Sticking to Core Values
Commitment, Character, and Accountability are qualities that managers need to consistently model if they don’t want to risk losing the respect of their direct reports and dumb down the performance of the 21st century worker.This age of workers is not tolerating inconsistent actions that don’t line up with spoken or written words—they will take their skills somewhere else and work for leaders they can trust, who practice the principles they preach, and who stick to the core values they expect.

Without realizing it, leaders may do things that make it harder for individual contributors in their organizations to believe they are not being taken for granted. When nothing is done about poor behavior, generations are disrespected without being checked, or expectations are not clear by senior executives or front line managers, everyone loses. Commitment, character, and accountability can be the most useful learning tools there are in restoring lost trust in leadership and rebuilding confidence with those who really matter the most—The Individual Contributors who help organizations reach the bottom line.

For some leaders, sticking to core values has never been a ‘skill’ that needed to be taught. The idea that commitment, character, and accountability are defined as qualities that need to be developed and maintained in order to get the best performance from people and avoid the risk of losing staff is outrageous. As a result, some leaders find it can be challenging to accept.

Specifically, you may find it hard to:

See how core value leadership affects the bottom line
Identify signs that character, commitment, & accountability are overlooked
Feel confident enough to hold peers and colleagues responsible for their behavior

We will take a fresh look at core value leadership and see how it can help you restore confidence in those who report to you.

We will make a conscious decision to focus on developing character, commitment, and accountability in order to maintain consistency in core value leadership. Core value leadership is extremely important to the bottom line. We will look at what core value leadership is and isn’t, explore what it means to be a model leader and why its important, and learn a tool you can use to be a consistent model leader called C.A.R.E