ALIGHT is for anyone who leads: a team lead or manager, a coach, a committee chair, the person others turn to when a project needs direction. It starts from what you already have, your strengths, your relationships and your sense of purpose, and helps you grow them on purpose.
The course follows a model of positive leadership with six resources: Abundance, Limberness, Inspiration, Grand Design, Health and Tribe. Each has three components, such as strengths spotting, emotional agility, hope and optimism, purpose, high-quality connections and positive conflict. The resources work together and each has a volume, so the aim is a good balance for your role rather than everything turned up at once.
In the opening module, Igniting, you take the ALIGHT Positive Leadership Assessment and My ALIGHT Resources Check-In, write about the leader you are becoming, and start My Leadership Reflection Journal. Then there is one module for each of the eighteen components, with practices such as Strength-Priming Before a Meeting, the Energy Network Map, The Miracle Question for Leaders and Five to One for the next point of conflict. The closing module, Aligning, takes your reading again and turns the difference into My ALIGHT Development Plan, with one practice per resource and a date to review it.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Connect, the move about teams, leading and conversation. It shares tools such as What I See in You and Who Gives Me Energy with Work Well Together, so it deepens your own leadership whichever block your team chose. Begin with Igniting; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course is open to you.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life