"How are values critical to leadership and what are my
own personal values?"
Being a leader values
are critical and personal values make you into the leader you are today. I think motivation is important to express
when learning critical values in leadership and being a cognitive thinker. When
an individual has motivation they feel they can overcome anything and be successful.
With motivation those critical values of leadership such as purpose, empowering,
ethical, inclusive and process-oriented will become internal in you. These five
components will help you have knowledge of self, conscious of your environment,
open-minded, sensitive to others, seeing clearly, respecting others and being
aware. I think before having knowledge of critical values we must have self-awareness.
Self-awareness helps identify your strengths, weakness, self-concepts, self-esteem
and personal identify. In leadership it is critical to be responsible because
everyone has self-control, internal motivation and is responsible for their own
actions; so blame yourself before blaming others.
One of the most
important personal values to me is honesty. Having a healthy honest
relationship also starts with knowledge of self and openness to appreciate and
respect others. Most people cannot be honest because they are thinking what
someone else is thinking about them or being social ably acceptable. We have to
find out who we are by listening to ourselves, identifying satisfaction of
accomplishment, knowing what you find easy to grasp, studying your mistakes,
acknowledging your success and labeling them can help with confidence and self-esteem.
Honesty or being trustworthy helps individuals feel comfortable and confident
having moral conversations with others. Moral conversation is another way of
being aware of the different views of others by sharing stories, religion,
politics, social class, ethnic, and cultural content. In the text it states
that the “Golden Rule” was to listen to others as we would want to be listened too.
But having moral conversation and listening we always should “only have conversational
starter’s not conversational stoppers” leaving the person with integrity.
Some other personal values
other than I mentioned like trustworthy or responsibility are fairness, caring,
citizenship and faith. These values help
me understand my personal preferences and how I will function in the real world
and how I am perceived by others being introverted. Some of my values are so resilient
I am uncomfortable with psychological study of individuality because focusing
on my own needs or on myself is considered selfish in my family and culture.
Personal preferences and psychological types are supposed to tell you about yourself
such extravert, introvert, sensing, intuitive, feeling, thinking, judging, or
perceiving helping you become more self-aware. We all have different grouping preferences
to leadership and it’s important to have knowledge of others personality preference’s
to avoid conflict having a more open-mind and understanding of others.
