Thread invests significant resources to foster volunteers’ development into self-motivated, resilient, and responsible citizens by training them in the Thread Core Competencies.
Show all the way up
- Recognize your own inherent value
- Understand, embody, and communicate that you understand you have room for growth
- Be physically and authentically present
- Challenge yourself and push through discomfort to connect deeply with others
Fail forward
- Be willing to engage in an iterative change process
- Give and receive constructive feedback (telling the truth with love; call a thing a thing)
- Utilize feedback to change
- Share with others how you are changing and how you have changed
Treat relationships as wealth
- Understand my ability to thrive is bound up in your ability to thrive
- Recognize the inherent value of ALL people; dismantle the “haves” versus “have nots”
- Meet ALL people where they are at
- Intentionally build relationships across lines of difference
Learn from all voices
- Make the table accessible
- Start with the assumption that people have the best intentions
- Identify the value added by yourself and others, look for unique capability not simply ability
- Actively listen to all voices, actively use your own voice