Influencing Excellence
How can you influence excellence in your leadership? By creating your professional significance. This can be done by developing the characteristics of I-CARE - the Influencing Characteristics and Accountable Relationships for Excellence. I-CARE is not a magic formula, but it provides the key characteristics to develop personal and professional significance that influence excellence in your leadership and in your organization. Your organization is only as good as your leadership. Your organization's excellence depends on your leadership excellence.
Your professional significance is determined by your Influencing Characteristics and Accountable Relationships toward Excellence.
I-CARE
The Four Is
Significant leaders are transformational leaders.
- Idealized Influence. Significant leaders are the model for others to follow.
- Inspirational Motivation. Significant leaders are the inspiration for others to aspire.
- Intellectual Stimulation. Significant leaders challenge the status quo.
- Individual consideration. Significant leaders value everyone and their value.
The Four Cs
Significant leaders commit, communicate, lead with character, and are curious.
- Commitment. Significant leaders commit to the one important thing.
- Communication. Significant leaders connect with energy.
- Character. Significant leaders choose their identifying marks.
- Curious. Significant leaders master the art of asking why.
The Four As
Significant leaders lead with accountability, attentiveness, adaptability, and agility.
- Accountability. Significant leaders are able to be counted on.
- Attentive. Significant leaders are available, accessible, and approachable.
- Adaptive. Significant leaders adapt to the changes within them and around them.
- Agility. Significant leaders respond to change quickly.
The Four Rs
Significant leaders respectful, responsive, resilient, and resourceful.
- Respect. Significant leaders are quick to restore broken links of respect and trust.
- Responsiveness. Significant leaders choose to respond timely and with thought.
- Resilience. Significant leaders bounce back from setbacks and build resilience in others.
- Resourcefulness. Significant leaders foster relationships for resourcefulness.
The Four Es
Significant leaders bring energy, energize others, pay attention to make great decisions, and execute to get things done.
- Energy. Significant leaders bring energy.
- Energizing. Significant leaders energize others.
- Executive Function. Significant leaders control their attention to make great decisions.
- Execute. Significant leaders get things done through other people.
If you would like to increase your leadership significance and your influence of leadership excellence reach out to me at eric@drericlake.com.
