The Human-Rooted Leader™ Platform
The leadership development toolset of Rootstock.
Cutting edge plus wisdom: the Platform only includes content that combines cutting-edge research with timeless truths. Every module builds one of the four skillsets or four mindsets of Human-Rooted Leadership.
Ready to go.
Our standard programs, NEXT, LEADER, and EXECUTIVE, are ready to deploy today. We can also tailor a program to fit your specific needs.
Use one module, or string them together.
Each module can be used on its own, or in a string of modules to create a specific program.
How the modules roll up.
Every module on the Platform builds one of the four skillsets or four mindsets of Human-Rooted Leadership. Pick a skillset or mindset to see its modules.
Be real with your people, including when it’s awkward.
Discover how your CORE, STORY, GIFTS/VOIDS, PASSIONS, and WIRING all combine to define you.
This inventory guides you to explore core beliefs on how the world works.
You will explore what matters most to you and how that shows up at work.
Discover how what you lacked and what you had in plenty have shaped your deeper purposes.
Discover how to become a more vulnerable and authentic leader.
Discover how unprocessed negative emotions morph you into lesser versions of yourself.
Explore three versions of “conceptualized self”: Perfectionism, One-Upper, and One-Downer.
Discover how toxic shame and narcissism form a deadly combo of dysfunction.
You will discover the power and importance of “Self-Differentiated Leadership.”
This process will help you explore what others see as your unique qualities.
Receiving feedback is hard. You will learn the right and wrong ways to process feedback.
You will receive 360 feedback on core skills that build trust.
Know each person deeply, then build something greater together.
You will discover your unique communication, conflict, and decision-making style.
Discover how your motivational forces work in key areas.
Using DiSC data, you will explore strategies to adjust for greater effectiveness.
Using Driving Forces data, you’ll discover the myths of motivation and how that affects perceptions.
You will discover the five dysfunctions of a team, and strategies to overcome them.
Explore your leadership acumen with an assessment based on the hero of The Five Dysfunctions.
We will learn about the various predictable dysfunctions that arise when teams are not healthy.
Explore how your working style makes you a great team player, and strategies to adjust your style.
See how adjusting your working style is needed, especially when working with other specific working styles.
Discover the group bonding context that needs to be present to forge a tribe.
Using the TRIBE recipe, you will be assessed on how far (or near) you are on the quest to tribe.
Explore the five levers of trust: Empathy, Character, Ability, Track Record, and Motive.
You will discover the four different trust styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, and Confusing.
Help people know the why, how, and what of everything they’re doing.
You will acquire the skills to be clear, concise, and complete in your one-way communication.
You will learn and apply the four laws of group conflict.
You will discover a best-in-class approach to organizational change.
You will discover the seven rookie mistakes that leaders make when leading a change event.
You will discover the critical need for clarity, and how to provide it, when making changes.
Discover practical and counterintuitive ways to cut a clear path when making organizational change.
Discover how your working style and motivational forces help and hinder your ability to lead.
Discover if your working style and motivational forces show up as extreme in the change process.
Discover how the combination of scalability and differentiation makes for great strategy.
Discover how to align priorities and size up their difficulty for strategic framing.
Develop leaders who surpass you.
You will discover the power of coaching and the ins and outs of developing a coaching habit.
You will discover and practice the seven questions from the best-selling book The Coaching Habit.
How you show up with a person.
You will discover and practice the four powerful laws of active listening.
Discover interpersonal skills of Curiosity, Appreciation, Kindness, and Eye Contact.
Discover how to take care of the emotional side of your people when making organizational changes.
Get the full view of how enabling dysfunction in others makes your life a living hell.
Who you owe it to: the generation above you and the generation below you.
Frame your team in nine categories of growth.
What you do with the time you have: turn minutes into moments.
Discover how your energy and priority align to help you be at your best.
You will learn about different meetings for different needs and the most effective meeting agendas.
Why you keep going: never done, always learning how to lead.
You need a compass to determine if you, or your people, have a “fixed” or “growth” mindset.
Expand your ability to bounce back from stressful situations and negative emotions.
You will discover how your “thinking” and “awareness” brains work and sync up.
Discover how your Fight, Flight, and Freeze responses are triggered, and more.
You will discover how your Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Capacity work together.
You will learn the definitions of the big six negative emotions and how to process them.
Easy. Peasy. Lemon. Squeezy. Discover a brilliantly simple definition of innovation.
You will begin to think like an innovator. If you think like one, then you can be one!
You will discover the essential components that go into a winning innovation process.
Discover how to do stakeholder mapping.
Improve innovation by learning how to start with the right question.
Learn how to get off-center and move toward understanding of complex problems.
Create an innovation process for generating new value in a collaborative way.
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