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Leading by Personal Example: Defining Your Core Values / Creating Your Leadership Statement. CSUN EY Professional Leadership Seminar—Fall 2008 Barbara L. Lazarony. When you get to the pearly gates…. Essence:.
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Leading by Personal Example: Defining Your Core Values / Creating Your Leadership Statement CSUN EY Professional Leadership Seminar—Fall 2008 Barbara L. Lazarony
Essence: “The most significant element, quality, or aspect of a thing or person.” --Miriam-Webster Dictionary Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus:
Are you a Human Thinking? (Skills & Talents) Are you a Human Feeling? (Core Values) Are you a Human Doing? (Instinct & Drive) Are you a Human Being? (Essence) Three Parts of the Mind, One Step Further
What shows up when I do? Or What qualities enter the room when I do? Is there anything else? And… Thank you (Look directly into their eyes!) --From Rosie Kuhn & Todd Zimmerman, ITP Coaching Program Group Exercise using + adjectives or word phrases
This exercise points us towards our essence…but it is not our essence. Barbarais… (I am…) Warmth Compassion Energy Cheerfulness Playful Brilliant Barbara’s Essence Collage
What would life “be” like if You lived from your “essence” as a leader? “Please…tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.” -- Gary Zukav
Identify your top “5” core values, in only five minutes… • Acceptance • Achievement • Admiration • Adventure • Attention • Balance • Comfort • Community • Competition • Confidence • Connected • Contribution • Control • Creativity • Education • Empathy • Empowerment • Excellence • Fairness • Family • Flexibility • Freedom • Friendship • Fun • Genuineness • Harmony • Happiness • Health or Fitness • Honesty • Independence • Integrity • Intimacy • Job/ Career • Leisure • Love • Loyalty • Make a difference • Money • Nature • Needed • Passion • Peace • Personal Growth • Praise • Prove a point • Recognition • Respect • Risk • Safety • Security • Service • Solitude • Spirituality • Status • Structure • Success • Time • Trust • Truth • Understood • Unique • Valued • Wisdom
Leadership "you” Vision Boards Who steers Your “leadership”? • Using: • Poster Board: 22"X 28" (minimum size) • Rubber Cement • & Photographs, Words, Symbols, Quotes, Magazines cutouts, etc. • Create: • A Vision Board that describes who you want to become as a leader • Incorporating all of whom you’d like to become, including your thinking, feeling, doing and being self. • There may be many people who inspire you and that is excellent, but the question remains… • Who do you want to become?
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,committed citizens can change the world.Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead Thank you!