Courses

Have you missed opportunities for career growth because you didn’t speak up? Have you felt that a meeting at work was going in the wrong direction, but didn’t say anything? Have you worried over the right timing and right phrasing to the point that you didn’t act at all? This course provides a three-step framework that will help you delve more deeply into past, present, and future actions in order to cultivate greater bravery at work. We will look at the capacity for bravery you have already shown and practice bravery in the moment through in-class exercises. These will include a communication skill called “sportscasting” to increase collaboration in almost any work meeting and a perspective-taking skill called “the five hats” to motivate oneself toward brave actions. We will also explore opportunities to be brave in the future through the use of daily planning tools, such as, “Which projects will challenge my bravery tomorrow, and how can I prepare for them?” The bravery framework is based in part on James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente’s Stages of Change model and Daniel Kahneman’s work on automatic versus deliberate thinking. Assignments between class sessions will be experiments in developing bravery in yourself and cultivating bravery in people you care about—both at work and at home.