Skills for Career Success

SKILL 32

Lead Self

Your leadership skills are critical whether you have a designated leadership role or you are an informal leader in your organization. It begins with how you lead your own life and focuses on behaviors that create your foundation for leadership. You need to listen to yourself to reveal your values, personal purpose, and vision that you have for yourself. Harvard’s Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky (2002) describe it as your ability to simultaneously stand on the balcony and observe yourself on the dance floor. Spending time alone to think about your day, how you reacted to events, how what you are doing aligns with your purpose, ...