Clarify Your Core Values
Leadership is not just about strategic planning. At the quintessence of effective leadership, you'll find core values, and it needs you to go deeper. Endeavoring to be an evolved and elegant leader needs you to go by the path of self examination so you can clarify your core values. Clarity makes it easier for adjustment to take place, whether it is in leadership, the organizational culture or the business. In the early years of our lives, all throughout our learnings in school, we were taught about the principles of right and wrong. We were trained about what we ought to believe. Our knowledge may have laid the foundation for our values as adults, but in leadership, you have to stand your ground. Decide what values you want to adhere to, and your personal precepts and intentions have to be aligned with the principles of your organization.
10 Essential Core Values Of Effective Leadership
Make a clear distinction about what is right and what is wrong. Clarify your top 3 or 4 core values that will subsequently become the basis of your leadership decisions. Here are 10 essential leadership core values.
Leadership is not just about strategic planning. At the quintessence of effective leadership, you'll find core values, and it needs you to go deeper. Endeavoring to be an evolved and elegant leader needs you to go by the path of self examination so you can clarify your core values. Clarity makes it easier for adjustment to take place, whether it is in leadership, the organizational culture or the business. In the early years of our lives, all throughout our learnings in school, we were taught about the principles of right and wrong. We were trained about what we ought to believe. Our knowledge may have laid the foundation for our values as adults, but in leadership, you have to stand your ground. Decide what values you want to adhere to, and your personal precepts and intentions have to be aligned with the principles of your organization.
10 Essential Core Values Of Effective Leadership
Make a clear distinction about what is right and what is wrong. Clarify your top 3 or 4 core values that will subsequently become the basis of your leadership decisions. Here are 10 essential leadership core values.
- Honesty creates trust. Do you say what you mean and mean what you say? Your word, as your bond is also your code of honor.
- Courage makes you choose to stand up. You choose not to settle for slavery to others. Courage is the antidote to fear.
- Respect is kindness and gentleness. It is empathy to other people wherein you ask rather than tell. Lack of respect makes somebody coarse, crude and noisy.
- Hope makes you believe in a better tomorrow with your commitment to a better sense of purpose. Hope is the antidote to despair and surrender.
- Humility gives you the courage to accept your mistakes and search for the truth. It is the antithesis of hubris and arrogance.
- Hard work does not believe in entitlement which is the virus that destroys democracies.
- Personal accountability is taking ownership of the results. There's no blaming, whining or acting like a victim.
- Sincerity is being genuine, not changing with the winds. Hypocrites, demagogues and being political flout sincerity.
- Friendship caters to the essential needs of our humanity, but is sadly a missing element in organizations, businesses and the government. Having real friends makes a person more in touch with their humanity.
- Elegance is being kind, gracious and generous of spirit.
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Jodi and Mike specialize in executive coaching with individuals and teams. http://lighthouse-leadership.com
Jodi and Mike specialize in executive coaching with individuals and teams. http://lighthouse-leadership.com
