Leadership is Values

Leadership values start with self-awareness.  Why start with self-awareness?  Well, values are the core of your being.  Values define how you choose to live and proceed in life’s decisions.  They are the foundation for your being.  Values are sometimes overlooked while we pursue happiness.  It is in times that we are unhappy that we might reflect and wonder why.  So, asking a few questions will help frame our values.  For instance, we can ask the following questions:

• What's important to me?
• What is my passion?
• What do you enjoy reading that brings excitement to you?
• What do you want to change in your life?
• How about changing yourself?
• What makes you smile?
• What makes you proud?
• At what points in life were you truly happy?

So, as we dive deeper into values, I will share my own as an example.

• Listen Actively
• Earn Respect
• Accountability Now
• Deliver Quality
• Earn Loyalty
• Reflect Integrity
• Self Develop

As you can see, I love leadership and leaders, hence the first letters spell LEADERS.  These are core values I like to focus on to develop into a better person and leader.  As we pursue goals in life, it is important as a leader to take time to understand our values.  We should do this to not only understand ourselves better but so we can see the values of others and lead better to deliver success.  Thoughts?  Thanks.

Mike

www.bleadersedge.com

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Understanding Leadership Values

Leadership is Listening

Leadership must practice active listening to understand the needs of upcoming leaders.  As new leaders strive to engage experienced leaders, active listening is critical to ensure investments in leadership development are not departing to other organizations.  Leaders can practice active listening by:

Importance of Listening in Leadership

• Paying full attention;
• Processing the message;
• Monitor body actions;
• Process vocal tones; and
• Adapting to understand the point of the message.

Great leaders must listen daily to help others grow into tomorrow’s leaders.  Active listening is an early step to building the core relationships with upcoming leaders.  Being a great active listener will build:

• Rapport;
• Trust;
• Respect;
• Confidence; and
• Engagement.

That last item is talked about a lot in today’s leadership industry.  Lack of engagement starts with not listening to the needs of rising leadership stars.  Strong leaders MUST actively listen to better understand upcoming leaders:

• Objectives;
• Leadership development needs;
• Positional wants;
• Promotional timelines; and
• Career expectations.

Leaders will face challenges daily to engage leadership teams.  But at the foundation, active listening will provide the basis for great leadership to identify opportunities for engagement and lead upcoming leaders to fulfillment.  Thanks.

Mike

www.bleadersedge.com

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Leadership is Discipline

Leaders must have discipline!  I am not talking punishment, but rather the body of knowledge.  Discipline is a key leadership trait.  Leaders who are not disciplined will not succeed.  Great leaders continually self-develop, adding to their discipline.  A strong knowledge base will provide leaders with the understanding to perform during critical situations.  For instance, leaders might rely on discipline for:

• Instilling team action;
• Inspiring others;
• Motivating team members;
• Commitment;
• Accountability; and
• Adaptation.

These are a few areas where leadership discipline will benefit leadership success.  Areas that leaders can extend their influential leadership discipline include:

• Formal education;
• Industry-recognized training;
• Reading leadership publications, and
• Practice.

Leaders who continually add knowledge to their discipline will continue to grow and identify new techniques to challenge teams to deliver in new and exciting ways.  Leadership is continuously growing, and leaders can stay abreast by consistently adding to their discipline.  Thanks.

Mike

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