To Understand What is the Fundamental 4

1. Self-Awareness
2. Communication
3. Influence
4. Learning Agility

Self-Awareness – Require to understand what is your strength and weakness. There are four crucial tools anyone requires to learn and develop from time to time.

1. Leadership wisdom – taking your own time to reflect your own experience regularly
2. Leadership Identity – what is your position, job role, disability, and personal context
3. Leadership Reputation – is what others think of  your reputation as current and previous behaviour
4. Leadership Brand – you aspire to and the actions you take to support any projects, group, EGL

Communication – Communicating information and ideas. Anyone encouraging discussion, building trust, conveying the vision and strategic intent, and pulling people along with you. There are several ways of getting engage in communicating methods such as authenticity counts, visibility, and listening/watching (Deaf people) – powerful skill. There are five main tips for communicating effectively, which are communicating relentlessly, simplify and be direct, listen and encourage input, illustrate through stories, and affirm with actions.

Influence – you need to develop influencing and leadership skills to help you to communicate goals, algin the efforts of others and build commitment from people in any area. Again there are 3 areas to learn about this one – logical appeals, emotional appeals, and cooperative appeals.

Learning Agility – the need for the ability to learn from the mistake and to constantly be in a learning mode, to value, to seek out the lessons of experiences. Again there are four essential keys which are to be a seeker, hone your-sense making, internalise experience and lesson learned,  and adapt and apply.

How can any people with disabilities, including Deaf/Hard of Hearing, achieve this by becoming leaders in their or within their community?

From the article which is worth reading, and the person wrote this article Danny West (edited by Shannon Kelly). Social Model of Leadership: Why disabled people are the leaders of tomorrow

It is time for New Zealand – people with disAbilities, including Deaf people to take up and learn about leadership training. Yes, there were several workshops in the past, but not enough. We need to take time and increase more awareness in the social model of leadership within society. It does not matter whether a person born with a disability or became disabled later in their life. Jean prefers anyone with their experience right from birth because they have long term experience living with disability than anyone who became disabled in later life, such as involved with an accident. Jean is living experience in deaf since 18 months old.