Inspiring Lives Magazine Spring 2017: Issue 4 | Page 44
BUSINESS
to achieve inner driven leadership? If not, think about
doing so.
The last of the personal competencies is authenticity.
Leaders who are authentic are self-aware and align their
core values and their personal mission. This alignment
allows for a unified leadership style. For example, let us
say one of your core values is honesty, a very common
core value. While at work, your boss tells you to lie and
change some of the numbers on an accounting report to
show a loss less than reality. This situation would proba-
bly distress you. Why? Because this goes against one of
your fundamental core values, honesty.
To achieve authenticity, your core values and personal
mission must be in alignment. So, the question is—Are
your core values, personal mission statement, and lead-
ership style in alignment? If not, determine what is out
of sync and try to realign them. Inner driven leadership
is truly effective when in complete alignment with who
you are and what you seek.
Today we took the first steps toward becoming inner
driven leaders. We did so by recognizing our top five
core values, which gave us insight into understanding
who we are. Next, we developed our personal mission
statement, which guided us toward recognizing our
purpose. And, last, we have hopefully achieved au-
thenticity by aligning our core values with our personal
mission. Take time now to reflect on what you have
discovered and try to blend this insight with your cur-
rent leadership style.
As I mentioned earlier, this is the first of a three-part
series about inner driven leadership. My next article
will discuss the second competency of inner driven
leadership: social competency. Here we will discuss
communication and its impact on leadership. In ad-
dition, we will talk about teamwork and mentorship.
Many leaders I work with believe they are mentoring
when they are actually not! Could you be one of those
leaders? Find out in the second part of the series. You
do not want to miss it! n
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