Initiative strengthens:

  • Availability by following through with action.
  • Compassion by recognizing and doing what needs to be done.
  • Cooperation by recognizing and performing your role on a team.
  • Creativity by willing to be the one to start a new perspective.

Initiative is a lot like

Drive

Enterprise

Gumption

Ambition

Ingenuity

Leadership

Trustworthiness is strengthened by:

  • Decisiveness so that you act on your decisions.
  • Wisdom by discerning what needs to be acted upon.
  • Alertness by staying aware of what needs to be done, so you can do it.
  • Justice by doing what needs to be done to be just.
  • Courage by overcoming fear to take the initiative.
  • Flexibility by being able to adjust to changes brought on by initiative.

For the word origin, translations, sign language version, and other linguistic
characteristics of Initiative,
visit the No Matter How You Say It page.