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Leadership Compass: Appreciating Diverse Work Styles Overview: This material in this workshop is taken from the Bonner Curriculum from the Bonner Foundation in Princeton New Jersey. The purpose of the workshop is to enable participants to articulate at a higher level why they work the way they do, as well as identify skills and strengths they would like to enhance. This workshop also is a tool to bolster team accountability by pushing people to consider the way in which their styles plays out on a team and how each person might become better at changing work styles to balance a team or fit a given work situation. Category: Diversity; leadership development; problem-solving; team and personal management Focus of this Workshop: In sum, Leadership Compass is about: Developing a deeper sense of self-awareness about one’s leadership style and approach Developing a more balanced approach to work style; seeking out areas of growth or change Developing an understanding of how ones work style affects team functioning ?Deliberately building skills in all four directions to enhance personal and team performance History The Leadership Compass draws from a Native American Indian–based practice called the Medicine Wheel or the Four-Fold Way. In the Four-Fold Way, the four directions are described as warrior (north), healer (south), teacher (west), and visionary (east). All directions have profound strengths and potential weaknesses, and every person is seen as capable of growing in each direction. Each direction has a primary “human resource,” including power (north), love (south), wisdom (west), and vision (east), as well as primary struggles, associated with loss or difficulty. Each person can access the gifts associated with each direction; through work, ritual, a variety of practices; in order to become more whole. This workshop builds on the Leadership Compass framework to allow individual participants to dig deeper in their perceptions of self and t