design Your Personal Leadership Philosophy

An effective leadership philosophy is different than your personal purpose, values, and valued behaviors. While your leadership philosophy will be built upon the foundation your clear personal purpose and values statement creates, it is specific to your leadership efforts (in the workplace, in a community organization, wherever you are taking a leadership role).

Let's define an effective leadership philosophy as a values-aligned statement that helps you inspire consistent high performance and positive relationships with all of your team members, every day. It is NOT espousing leadership theories from recent business book (or even HBRs readings). Rather, it is developing your own personal, authentic, philosophy that derives from your core beliefs.

As a leader, what are your highest values? oWhat's the contribution you want to make as a leader oWhatmakesyoudistinctasaleader? oDrawing fromStrengthsFinder 2.0what are your strengths as a leader? oDescribe your plan for building trust, showing compassion, providing stability and

creating hope? oWhat are five words or phrases people would use to describe your leadership style?oHow would people of different levels describe their relationship with you? oHowareyoubuildingyourinfluencingcapital? oHowdoyouwanttotreatpeople? oHow will you build your team? oHow will you ensure your team's engagement? oHowdoyouapproach(anddelegate)tasks?

oWhat are you doing to continually build your leadership capacity?oWhat do you want your legacy to be?

Some of you may find inspiration and guidance in the following

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/leboeuf.htm. This paper should include a separate one pagePersonal Leadership Statement(see

http://www.academyleadership.com/LeadershipPhilosophy/ )click on "View Samples" to download some examples.

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