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What are a changemaker’s core skills?
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The pace of change in every sector and in every individual’s life is accelerating. In order to navigate and command this new landscape, everyone must be a skilled and practiced changemaker.
See the differences between the old and new paradigms below and why new skills are so urgently needed:
Old Paradigm
New Paradigm
Defined by efficiency in repetition
Defined by change and innovation
One leader at a time
Everyone recognized as a leader and powerful contributor
Team based on repetitive skills executed harmoniously in a vertical system
Team of teams fluidly evolving across old boundaries to address complex challenges in a hybrid landscape
Defined by efficiency in repetition
Defined by change and innovation
Be practiced at a skill
Be practiced at the core skills of empathy, teamwork, new leadership, and changemaking
Transaction
Interaction
Premium on expertise and authority based on specific knowledge
Premium on ethical fiber — personal credibility and authenticity based on changemaking for the good
Communication through authoritative voice
Communication through storytelling and experiences
Limited distribution of information based on “need to know” to perform a job or function
Open, transparent communication flow based on everyone having information on which to form a team of teams and act
Co-creating a space where people feel that they can speak out in spite of their fears is a vital step in the process of learning how to become a changemaker. Empathy researcher Brene Brown explains that being empathetic requires that we be present and wholly engaged without our ‘protective armour’. People wear armour to try to become invisible or fit in with others to hide what they consider to be defects or embarrassing qualities for fear of being judged, labeled, or bullied. It is difficult to feel empathy for others when you are cut off from yourself.
For this reason, we’re starting the change closest to home. Everyone in the changemaking process needs to feel valued, seen, and heard. Because of the culture we inherited and the way our brains work, all of us carry biases. This isn’t wrong or bad, it’s what we do with them that matters. Being humbled can lead to personal transformation.
The exercises below will help you to:
Examine your physical classroom and the environment it creates
Co-create a classroom contract
Learn how to be a better listener
Notice your biases
Become aware of diversity in your environment
Understand power and privilege
Once the principles of the safe space have been defined and agreed upon by all, they can be used, reinforced, and referred back to as needed throughout the time you share together.
