious
    Tune Up Communication
    Embrace Positive Conflict

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  • Generative Relationships

    Create Psychological Safety
    Foster Sense of Belonging
    Explore Motivation of Others

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  • Thinking Systemically

    Build Strategic Muscle
    Uncover Connections
    Leverage Your Time

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  • Cultivate Trustworthiness

    Attend to Antecedents of Trust
    Become Fluent in Body Language
    Map Your Trust Propensity

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  • Equity Consciousness

    Develop Equity Vocabulary
    Build Empathy Muscle
    Embrace Your Role

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Activate Your Learning

Click the links above to learn and practice the social-emotional competencies. Use these tips to activate your learning.

  • Initiate conversations that develop your vocabulary and working knowledge.
  • Evaluate your own strength. Look and ask for feedback as you model these competencies..
  • Tackle a challenge in your school or district that gives you the opportunity to apply your skills in practicing, modeling, and communicating each SEL competency. Facilitate experiences that allow your team to apply these skills too.
  • Make your growth explicit by reflecting metacognitively on your practice.
  • Curate a community of practice that engages trusted others in the process of sharing goals and feedback.