Being a leader is about being personable in many ways with your peers, your colleagues, strangers, and those around you. My husband is currently a Lance Corporal …show more content…
His authentic leadership utilizes his self-awareness and his behavior is consistent with those that are align with his morals, values and character. He is constantly practicing what he preaches and believes that you cannot make someone do something that you are not willing to do yourself. Authentic leadership operates on many multitudes of levels and has to be adaptable. The key approach to this leadership is to be yourself and to know what your background is in order to use your life experiences and events to help shape yourself as an individual and the people around you. Authentic leaders derive their strength from within and behave in ways that are consistent and aligned with their values. This type of leadership is very influential and leads to overall performance and development (Goertzen, …show more content…
Some of the characteristics that I have are ambassador, advocate, people mover, truth-seeker, creative builder, and experienced guide. This assessment indicates that I have a broad indication for a natural default role in leadership. It also indicated that I should understand more of my natural orientation in a work environment to inspire growth in that area and to help calibrate leadership. In a lot of ways, like my husband we both utilize authentic and transformational leadership to use our experiences, situations and self-awareness to inspire, motivate and to uplift others to be better for a collective goal or