HOW TO USE THIS LEADERSHIP TOOL
“Without principles we are leaves in the wind pushed in every direction by every new idea.”
—David BlyClarifying your personal leadership principles will:
✔ Develop your integrity as a leader.
✔ Clarify your leadership values, limits, and ethics.
✔ Help you explain your actions to others, including why you can’t do something they
might expect of you.
✔ Help you discuss underlying principles and needs, and avoid getting stuck on a posi-
tion or arguing alternatives.
✔ Help guide your decisions and choices.
✔ Help you coach others.
✔ Help you create unique responses in novel situations.WEB WORKSHEET
Don’t be limited by the list of leadership principles in the table already provided. Prepare your
own principles list. Since principles tend to be broad, overarching statements, make this list
tangible by noting actions that you will start doing, stop doing, and continue doing to demon-
strate each leadership principle within your workgroup or team.
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SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONALCONCEPTS 13
Actions you will Actions you will Actions you will
START doing to STOP doing to CONTINUE doing to
Your leadership demonstrate this demonstrate this demonstrate this
principle principle principle principle