MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Abilities

Leadership

Ask your early team: “When do I lead at my best, and when do I unintentionally hold us back?”

Request focused feedback on your leadership impact, listen fully before you explain or justify.

Share your leadership goals with a peer, ask them to hold you accountable for one behavior shift.

Invite a peer founder to share how they see your leadership, spot gaps between intent and effect.

Ask a founder who leads differently how they approach challenges, what can you borrow or adapt?

Discuss with a peer how each of you builds trust, compare approaches and stories.

Collaboration

Ask a collaborator: “What’s something I do that helps or hinders teamwork?”, listen fully before replying.

Share your experience of working with someone, invite them to share theirs and compare learning.

Ask a collaborator for feedback on how you share space, do you open room or dominate flow?

Ask a peer how you respond in disagreements, do they notice openness or defensiveness?

Debrief a project with your team, what helped or blocked collaboration, and what would you do differently?

Ask someone who collaborates well: “What do you intentionally do to make teamwork easier?”

Communication

Ask an investor or advisor: “How do you experience my pitch, clear, rushed, or unclear?”

Request feedback on your last investor update, did the message structure and tone fit the audience?

Share your clarity goal with a peer, invite them to flag when your pitch becomes vague.

Ask a peer how your tone comes across in pitches, assertive, rushed, friendly, or passive?

Debrief a pitch miscommunication, what signals or assumptions made it harder to connect?

Invite a peer from another sector to explain how they read your pitch, seek insight on clarity.

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