Effective Leadership Is Leading From Core Values Within The Strategic Plan

Effective leadership begins and ends with the corerecognizes that the adoption of core values is a
values. Businesses or organizations with leadersgreat performance appraisal tool. If individuals are
who consistently demonstrate core values ornot performing according to the core values,
those non-negotiable behaviors will alwaysdiscussing their performance during those critical
outperform those where the values areappraisal interviews becomes far easier.
inconsistently not being demonstrated.Just imagine for a moment, if you as a business
One of my clients recently had to give aleader had everyone leading from a value
presentation to the employees of a company incentered position?
which he was just appointed president. This was- What would that mean for your business or
in an industry that has significant leadershiporganization?
problems. We worked together to create an- Would you have less redo's because value
effective speech using PowerPoint. (Executivecentered actions would become the prevailing
Coaching Tip: PowerPoint is a great tool to outlineattitudes or habits of thought as Zig Ziglar defined
a speech even if you are not using thisattitudes?
presentation tool to physically deliver the speech.)- Would you be able to focus more energies on
Within this presentation of 21 total slides, the slideachieving the desired results?
for what he perceived as the core values of theOf course, most businesses lack a strategic action
business was repeated 5 times. For his belief asplan that clearly articulates the core foundational
an effective leader is that he must lead first fromstatements including the values statement. This
these core values as should everyone else.may help to explain why many of these firms
Giving lip service to these values was not anhave failed to achieve their desired results.
option. His goal is that within 60 days everyoneP.S. Effective means doing the right thing and
will be able to repeat these core values and allshould not be confused with efficient which means
actions will be in alignment with these values.doing things right.
Also, this executive business coaching client