Authentic Leadership

Presentation by : Amethyst June A. Gallofin

Authentic - Defined
From the Greek meaning one who
accomplishes
To act, to embody, to engage, and to
participate in life
Fidelity, actuality and fact,
compatibility with a certain source or
usage, a complete sincerity without
feigning hypocrisy. (Websters New
International Unabridged Dictionary)

Authentic - Defined
Guided and judged by genuineness and
trustworthiness; sincerity by purity of intent

Authentic Leadership
Upholds formal decision making versus secret
pacts
Upholds ethical foundations
Open agendas versus hidden agendas
Resists oppression vs terrorizing the innocent
Do not intentionally mislead followers
Maintains common purpose

Authentic Leadership
Show up
Engage

Leadership Skills
Leadership School
(Feature of Action)
Personal (Existence)
Team (Resources)
Positional/Functional (Structure)

Political (Power)
Visionary (Mission)
Ethical (Meaning)

Essential Skills
Understanding and using the MyersBriggs type indicator and other tools
For knowing oneself and others
Diagnosing team needs with situational
Model, understanding small-group
Management techniques
Strategic planning, leading from the
middle, promoting growth, managing
Retrenchment during organizational
change, possessing system savvy
Managing and utilizing conflict,
Community organizing and encouraging
collective leadership
Using intuition, storytelling, understanding
and using myths, symbols and metaphors
Identifying and defining critical ethical
categories, performing ethical analysis,
practicing clarity

Five Touchstones of Authentic

Leadership
Touchstone One: Know Yourself
Authentically
Touchstone Two: Listen Authentically.
Touchstone Three: Express
Authentically.
Touchstone Four: Appreciate
Authentically.
Touchstone Five: Serve Authentically.

Touchstone One: Know Yourself

Authentically
Know thyself, appears in the writings
of Ovid, Cicero, and Socrates, in the
sayings of the Seven Sages of Greece,
on the entrance to the temple of Apollo,
in Christian writings and in Eastern texts.
If we want to be more effective with
others, we first need to become more
effective with ourselves.
Practice being what you wish others to
become.

Touchstone Two: Listen Authentically.

Listening authentically is centered in the
principle of psychological reciprocity:
to influence others, we must first be open to
their influence.
Authentic listening is about being generous
listening with a giving attitude that seeks to
bring forth the contribution in someone,
versus listening with our limiting
assessments, opinions and judgments.
Authentic listening is about being open to
the purpose and learning coming to us
through the other person.

Touchstone Three: Express

Authentically
Authentic expression is a delicate
subject for many leaders. Integrity
goes far beyond telling the truth.
Integrity means total congruence
between who we are and what we do.
Authentic expression is the true voice
of the leader. We speak from our
character and it creates trust, synergy
and connection with everyone around
us.

Touchstone Four: Appreciate

Authentically.
As leaders we tend to do too much and
appreciate too little. Love is an extreme
case of appreciation.
Appreciation is one type of selfexpression that creates value.
It energizes people and makes people
want to exceed their goals and
perceived limits.
Criticism may get short-term results but
usually doesnt add long-term value.
What it does add is fear and insecurity.

Touchstone Five: Serve

Authentically
Ultimately, a leader is not judged by how well
he or she leads, but by how well he or she
serves.
We serve our organization. We serve our
people. We serve our customers. We serve our
marketplace. We serve our community. We
serve our family. We serve our relationships.
The real job is to serve all the constituencies and
to appreciate genuinely the fact the only
through our interdependence with others do we
create value.