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Leadership Canvas
Map who you are as a leader on one honest page
About 20 min · no sign-up
The Leadership Canvas is a single-page reflection tool for anyone leading a team, programme, or organisation in Myanmar's humanitarian and development sector — from a newly promoted field coordinator to an executive director. Instead of a long self-assessment, it gives you eight focused boxes that together form an honest picture of how you lead: what you stand for, the strengths you bring, the edges you are still growing, how you behave under pressure, who you are developing, and where you find support. It is built for the real conditions our sector works in — funding gaps, security stress, staff turnover, and the heavy responsibility of serving communities in crisis.
Work through the boxes in any order, writing one short point per line. Be concrete rather than aspirational — name the actual decision you struggle to delegate, the actual person you are mentoring, the actual habit that shows up when you are exhausted. When you are done, print or download your canvas and keep it visible: pin it above your desk, revisit it each quarter, or bring it to a coaching or supervision conversation. The goal is not a perfect leader on paper, but a clearer, steadier one in practice.
Why do you lead, and what non-negotiables guide you? Name the beliefs you will not trade away even when funding, donors, or authorities push back.
What do you do well that your team relies on? List the capabilities people come to you for — the things that would be hard to replace.
Where are you still developing? Be honest about the skills or habits that limit you — naming them is the first step to working on them.
When the crisis hits, the deadline looms, or the funding falls through — what does your team actually see in you? Name both the helpful and the unhelpful patterns.
Who are you actively growing, and toward what? List specific people and the next step you are helping each of them take.
What genuinely needs you — and what are you holding onto out of habit? Reserve this box for the few calls that truly require your authority or accountability.
Hand over the rest with clarity. For the work that is not on your 'only-me' list, note how you delegate well — and where you tend to slip back into doing it yourself.
No one leads alone. List the people and spaces that keep you going — your mentors, peers, supervisors, and the things you do to protect your own wellbeing.
Tip: one point per line. Print / download keeps your layout.