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Core Leadership Values | MasonLeads | George Mason University
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The Importance Of Core Leadership Values
Leaders facilitate others to contribute positively in a given context. Their core values inform their approach to leading. By focusing and positively building on what people believe and value, instead of simple problem-solving, leaders have the potential for far more wide impact.
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Core Leadership Values
1. Respect: being respectable and treating yourself and others, regardless of differences, with dignity, empathy and compassion.
2. Making a Difference: making a positive impact on the world around you.
3. Integrity: being moral, ethical and trustworthy.
4. Authenticity: being consistent, congruent and transparent in values, beliefs and actions while integrating those traits to your pursuit of growth.
5. Courage: acting intentionally for the common good, facing adversity and acting in the service of inclusion and justice.
6. Service: being humble and committing beyond self-interest for a greater cause.
7. Humility: being self-aware and not arrogant while open to different perspectives.
8. Wisdom: a broad understanding of human dynamics and an ability to balance the interests of multiple stakeholders when making decisions; can take a long term perspective in decision-making.
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Overlooking context
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Separate reflection from real work
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Your personal core values
... are there to guide behavior and choice.
Get them right and you'll be swift and focused in your decision-making, with clear direction.
Get them wrong...
5 Steps to Identify your values
- Think through and describe the following in detail: What have been your 3 greatest accomplishments and 3 greatest moments of efficiency and what are any common themes that you can identify?
- Think through and describe the following in detail: What have been your 3 greatest failures and 3 greatest moments of inefficiency and the common themes that you can identify?
- Identify 3-4 brief sentences of advice you would give to yourself based upon these commonalities.
- Try and reduce them to a few words.
- Test the value. Think of a situation where following your core value hurts you rather than helps you.