Bernadette BoasExecutive Leadership Coach, Trainer and Speaker, Ball of Fire Coaching · Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow and No One Can Overlook.

Unlock Leadership Foundation, Applied, Advanced Skills

22 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this presentation, Bernadette Boas outlines a holistic leadership development operating system organized as a three‑stage curriculum. The first stage—Foundational Skills—covers self‑awareness, communication, feedback delivery, and basic leadership fundamentals that create a solid base. The second stage—Applied Skills—builds on that base by teaching how to coach direct reports, manage performance, lead through change, and handle conflict. The final stage—Advanced Skills— adds higher‑order capabilities such as developing successors, building team culture, navigating organizational complexity, and strategic thinking. The speaker emphasizes that the sequence is intentional: each layer enriches the previous one, enabling leaders to grow in a comprehensive, additive manner.

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This is your development system. This is not a course catalog. This is a designed progression of courses that one would take in order to really develop and grow holistically, not just in pieces. And this curriculum has a sequence and 3 components that make up the sequence. First is your foundational skills. This is all around the self-awareness. This is also communication, feedback delivery, basic leadership skills that set the groundwork for then the second one, which would be specific applied skills. How does one coach direct reports? How does one manage performance? How does one lead through change, deal with conflict? You're now taking the foundation and you're enhancing and enriching it for that individual to really grow and expand their leadership capability. The third sequence would be advanced. What are those advanced skills around developing their successors, building team culture, navigating organizational complexity, strategic thinking? This being a development operating system, you're adding on and enhancing and enriching as you go.