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3 Simple Ways To Become A Great Leader
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Becoming A Better Leader
- Read the life stories of those with leadership qualities that you admire and think about how to apply their lessons to your life.
- Analyze your key relationships regularly and resolve to live in truth with the most important people in your life.
- Keep your promises and commitments as part of your core values and leadership qualities.
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3 Areas Of Life To Develop Integrity
- Personal Life: refuse to say or do something that you don’t believe is right and refuse to tolerate or compromise in situations where you are unhappy with the behavior of another.
- Financial: Casualness toward money, yours or not, brings financial casualties. Fiercely guard your credit rating, pay your bills in time and keep your word on your financial commitments.
- Commitment To Others: Always keep your word, be trustworthy and honorable no matter the circumstances.
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Core Values in Leadership
Your greatest personal asset is the way that you are known to others through both your personal and business ethics. It is your personal reputation for keeping your word and fulfilling your commitments.
Your core values, business ethics, and leadership qualities precede you and affect all your interactions with others and they can be improved as they are acquired.
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The Importance Of Business Ethics
The way to becoming a great leader is through your core values, business ethics and leadership qualities which precede you in both your business and personal life.
Your business ethics are manifested in your willingness to adhere and keep to your core values. Doing so will make your character stronger and in consequence, every other part of your life will improve as well.
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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...
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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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.
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive..."
Jack Welch
Vision
Great leaders have a clear, exciting idea of where they are going. They are excellent at strategic planning.
While a manager gets the job done, great leaders tap into the emotions of their employees.
Winston Churchill
“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”