authentic leadership
Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
The topic of discussion for this week is “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership”. When discovering your Authentic Leadership, you have to look in your inner self and be the best and stand out from other leaders. No one can be an authentic leader by trying to imitate someone else characteristics of becoming a great leader. The respect level is way higher when you are yourself instead of trying to be like another leader. Being authentic doesn’t mean you are perfect, it means to build the leader’s legitimacy through relationships with followers that are honest, value follower input, and build on an ethical foundation. Being a leader is in all of us as stated by Young &Rubicam chairman and CEO Ann Fudge, said, “All of us have the spark of leadership in us, whether it is in business, in government, oars a nonprofit volunteer”. The characteristic of a leader are learned not given you have to experience failure and success at the same time you are progressing to be a strong and authentic leader. When discovering your authentic leadership it involves a huge commitment and the understanding of yourself. You have to develop yourself and create a blueprint on how to be an effective leader. Your life story has an effect on how strong you will be as you embark on being a leader, everyone has a story and most leaders remember when they didn’t have, or someone they really wanted there wasn’t there for support, role models they looked up too as well. You have to realize your potential and that life goes on you have to live you have to make decisions in life to accommodate you in the future. Some key points in your life story are unexpected deaths, illnesses and being rejected by your own peers make you stronger but makes you weak but you cannot show your weakness never. Authentic leaders lead by example, make a difference and be a philosopher to the younger peers in his/her team to create a power team to become the best that you all can be.
The topic of discussion for this week is “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership”. When discovering your Authentic Leadership, you have to look in your inner self and be the best and stand out from other leaders. No one can be an authentic leader by trying to imitate someone else characteristics of becoming a great leader. The respect level is way higher when you are yourself instead of trying to be like another leader. Being authentic doesn’t mean you are perfect, it means to build the leader’s legitimacy through relationships with followers that are honest, value follower input, and build on an ethical foundation. Being a leader is in all of us as stated by Young &Rubicam chairman and CEO Ann Fudge, said, “All of us have the spark of leadership in us, whether it is in business, in government, oars a nonprofit volunteer”. The characteristic of a leader are learned not given you have to experience failure and success at the same time you are progressing to be a strong and authentic leader. When discovering your authentic leadership it involves a huge commitment and the understanding of yourself. You have to develop yourself and create a blueprint on how to be an effective leader. Your life story has an effect on how strong you will be as you embark on being a leader, everyone has a story and most leaders remember when they didn’t have, or someone they really wanted there wasn’t there for support, role models they looked up too as well. You have to realize your potential and that life goes on you have to live you have to make decisions in life to accommodate you in the future. Some key points in your life story are unexpected deaths, illnesses and being rejected by your own peers make you stronger but makes you weak but you cannot show your weakness never. Authentic leaders lead by example, make a difference and be a philosopher to the younger peers in his/her team to create a power team to become the best that you all can be.