Leadership-It’s all about an affair of the Heart!

We commonly say that the management is an affair of the brain but leadership is an affair of the heart. How do the leaders digest this?

• Whenever you confront important issues, ask yourself what your gut and heart are telling you, in addition to what your head might think, before deciding on a course of action.
• Your constituents deem your leadership to be authentic when your true feelings and beliefs, spoken and written communications, and actions are in sync.
• Our important messages to our constituents about vision, strategy, or change must first invoke a positive feeling in our constituents’ guts and hearts.

Finding your unique leadership voice that consistently inspires high levels of performance by your constituents is a significant “leadership challenge. Get started by reflecting on the following thought questions.

• Do you characterize yourself as a rationale decision maker or someone who tends to go with your gut feeling?
• Am I an authentic leader? Do my constituents really know what I feel and believe from what they hear and see?
• Recall the last important message you received from your leader(s). Did you understand, agree, or even care? Did you enthusiastically take the appropriate action called for by your leader?

Successful leaders have discovered that they must first listen to their own hearts and be comfortable with who they are.