5 Keys to Successful Self Leadership

Learning Success in life depends on your ability for, self leadership. You may say I am not a, leader, I am not a manager or a CEO true; but, self leadership, is more important than how many people you lead in your home or place of work.

Self leadership, is the answer to how do we develop ourselves to survive and thrive in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous world.

Self leadership,  is the Critical Success Factor for individual and organizational success.

Here are 5 Keys To Self Leadership 

Discipline #1 Accountability
You must learn to take full responsibility for everything on your watch. This means that the fish stinks from the head down! A great way to do this is with, self leadership, because those who follow you are watching your, leadership.

Discipline # 2 Focus
As a, Leader, you will wear many hats. Success comes from knowing where to focus your attention. Everything is important.
Acquiring the skill of discrimination allows the, leader, to discern what is most important and least important.

Discipline # 3 Organizational self leadership 

Organizational, self leadership,  is the skill through which chaos is turned into order.

Discipline # 4 Innovation
As a, leader, you will begin to consciously focus your attention and discriminate where the maximum leverage is.
You will recognize the need for continual improvement and for innovation in your processes.

Discipline # 5 Communication Skills 

Communication skills, are evident in how well you communicate your passion, vision, and mission to your employees, customers and self.

Here are 3 types of Self Ledership Communication Skills

Daphne’s talks to us about the keys to a successful mission driven life or business.
Since 90% of startup businesses fail, Daphne believes that the quality of life and business, leadership, is at the root of success or failure.
She believes that, leadership, is about using the most effective strategies to conquer obstacles while taking consistent steps to move forward when tackling your vision, whether that vision is within the workplace, as a leader of a business or, self leadership.

Daphne explains what is true, self leadership.

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8 C’s of Self Leadership

1. The 8 C’s of Self Leadership help us recognize how much of our “Self” is available to us in any moment.
2. Calmness – serenity regardless ofthecircumstances. The ability to react to triggers in your
   environment in less automatic and extreme ways.
3. Clarity – the ability to perceive situations accurately without distortion from extreme beliefs and
   emotions. Maintain objectivity about a situation in which one has a vested interest and recognize one’s own bias or preconception and then seek a deeper understanding.
4. Curiosity – a strong desire to know orlearn somethingnew about a topic, situation or person in
   a non-judgmental way. Willing to have a sense of wonder about the world and how things work
5. Compassion – to be open- heartedly present and appreciative of others and one’s self without
   feeling the urge to fix, change, distance, or judge. An intuitive understanding that the burdens or
   suffering of others affects you because of your connectedness to them.
6. Confidence – to maintain the ability to stay fully present in a situation and effectively handle or
   repair anything that happens. This allows you to have internalized the growth that comes from healing previous
   traumas and failures.
7. Courage – strength in the face of threat, challenge or danger. To take action toward a goal
   that others would find overwhelming. Taking complete responsibility for one’s actions and make
   amends to correct one’s errors, and the willingness to reflect upon and explore one’s inner world.
8. Creativity – the use of the imagination to produce original ideas. This is the ability to enter the “flow
   state” in which expression spontaneously flows out of us and we are immersed in the pleasure of the
   activity. Creating generative learning and solutions to problems alone or with others

Here are 11 strategies for effective, self leadership,  from Young Entrepreneur Council:

Leadership advice from Dale Carnegie

When managing my team, I use a tactic from Dale Carnegie: Think in terms of the other person’s wants. The goal is to align a team member’s natural talents and preferences with the company’s goals.

• What do they want?
• Learning what motivates them?
• Knowing what do they like to do?
• Then manage them to reinforce what they want and how they can achieve those things through their work.

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