Reliability – Basis for Trust 267- Envisioning—looking towards the future and identifying and op-
timistic and achievable outcome, and helping the other person
envisioning the benefits of that outcome. - Committing—both parties agree and commit to move toward the
envisioned future.^217
21.2.4 Four Questions
While all kinds of attempts are made to standardize and quantify
core ethical values for proper leadership styles^218 , the key question in
terms of reliability for the author’s perspectives seems to be related to
four questions
a) How are leadership values such as credibility, honesty and trust-
worthiness part of regular training, coaching and corporate ethi-
cal standards in associations of senior leaders?
b) How are standards of reliability related to spiritual values and at-
titudes which are embedded in different religious traditions
which inform the interpretative minds and codes of conducts of
people, as without serious spiritual grounding value based con-
cepts of leadership training seem to remain vague and shallow?
c) How are reliability standards spelled out in different realms of
senior leadership (reliability in terms of time management, relia-
bility in terms of accountability and tracking of decisions; relia-
bility in terms of asset management; reliability and seriousness
on CSR projects)
d) How are reliability standards of leadership exercised and meas-
ured in relation to external partners in civil society, governments,
monitoring agencies?
217
218 http://www.quickmba.com/mgmt/leadership/trusted-leader/^
See the so-called MLQ program: http://www.statisticssolutions.com/ multi-
factor-leadership-questionnaire-mlq/; see also:
http://www.mindgarden.com/documents/MLQGermanPsychometric.pdf