4. Authentic Leadership
Four Authentic Leadership components:
Self-awareness
Reflecting on one’s core values, identity, emotions, motives
Being aware of and trusting your own feelings
Internalized moral perspective
Self-regulatory process using internal moral standards to guide behavior
Balanced processing
Ability to analyze informational objectively and explore other people’s opinions before
making a decision
- Relational transparency
Being open and honest in presenting one’s true self to others
5. Trust: The Essence of Leadership
Integrity
Competence
Consistency
Loyalty
Openness
Willing to be vulnerable
Ability to gain knowledge and creative thinking
In times of change and instability, people turn to personal relationships
6. Charismatic Leadership
Charismatic leadership as “resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an
individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him.
Key Characteristics:
Vision and articulation.: Has a vision – expressed as an idealized goal that proposes a future better than the status
quo; and is able to clarify the importance of the vision in terms that are understandable to others
Personal risk : Willing to take on high personal risk , incur high costs, and engage in self-sacrifice to achieve the
vision
Sensitivity to follower needs : Perceptive of other’s abilities and responsive to their needs and feelings
Unconventional Behavior: Engages in behaviors that are perceived as novel and counter to norms.
11. Conclusion
You don’t need a title to be a leader.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
Anyone can hold the helm when the see is calm.
Leadership is influence.
A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way.
