#LeadershipTuesdays: Respect...Annie Gottlieb

”Respect is an appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”

—Annie Gottlieb

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB
Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me
Sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little respect”

—Aretha Franklin


Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today’s feature focuses on the need for respect in our society and workplace.

Respect. A value forever immortalized in the lyrics and music of the late great Aretha Franklin is one of the most important values in a civil society. It is necessary for productive public discourse, private and workplace interactions, political debates and community protests. What should be the basic ingredient of all of our relationships is the thing that is most lacking in a lot of what we see displayed on television, at rallies, and in the workplace. We lack respect for different views and people who disagree with us.

Our leaders are tasked with changing this and not being complicit in encouraging the negative behaviors that are destroying our society. As a leader, you are required to set a tone of respect for everyone in the organization. There is never a good reason to disrespect someone no matter what they have or may have done. 

In today’s featured article, the author S. Chris Edmonds says, “Regardless of how society around them continues to accept divisive behaviors and polarizing personalities as normal, today’s and tomorrow’s employees expect good behaviors -- integrity, dignity and respect -- from their employer.”

Senior leaders must set the tone for respectful interactions and discourse. Respect must also be an organizational behavior that is highly valued and demonstrated by managers and employees. Things don’t just happen, people make them happen. Good values don’t just happen in an organization, good people create environments where good values are both demonstrated and practiced.

Read It's Time For Business Leaders To Put Good First. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, check us out on Twitter: @LeadershipTues.

#LeadershipTuesdays: Want To Be A Great Leader?

Great leaders have integrity.

Full stop period. They are not perfect, but they are motivated by core beliefs and values that are based on truth. No matter what you see and hear in the press, most people want leaders who possess and consistently act with integrity.

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today's Leadership Tuesdays' post talks about the importance of leaders modeling integrity within the organization. 

In order to have integrity in your organization, you as a leader must communicate your expectations, demonstrate your values, and correct behavior that is inconsistent with a comitment to integrity. Anything less leaves the door open for behavior that will eventually manifest itself in acts that are detrimental to others and the organization.

Integrity has the opposite effect. Integrity builds trust. It builds trust and currency within and outside of the organization. People are willing to be patient in difficult times when you have built trust with them through your consistent commitment to them and truth-telling.

Check out today's resource on building trust and maintaining integrity within your organization:

"Trust and Integrity – The Core of Leadership" by Karen Colligan 

For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, click here. 

by Nona O., Founder, womenatliberty.com

Preparation For Defining Moments...Nona

Prepare your children to make tough decisions by teaching them values, helping them to understand their own strengths and weaknesses and showing them how to empathize with others.

--Nona O. 

Accept The Challenge...Kilroy J. Oldster

"The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values."

--Kilroy J. Oldster

From "Mission Impossible", TV series

Pursue What Matters!...Tim Hiller

"External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds."

--Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters

Shalane Flanagan (second from left) competes during the 2017 New York City Marathon.

Picture credit: Wired Magazine, "DO NIKE'S NEW MARATHON SHOES ACTUALLY MAKE YOU RUN FASTER?"
https://www.wired.com/story/do-nike-zoom-vaporfly-make-you-run-faster/

What Are You Doing?...Raheel Farooq

"We talk what we think but do what we believe."

--Raheel Farooq

#LeadershipTuesdays: I Lead By Example...@vnona

"I am an example of what I seek in the world. My actions are an example of my core values and beliefs. I lead by example."

-- Nona Ogunsula, Founder, womenatliberty.com and Women Making History

On Tuesdays, womenatliberty.com presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. To view the recent profile of April Reign, an attorney, activist, social media strategist and the creator of the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, click here.

For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, go to: womenatliberty.com.

Get Your Mind Right!...@vnona

"It's very hard to live a life that is incongruent with your true feelings. That's why it is important to base your life on strong foundational principles. These principles will shape your beliefs. Your feelings and behavior will eventually come into alignment with what you believe."

--Nona O., Founder, womenatliberty.com

Tell TheTruth!

One of the things we learn very early is the truth matters. As we go through life, we learn a lot of things about people and values. But the thing that does not change over time is our expectations regarding the truth. We respect people who tell the truth even if we do not like them.

--Nona O.

Your Behavior Speak Volumes...@vnona

The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  

--Matthew 12:34b, NIV, The Bible

My Anchor Holds & Keeps Me Steady...Ed Miliband

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

 

--Ed Miliband

 

#LeadershipTuesdays: Majority Rules Are Not Always Best...Leo Tolstoy

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today's Leadership Tuesdays will focus on the subject of business ethics.  Our news headlines are filled with stories of individuals who have made bad decisions because of lapses in judgement and gotten caught in criminal investigations that led to trials and jail time.  Some of the people are prominent politicians, some are corporate executives, and some are everyday people like you and me. As the author of today's featured article intimated, learning business ethics or ethical practices is an ongoing process. It's not easy to always make the right decision. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. 

However, when making any type of decision that may involve potential ethical violations, it helps to have a strong ethical foundation. Angelia White, the author of the blog, "5 Basic Business Ethics Tips", gives us a very practical definition of business ethics and great examples of how she approaches situations in the workplace as an employer, business owner, and leader. At the end of the article she gives advice on some tools that will help strengthen you in your practice of business ethics and help you  protect yourself from those who would violate business ethics at your expense.

Angelia White is Publisher, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Hope for Women Magazine. Her passionate dedication towards the Magazine has been evolving for almost a decade. She has a background in publishing and is owner and president of Virtuous Publications, Inc., which serves as the Magazine’s publishing company. Angelia has over 20 years experience in business administration and is a business graduate of Ball State University.

To view today's article click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays or WOMEN AT LIBERTY, click here. 

Leadership Tuesdays: What Are Your Values?

Leaders know what they value. They also recognize the importance of ethical behavior. The best leaders exhibit both their values and their ethics in their leadership style and actions.

--Susan M. Heathfield, from the article, "Leadership Values and Ethics, Secrets of Leadership Success"

Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com presents #LeadershipTuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today's focus is on what we value and specifically, our "core values". Core values are traits or qualities that you consider not just worthwhile, they represent an individual's or organization's highest priorities, deeply held beliefs, and core, fundamental driving forces.[1] 

Successful leaders are people whose leadership and behavior are guided by their core values. Their followers are drawn to them based on how the leader lives out what they believe. 

Check out Susan M. Heathfield's article, Leadership Values and Ethics, Secrets of Leadership Success for a discussion on what causes distrust in organizations and characteristics of successful leadership. Remember, as John Maxwell says, everything rises and falls on leadership. If we are going to be effective leaders who are equipped to address and solve some of our toughest organizational, business, social, national and/or community problems, we must build trust, behave ethically, and work for the common good.

To read past Leadership Tuesdays' features on how to manage your personal brand, the positive use of power or resilience, click here and search for #LeadershipTuesdays.

Notes:
[1] Core Values Are What You Believe By Susan M. Heathfield, http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryc/g/Core-Values.htm