LEADERSHIP: CHARACTER
What areas of your character do you need to develop?
1. Good Character Builds Strong Trust.
Trust is a risk game. Leaders must be the first ones to ante-up. - Kouzes & Posner
How willing are you to share openly with others about when you have made a mistake? What was the result when you have?
Where do you need to ante-up to build greater trust with your team?
• I Thought Trust Was “Nice to Have”
• I Thought Trust Was Up to Others
• I Thought Trust Could Only Grow Slowly
• I Thought a Single Mistake Automatically Destroyed Trust
So much of leadership relies on good character.
Trust is created through it. Talent is protected by it. Internal peace is fostered by it.
Think of someone you trust the most, what makes them so trustworthy in your eyes?
How can you protect your character to ensure your leadership effectiveness?
What do you actively do to develop the trust of others?
2. Successful Leaders Embrace the Four Dimensions of Character.
• Authenticity
Authenticity Definition: to be true to your own personality, values, and spirit.
Share your experience with brokenness with someone you are trying to gain trust with.
• Self-management
Discuss this statement:
“We set young leaders up for a fall if we encourage them to envision what they can do before they consider the kind of person they should be.” - Ruth HaleyBarton
To keep grounded, I ask myself some questions:
Consistency: Am I the same person no matter who I am with?
Choices: Do I make decisions that are best for others even when another choice would benefit me?
Credit: Am I quick to recognize others for their efforts and contributions to my success?
• Humility
How would you define humility? Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
How do you develop humility? Knowing that the world does not revolve a round me. Thinking of other first and not myself.
• Courage
Courage: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.
Courage makes character possible. It is getting out of your comfort zone.
How has adversity shaped your character?
3. Character Makes You Bigger on the Inside than on the Outside.
The inner voice wants to make you bigger on the inside. The outer voice wants to make you bigger on the outside. The voice you listen to wins the battle. The outer voice encourages you to appear bigger on the outside, often at the expense of who you are on the inside.
EMBRACE GOOD VALUES
• What are your non-negotiables?
• What lines will you refuse to cross?
• What will you stand for?
• Has anything changed?
• Is there anything you would add?
• Anything you would remove?
PRACTICE SELF-LEADERSHIP
• What must you do to put yourself in better positions to manage your decisions and follow through with them?
VALUE PEOPLE
• What can you do every day to express value to another person, especially to people you don’t have an affinity for or don’t especially like?
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