School Improvement: Articulating Your Personal Vision of Leadership

Articulating Your Personal Vision of Leadership

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Anthony Robbins

Robbins suggests that there are three decisions that control our destiny:

Your decisions about what to focus on.
Your decisions about what things mean to you.
Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

If you know anyone who is enjoying greater success than you, they're making these decisions differently from you in some context.

Questions for Vision

Use these questions to help generate thoughts for your personal vision of leadership.

		Vision of Leadership

		Vision of Leadership

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List names of people you would identify as a good leader. What are qualities of leadership these people exhibit?
What words do you want people to use when they describe you as a leader?
What do you want to achieve as a leader within the first year? Within in the next 5 years?
What kind of person will you have to become in order to achieve what you want?
What character traits, skills, abilities, attitudes, and beliefs do you need to achieve what you want?
What are you willing to start doing to make things the way you want them?
What are you willing to stop doing to make things they way you want them?
How can you enjoy the process of being the leader you desire to become?

"We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it."

Donald Curtis

Moving from Head to Foot

Things that you want to have happen don't happen by default, by hope, by mandate, or by chance—they happen by design.

Once you have clarity about the future you want to create, it's a matter of acting congruently on a daily basis to influence the creation of your desired future. Make sense? Absolutely. Is it easy? Absolutely not.

Setting goals: the first step in turning thoughts into results

Creating a plan of action: all goal setting must be followed by both the development of a plan and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

Keeping your Vision Visible

One strategy for keeping your vision visible is to create a set of questions that you ask yourself daily.

Example questions for your morning drive:

What will I do today to become the kind of leader I want to become?
What am I enjoying most in my life now?
What am I proud of in my life now?
What did I learn yesterday that will give me wisdom today?

"We are not human beings...we are human becomings."

Wayne Dyer

Creating a Personal Vision

Living in a clock-driven world, you may be used to prioritizing your schedule. Should you decide you will be guided more by the compass than the clock in the future, schedule your priorities.

Every week schedule time doing the things that are important to becoming your vision of leadership.

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