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The 4 Pillars of Self-Leadership: Time to Focus on You
Leadership And Self-Growth
Self-growth is about striving to improve yourself and develop a sense of accountability and responsibility for the right things.
Self-growth requires passion and a sense of curiosity, always asking questions, and learning about your industry and yourself. Another essential part of self-growth is learning how to embrace failure and seeing it as a learning opportunity.
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Authentic leadership
Is a management style in which leaders are genuine, self-aware, and transparent.
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Components of Authentic Leadership
- Self-Awareness: be aware of your trengths, weaknesses, and values and displaying them to your team.
- Relational Transparency: remain genuine, straightforward, and honest with your team. Display the behavior you hope to see in your employees.
- Balanced Processing: stick to your values when making decisions, but remain open to discussions and alternatve options.
- Doing the right thing: focus on doing the right thing for the long-term success of the business, not yours.
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive..."
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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.
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“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”
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Characteristics Of Authentic Leaders
- Rejecting the idea of adopting a different persona.
- Being self-aware and knowing their strengths and weaknesses.
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Measuring Leadership
An authentic leader inspires trust and loyalty in employees and has the ability to influence others and contribute to an organization's success. And all that can be learned and assessed.
Challenges To Authentic Leadership
Critics believe that authentic leadership can promote rigidity in those who use it as an excuse for not evolving their ideas following new challenges, experiences and insights.
Critics also say that authentic leadership's belief in presenting one's true self, and not a persona, can prevent someone from being an effective leader.