A Call to Lead

Reflections/thoughts? Which are the most important for your roles?

While we can work on our skills, leadership begins with inner work.

From their research, three foundational patterns emerged:

1. Courage and Authenticity: Having the courage to authentically be our whole selves, complete with strengths, vulnerabilities, and differences; having the courage to show up with openness and integrity.

2. Influence: Purpose-driven communication that inspires self and others to do what is genuinely important and meaningful for the long term.

3. Value Creation: Serving multiple constituencies—self, team, organization, community, and world—to sustain enduring performance and contribution.

1. Leadership is not just something we do. It comes from somewhere inside us. Leadership is a process, an intimate expression of who we are. It is our being in action. As we grow so shall we lead.

2. Kevin Cashman: Leadership is authentic self-expression that creates value. Anyone who is authentically self-expressing and adding value in an organization is leading. Some may self-express and create value through ideas, others through systems, others through people, but the essence is the same.

3. Personal reflection on the three findings (above) and the definition – why and how are they important?

4. Leadership is not merely a function of achieving things. It is principally about achieving one thing—consciously and courageously stepping into leadership and making a contribution by fully applying our potential.

5. Focus today is Personal and Being Mastery.

Personal Objectives

1. Now that you have a better understanding of the program/session, please reflect on what your objectives are for (1) Overall program and (2) This session.

2. Paired share/group debrief and sharing.