Which vaults will go into the vault?

It's getting to that time of the year when we start to wind things down and, for many, an invitation to reflect on the year that has been and what has been learned.

A time for vaulting.

It's worth asking yourself what the genuine "vaults" have been. What were those stand out leaps forward as you negotiated the challenges and opportunities that presented themselves through the year? Not the usual competencies and capabilities playing out in the day to day, but the genuinely special stuff. The stretches. The straining or pitching forward. The traversing of a gap you might not have expected normally to be able to negotiate.

When, where, why and how did you and your team arc up and over those unique obstacles, curve balls, opportunity spaces and unexpected places?

Once you've identified some of these more notable vaults, the challenge then becomes about how you will effectively "vault the vaults." That is, how will you make the notable (now) memorable enough for you to re-access, learn from and apply in future?

Hopefully you're maintaining a vault to store the precious lessons learned and safeguard them for your future. Maybe you have particular shelves, cupboard colours or baskets made of different materials in the vault to help you sort and store your vaults. Or perhaps you come up with clever alliterative names for each experience that make them easy to recall later down the line.

However it works best for you, get those amazing vaults of yours safely into the vault for later!

This is a?Leader TWIG?- the concept of (a)?growing something new?(a new awareness, skill or 'branch' to what you currently already know) but also (b) becoming equipped to 'catch on', realising or suddenly understanding something that is in fact right in front of you in the performative leadership moment (from the Gaelic 'tuig').

Access the LeadRede self-coaching learning journey attached to this TWIG.