OODA Loops and Situational Awareness

in this course you will learn a way of refining your ability to hold situational awareness by using the OODA loop technique developed to train fighter pilots. This lesson focuses on project work, but this same technique is valuable for any part of life in which we want to be aware of reality and make you good decisions.

John Boyd, the inventor of this technique, used it in reverse to quickly overwhelm his opponent’s ability to orient themselves with a fast series of seemingly nonsensical maneuvers.

You can use this technique to make good decisions and take smart actions in critical, confusing situations.

Introduction to the Humane Leadership 10-week Course

Welcome to our quick introduction course on Humane Leadership. We have made week one of our 10 week course available available for you to get a sense of how the course works.

Click on the course content below to reveal the topics we’ll cover and view videos explaining the ideas and work of the course.

This course revolves around a project you choose as an opportunity to develop your project and self leadership skills.

The text book, Humane Leadership by Stephen Bárczay Sloan, is available here

Please reach out via the contact us page if you have any questions or would like to enroll in the full course.

Freedom for Young Adults

Welcome, let’s get you some more freedom.

This course is for teens and their parents to learn a simple method to earn freedom by taking more responsibility for their own life.

Here’s a quick overview (<5 minutes) for you and your parents.

The course is a total of about 30 minutes long and broken into five video lessons.

There is one short exercise that can empower teens at the end of the lessons. It is an opportunity to begin thinking about their own opportunities to earn trust and freedom.

This course is free as a service to you and your friends so feel free to share it.

Coaching Enrichment

This course supports your Humane Leadership coaching work.
The models and thinking tools (wisdom jigs) explained in these lessons will offer you new mental models and methods to support your emergence as a more effective and humane leader.

What is Humane Leadership?

In which you will learn the basic concepts and tools of a more effective and humane way to lead yourself and others.

  • Core concepts
  • Our theory of change
  • Who is leading the course?
  • Next steps to consider

ADD – in section 1, Theory of change, How these ideas shift how we lead ourselves and others -hy leading ourselves is the key to being more a effective and humane leader,

Humane Community Leadership

Hello and welcome!

The intention of this course is to support community leaders like you in becoming both more effective at the important work you do, and more humane with yourselves and others. I hope you’ll find it engaging and rewarding.

If you would like some extra supporting documentation on getting into the course, see this page

Contact us if you would like to learn how to apply to join this course.

Project Essentials

Learn the basics of the Humane Leadership approach to project leadership.

This course offers you essential tools for earning influence by making a real difference in the world.

The assignments are left in each lesson for your reference. Definitely do all of the assignments that will support your project’s success, the statement of work and those tools that will feed it, like dependency trees and Gantt charts.

I would suggest that you also regularly complete Performance Wisdom Jigs to optimize your own performance.

The letters are not required, but can be a great way to synthesize what you are learning and share that with your instructor.

As always, reach out if you have any questions.