Authenticity is a self-directed process of continuous analysis, validation, and verification of personal beliefs, practices, guiding principles, aspirations, and operational purposes that drive, direct, focus, and fulfill your life.
The higher you go in operations, and as a trusted strategic advisor, the more your authenticity and that of other senior decision-makers comes into play. The concepts come to the fore when:
- The truth matters.
- Tough questions need to be answered.
- Ideas from beyond the pale need suggesting or defeating.
- Corrective action and behavior change, especially among leaders, needs to be surfaced.
- Meaningful discussion of personal beliefs and reasoning are on the table.
- Serious decisions or important input is required.
- Trust is at risk.
- A reservoir of sensible, simple, positive, constructive, and useful options is needed to move forward or begin resolution of serious issues.
- When you need the boss to really listen.
- When you are a boss who needs others to really listen.
- When you are the boss and really need to listen and pay attention to others.
Here is my current authenticity analysis template. Perhaps you might find it useful for yourself.
- Please let me know what you think.
- Please send this to anyone you might think it could help.
- Questions to jel@e911.com, subject: Authenticity Template
This is Jim Lukaszewski:
A Personal Profile
Powerful Speaker, Important Author, Inspiring Teacher, Trusted Advisor
Purpose: Through helping resolve the significant troubles of others, find and do what will be the most important things I will ever do in my career and life. Vision/Aspiration: To be an authentic trusted Communicator, Coach, Counselor and Strategic Thinker; to be the first call when leaders and managers face their toughest, touchiest, most sensitive and devastating situations and questions. Mission: To be the table, truly strategic; promptly finding those exceptionally achievable, ethical, honorable, powerful, and sensible ingredients for solutions to the most challenging leadership, management and organizational problems. Disciplines: Gettable, doable approaches; Intuition-Pattern Sensitivity; lifelong learning; Management Perspective/sensitivity; Teach, Coach, Counsel to educate, motivate, and expand Management and leadership influence and success; Thoughtful, Incremental Achievable Advice; Tomorrow Focused; Trustability; Verbal Clarity. Values: Compassion; Constructive approaches; Curiosity; Honesty; Inconsistency (strategy); Positivity; Pragmatism; Promptness; Truthfulness, Intentional Inconsistency (the key to novel ideas) Principles: Candor; Prompt Intentional Communication; Destiny Management; Empathy/Compassion/Apology; Engagement; Openness; Responsiveness; Transparency; Truthfulness. Acknowledgements: Bill George, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic- Author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership with Peter Simms, Jossey-Bass, 2007.
- He created the Authenticity industry
- For carrying the flag of authenticity in the public relations profession
- http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/83405/IABC_CW_Lead_Authentically_David_Grossman.pdf
