Are you a courage-multiplier, a matcher or diminisher?

That's what your EnQ Courage Leadership Profile tells you - based on your courage-building preferences, in situations when the partners you mobilize are tempted to settle for compromise rather than optimize.

If you're a courage-multiplier, you can mobilize investors, buyers, partners and teammates to stretch, take initiative and optimize performance.

If you're a courage-diminisher, you make it comfortable, safe and convenient for your partners to do what they're told - and avoid problems that could create fear and discomfort.

And if you're a matcher, you build courage when it's convenient for you to uplift, ennoble and bring out the best in your partners - or when you remember that's the best way to get traction - and show investors that you're ready to get traction. And you have lapses of consciousness, when you don't Make Courage Contagious.

In easy times, when your innovations sell themselves and fly off the shelf and when investors are hungry to get into your deal, our research says you can get by as a courage-matcher or even a courage-diminisher.

But when time are turbulent - and the partners you need to mobilize are reluctant, fearful or tempted to settle for what's risk-averse, rather than what's optimal - leaders who multiply courage have an edge.

Take the courage assessment in the first online Program in your Courage Leadership Journey, and you'll get scores on these 5 courage building leadership secrets:

1. AROUSE passion to radiate joy, can-do energy, urgency and lift everyone's spirits, resilience, confidence

2. AIM high with business acumen and a focus on winning the long game, to optimize your impact, your first-in-class position in your market niche and your investors' and buyers' ROI

3. ASK openly to encourage candor, sharing, feedback, transparency - and to use the exchange of ideas for learning, growth, agility and continuous improvement

4. ALIGN interests so partners trust each other enough to put "we" ahead of "me" and ask, "How can i help to enlarge the pie for everyone?" before they ask, "What's in it for me to get the biggest share of the pie?"

5. ADHERE to disciplines to deliver on time, high-quality reliable solutions that work as promised and make a difference - according to plan

If you're preparing for a larger innovation leadership role - or you're doing due diligence before you fund leaders and bet on the courage they multiply to deliver value - .an assessment of these 5As can help.

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