• Ability to identify trends and weak signals
• Ability to connect trends into a "futures context"
• Ability to structure and ask appropriate questions
• Ability to engage in "futures generative dialogue"
• Ability to connect disparate factors and ideas
• Ability to collaborate among people with differing ideas and attitudes
• Ability to evolve "electronic webs of continuous innovation"
• Ability to build community networks to "seed" parallel processes of innovation and transformation in organizations and communities
• Ability to listen for value in what others say and make innovative connections
• Ability to challenge traditional assumptions
• Ability to be open to new ideas
• Ability to have a passion for learning
• Ability to apply concepts and methods of "uplearning" in order to understand and work with ideas and methods at a higher level of complexity
• Ability to understand and utilize concepts, values, capacities, strategies, attitudes and behaviors of the COTF System of Community Transformation.

• Master Capacity Builder Skills (a), by Rick Smyre
• Master Capacity Builder Skills (b), by Rick Smyre
• Transformative Leadership - Building Capcities for the Future, by Rick Smyre

Student Transformative Leadership

• Twenty First Century Transformers

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