Why Our Values Must Be Backed by Action

Why Our Values Must Be Backed by Action

The basis of leadership is trust. In his book The Speed of Trust, Stephen M. R. Covey explains, ‘Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up. This creates a trust tax. When trust goes up, speed...
How Values Keep Us On Track As Leaders

How Values Keep Us On Track As Leaders

In their book The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain that, ‘Leadership begins with a belief in yourself and continues only if other people believe in you.’ To believe in you, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and (2)...
Owning Your Values As a Leader

Owning Your Values As a Leader

The beginning of the leadership journey is defining clearly who you are, what you stand for and what your deepest values are — in short, your leadership philosophy. However, simply defining your leadership values is not enough. You also must actually live those...
The smart way to choose your values

The smart way to choose your values

 The Power of Growth Values The process of personal development is about overcoming our subconscious programming and conditioned responses and living from consciously chosen values that help us grow. Growth values, which pull us in the direction of our conscious or...
Why we can’t transform without self-compassion

Why we can’t transform without self-compassion

 The Inner Judge One of the greatest obstacles of personal growth is the ‘inner judge’ in our mind: a voice of self-criticism that constantly influences our life through opinions, advice, warnings, suggestions, beliefs, evaluations, and admonishments about all aspects...