Leadership: Be Honest with Yourself
- Start by being honest with yourself. Be truthful about your strengths, your weakness, your limitations, your personality, and your character. Be who you are and who you can become with God’s transforming power, but do not become a caricature of someone else. This is self-awareness.
- So be ever vigilant in your understanding of yourself. Take a variety of self-assessments, and compare their results. Become comfortable with one and makes its language common place in your speech and practice. Submit yourself to a regular review from your supervisor and other team members.
- Open yourself up to the scrutiny and feedback from your family and friends. Self-honesty comes from a teachable heart that listens to and learns how to improve from the perspective of your peers. Honesty means you confess what you don’t know. You don’t pretend to have all the answers, but you humbly seek to define the right questions. Validate with others who know you well about what you do best. Is it analyzing data, writing, leading, strategic thinking, networking, communicating, recruiting, managing, nurturing relationships, support, planning, or implementing, just to name a few?
- Discover what you do best and where you have the most passion; then focus your time and attention in these areas. It takes honesty to not do what you enjoy when you are only average in its outcome. But your courage and trust in others to carry out the interesting task will bring about the best result for everyone.
- Be honest with yourself by:
- • Taking proven self assessments--this gives you facts and understanding.
- • Asking for regular feedback--this gives you objective input and instruction.
- • Focusing on what you do best--this leverages your time and
- promotes the best stewardship of your skills, gifts, talents, and abilities.
- Am I self-aware? Do I need to submit to a 360° performance evaluation?
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