Personal Core Values and Empathetic Leadership
Personal core values are essential in empathetic management when balanced with other traditional leadership methods. Personal core values are those things that guide your life, things you feel strongly about, and are always with you at home or work. Some people call it their inner voice or consciousness (Stosny, 2010). When your core values are align, you feel great about the decision you have made and when these values do not align, you feel the exact opposite. It is what helps us judge our moral character, keep our morality in check, and stay within the ethical boundaries of decision-making. These values, developed through our family culture and every life lesson guides us every day (MindTools, …show more content…
At home, my priorities are seeing to the well-being of all my family members, from my grandchildren to my children, and my dogs. It is something ingrained in who I am, I have always been the person to put their family first, and then myself last. This also transfers into my work life of putting others before myself. Which at times can be my undoing, because in the process of helping everyone else I end up staying after work to complete things that needs to get finished. My second core value honesty is something I need to monitor because too much is not always a good thing. I need to remember that not everyone likes a straightforward answer. Honesty is a core value that I used diplomatically, and at the same time stay true to myself. My third core value self-reliance is my ability not to depend on others to get things accomplished. This can be hard on a team project and delegating work. I have to remember that I cannot do everything and there are other people, who are just as qualified to do the task (Waytz, 2016). As a leader, it is important to stay true to your core values and incorporate empathetic leadership into the mix, which is ideal for a well-rounded …show more content…
I need to guard myself against becoming too empathetic to the person I am talking with and letting my core values take over the situation. For instance the two core values of family and self-reliance I can delegated work equally to other staff members, this will prevent myself from do more than I can handle. Secondly, when talking with people judge how much honesty is appropriate in each situation; some people do not respond to direct honesty and the use of diplomacy may be the best way to handle most situation. Lastly, incorporate empathy and understand what others are going through without forgetting about the task that needs to be completed. It is okay to help co-workers and be understanding, but not at the expense of add more work on top of the things I am already doing and becoming too emotionally drain to deal with non-work situations in my life.
Empathetic leadership and core values go hand in hand, as long as there is a balance at home and work. Too much empathy can be emotionally draining, unproductive, and cause work task to go unfinished. It can also create a situation of being overly emotional in certain situation. The key is finding the right balance between core values and leading as an empathetic manager, while at the same time maintaining organizational
Personal core values are essential in empathetic management when balanced with other traditional leadership methods. Personal core values are those things that guide your life, things you feel strongly about, and are always with you at home or work. Some people call it their inner voice or consciousness (Stosny, 2010). When your core values are align, you feel great about the decision you have made and when these values do not align, you feel the exact opposite. It is what helps us judge our moral character, keep our morality in check, and stay within the ethical boundaries of decision-making. These values, developed through our family culture and every life lesson guides us every day (MindTools, …show more content…
At home, my priorities are seeing to the well-being of all my family members, from my grandchildren to my children, and my dogs. It is something ingrained in who I am, I have always been the person to put their family first, and then myself last. This also transfers into my work life of putting others before myself. Which at times can be my undoing, because in the process of helping everyone else I end up staying after work to complete things that needs to get finished. My second core value honesty is something I need to monitor because too much is not always a good thing. I need to remember that not everyone likes a straightforward answer. Honesty is a core value that I used diplomatically, and at the same time stay true to myself. My third core value self-reliance is my ability not to depend on others to get things accomplished. This can be hard on a team project and delegating work. I have to remember that I cannot do everything and there are other people, who are just as qualified to do the task (Waytz, 2016). As a leader, it is important to stay true to your core values and incorporate empathetic leadership into the mix, which is ideal for a well-rounded …show more content…
I need to guard myself against becoming too empathetic to the person I am talking with and letting my core values take over the situation. For instance the two core values of family and self-reliance I can delegated work equally to other staff members, this will prevent myself from do more than I can handle. Secondly, when talking with people judge how much honesty is appropriate in each situation; some people do not respond to direct honesty and the use of diplomacy may be the best way to handle most situation. Lastly, incorporate empathy and understand what others are going through without forgetting about the task that needs to be completed. It is okay to help co-workers and be understanding, but not at the expense of add more work on top of the things I am already doing and becoming too emotionally drain to deal with non-work situations in my life.
Empathetic leadership and core values go hand in hand, as long as there is a balance at home and work. Too much empathy can be emotionally draining, unproductive, and cause work task to go unfinished. It can also create a situation of being overly emotional in certain situation. The key is finding the right balance between core values and leading as an empathetic manager, while at the same time maintaining organizational