What is Values-Based Leadership?
9 Essential Traits for Your Success
(Successful Values-based Leaders)
What is Values-Based Leadership?
Values-based leadership is an active commitment to stated values.
Values-based leaders serve people, social issues, and the environment. They support their organization’s foundational guiding principles to promote fairness, openness, and trust. Values-based leaders support individual and societal growth, innovation, and performance.
Today’s workforce is attracted to organizations that incorporate values-based leadership. Why? We believe that motivated employees want to serve organizations whose values align with their own.
For many decades, senior management’s hiring practices assessed candidates on their education, social skills, and perceived business knowledge. Scant attention was paid to job candidates’ values and their commitment to serve others. Interestingly, those who had served in the military were desirable candidates as leaders. It was assumed they had learned and adopted values of respect, integrity, service to others, and courage.
For many years, corporations have not perceived a pressing need to develop company-wide values-based leadership as part of their employee growth, DEI and Succession Planning initiatives. About 25 years ago, Boards of Directors and graduate schools began to include servant and values-based leadership principles in case study discussions. Prior to that, leadership service and ethics had been ignored – often with catastrophic outcomes.
Values-based leadership principles build character and leadership traits. These traits generate meaningful employee cultural inclusion in the workplace and build customer trust.
“Management is doing things right,
Leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter Drucker
American Management Consultant
1909-2005
Antrim Consulting has worked with Fortune 1000, governmental entities, not-for-profit, and business leaders for 20+ years. Many have empowered a new generation of values-based leaders with startling results.
Antrim Consulting is ready to help you develop a customized value-based leadership culture. We know it will rapidly increase employee, customer, and industry respect.
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Benefits of Values-Based Leadership
Character and leadership embody different traits. When these traits are combined, values-based leaders provide others with a sense of well-being, self-confidence, and an ability to shine.
Throughout history, military leaders gained fame with their character and leadership. Corporate leaders are not at war, but they are, in fact, in a battle to win the hearts and minds of employees, customers, and the community, at large.
Ingenuity: ability to adapt and accept the reality of change
Heroism: skill to motivate self with a desire for excellence
Love: capability to extend dignity and recognize the potential in others and acting on it
Jesuit Approach to Leadership
5 Character Traits of
Values-Based Leaders
1. Demonstrate Respect: respectful communication builds long-term cultural workplace inclusion
2. Maintain Fairness: fairness begins with equitable hiring, compensation, and training practices and meets the 21st Century workforce demands
3. Display Integrity: values-based leaders are approachable, open-minded, truthful, trustworthy, and reliable
4. Embed Excellence: values-based leaders are competent. They raise the bar for excellence in others
5. Exude Courage: values-based leaders don’t flinch. In a crisis, they spring into action and innovate!
4 Leadership Traits of Values-Based Leaders
1. Capacity to Empower
Values-based leaders possess high EQs/Emotional Intelligence[1]
Employees imitate values-based leaders’ behavior!
2. Develops Others
Values-based leaders create cohesive cultures
They involve others in learning and stimulate issue-related brainstorming
3. Change and Results-Oriented
Values-based leaders identify and meet required change needs
They assess growth opportunities, productivity, and individual performance
4. Active Listeners
Values-based leaders are superb communicators
They skillfully reiterate what others say and always look for additional insights
For over 20 years, our work at Antrim Consulting has been centered on the growth of individuals and a commitment to embed values-based leadership across organizations.
Antrim Consulting will enjoy working with your leadership team to identify and develop values-based leadership traits for your organization.
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Footnotes:
[1] Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skills