Leader P.O.V.®

Developing leader skills requires a complex, multifaceted, and ongoing process of inquiry, discovery, application, and evaluation.  This includes a large dose of trial and error, risk taking, and candid self-assessment. 

The Connected Leadership Journal can help you discover, clarify, and articulate your Leader P.O.V.® - your personal leadership philosopy.  

Using the power of reflective practice the leader looks inward, evaluates defining experiences, challenges, and opportunities and examines one's leader self-identity.  Journaling is a proven reflective practice that helps you to retain information, better integrate new ideas and practices into daily work habits, and synthesize old learning with new learning.  Most importantly, the activity of reflecting on key insights helps to clarify and strengthen your leader self-identity—which has been associated with leader emergence and performance.  

The Leader P.O.V.® is a highly personalized philosophy of leadership that has been shaped by prior experiences and changed, clarified, or strengthened by insights gained from journaling and new learning.  

It conveys the essence of your leadership philosophy to a reader or listener.  It should help others know:

• What you believe to be the role, responsibilities, and relationship of leaders and followers.

• How you personally define leadership.  

• Why you initially chose to be a leader and continue to choose to serve in this role.

• What you hope to accomplish as a leader – your leadership intention. 

• Your beliefs, guiding principles, philosophy, and non-negotiable expectations that influence who you are as a leader and what you expect of supervisors, peers, and followers. 

• How you conceptualize who you are as a leader and the leader you aspire to be.    

Leader P.O.V.® Statements often also include insights about how you plan to pursue leadership mastery and strengthen your leader effectiveness by:

• Routinely examining – the values, guiding principles, strengths and weaknesses of yourself and others, and context of the environment and times in which you lead.

• Actively exploring and learning from: historical and contemporary leaders; the lessons of success and failure from inside and outside of your teams, your organization, your industry, or profession; and the opinions and logic of those who agree and those who disagree with you.

• Enlisting others through a clearly defined and articulated vision that generates emotions and engagement, challenges thinking, and fosters commitment.

• Relentlessly executing in ways that guide the selection of the highest leverage priorities and that foster accountability for results over effort.