Best Practice 3 – Influencer of Inspiration and Leadership™
This practice concerns the ability to build positive, meaningful relationships with energy, place leadership emphasis on people for positive outcomes, recognize, acknowledge and inspire others, enable others to lead through positive modeling, and to be humble with a fierce resolve for each person’s success. A Legacy Leader understands that we cannot NOT influence, and therefore becomes an intentional influencer. It is about having a consciousness that all that we do influences, even when we aren’t aware of it. In all we do, we will either influence in a positive or negative way.
Critical Success Strategies: Core Competencies
Legacy Leaders are trailblazers, forging the path to great leadership with positive influence so that everyone is lifted up to be the best he or she can be. People are invited, not commanded, to contribute from their strengths and are filled with energy to deliver high-quality outcomes. This leader is self-inspired and knows what inspires others. Influencing inspiration requires including the heart in all processes, connecting personally with others, and valuing them individually and corporately.
- Be very adept at developing and maintaining relationships.
- Use emotional intelligence and positive energy to influence others.
- Choose to model the positive perspective in all situations.
- Bring out the best in people.
- Constantly acknowledge and recognize the attributes and contributions of others.
- Intentionally delegate for the development of others.
- Lead with a constant focus on showcasing others, not self.
- Have the ability and courage to take risks and inspire others to follow.
- Be able to make tough decisions with minimal negative impact.
- Lead with humility and unwavering resolve to accomplish the goals of the organization through others.
Attitudes of an Influencer of Inspiration and Leadership
Among the long list of qualities and attitudes of a great leader in this Legacy Practice we would expect to find such things as humble, inspirational, others- centered, passionate, and an opportunity seeker (for others), to name just a few. However, we have already stated that Legacy Leaders have a solid platform of attitudes that set them apart from all other leaders. This leader intentionally influences others through a set of both natural and highly refined basic attitudes.
- Relationship-Driven
This person is not just relational, but relationship driven. This person realizes that everything in life, including business, is driven by relationships and he or she is therefore driven to build and maintain relationships. These people don’t just “get along” with people, they must connect with them to thrive.
- Impact-Aware
This person has developed a discernment that allows them to be consciously aware of surroundings, including his or her own impact on situations and other people. These people understand the value and the responsibility of their impact on other people, and as such are intentional about their influence. They know well the concepts of cause and effect, actions and reactions, and behavior and consequences.
