Table 1 - Indicators of authentic leadership
• Explore the future jointly with stakeholders/ followers. Help each other to bring that shared future into their present world in order to make it happen
• Build ownership of the mission – the things to be accomplished - that the leadership is pursuing. Ownership is not something that is directed or mandated – it is something that becomes part of the stakeholders’/followers’ way of life
• Ensure that every stakeholder/follower fully understands the main message that guides the future direction the leadership has chosen to pursue. They need to be able to articulate that message in their words, not the leadership’s words, and to make it relevant to their situation
• Leadership reminding people constantly what is important, and what is not
• Act consistently with the leadership’s principles, beliefs and values. Otherwise trust will not be established
• Build confidence, hope, optimism and resilience in oneself as the leadership and others by setting up for and reinforcing success rather than problems and failure
• Focus on what you as leader do well, and find others to complement areas that are not your areas of strength as a leader
• Indicate how you as leadership want to engage stakeholders/followers. Then publicly reinforce the way you as leadership want stakeholders to engage you and others
• Every stakeholder/follower wants to believe that you as leadership know who they are, what they desire, and what they want to accomplish. Stakeholders/followers identify with leadership to the degree that you as leadership can build identification with them
• Share with stakeholders/ followers the things you as leadership know and do not know
• Each stakeholder/follower needs to believe and feel that his/her contribution is greater because they working together toward a common cause/goal
• Provide appropriate reinforcing recognition for the contribution that each stakeholder/ follower make. It must be something of value to them, not to the leadership
Celebrating 30 years of inspiring Africa’s managers
March 2012 | Management Today 89
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