Leadership is such a simple yet powerful word. It implies personal leadership, strategic leadership, motivational leadership to achieve collective performance. 

Daniel Goleman, in his book « Primal Leadership », refers to the emotional dimension of leadership. One of the leader primal task is to articulate a message that resonates with their followers’ emotional reality, with their sense of purpose. “Leadership is the art of getting work done through other people”. 

It’s also “The practice of intentionally influencing your thinking, feeling and actions towards your objective/s ».(Bryant and Kazan 2012).

To me, The pre-requisite to any type of leadership is Self-leadership : a true leader knows himself, care for himself, and believes in his potential. 

“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” Thomas Carlyle | 19th century Scottish philosopher

Organisations must truly consider their people and culture as the most important asset and competitive advantage they possess.

Effectives leaders must develop their self-awareness, their assertiveness, their emotional intelligence to create a safe space where their teams feel trustworthy, cared for, and empowered. Only then they will create a climate of innovation, success, and results.  

Through personal leadership, leaders learn to maintain a positive mindset and high self-respect, nourish their growth mindset with courage, their decisiveness, and resilience, develop their genuine care for others through empathy and authenticity, and encourage performance through purpose led and motivational leadership. 

Because I’m deeply convinced that personal leadership is THE key to our Success, InValues has agreed a partnership with LMI Swiss (https://lmi-swiss.com). Leadership Management International (LMI) is a performance improvement company specialized in assessments, leadership, and organization development. Thanks to a unique structured process, allying workshops, coaching, spaced-repetition and on-the job application, I guarantee long-lasting, measurable results in positive behavior & attitudes change, character development, performance improvement, improved productivity, focus on what what matters, higher team engagement, goals achievement, and a high-performance culture. In addition, individual & team well-being skyrocket, and turnover & burnout remarkably go down. 

Organisations must truly consider their people and culture as the most important asset and competitive advantage they possess. They must develop leadership through their entire organisation. Leadership development is not an event or a project. Truly effective leadership development is a continuous, ongoing, lifelong process. 

Extensive research has shown that the best leaders have mastered four key stages of leadership development. The Total Leader® concept identifies these four broad areas or levels that a person must master to become a Total Leader®: Personal productivity, Personal Leadership, Motivational leadership, Strategic leadership. 

Those same leaders have gradually developed their emotional intelligence, helping them to navigate in the BANI or VUCA environment, to regulate their level of stress (and that of their teams) to create and promote a trusting empowering culture, despite pressure on performance.