Listen to Fiona MacNeill speaking about the concept of Personal Leadership.
The personal leadership work that you are undertaking on this programme begins with you as an individual. We are all unique and the desire of this development is to maximise your unique values and qualities. It begins with you. As a student at the North Ayrshire Wellbeing and Recovery College said to me once, ‘This programme has made me understand and appreciate that I am the leader of my own life first, before I lead my family or my external influence’.
Your roles are unique in the organisations where you work. This programme supports you in creating the conditions for yourself to have the most positive impact that you can have as a peer leader and changemaker.
What typifies a focus on Personal Leadership?
- Putting people before process; no point in sacrificing results for efficiency.
- Ensuring that your behaviour is aligned to your values, your body shows when it’s not, and peer leaders need to be authentic.
- Recognising that the work of leadership is an extended conversation with colleagues, service users/customers, partners, and the unknown future.
- Creating the conditions for ourselves and others to have meaningful conversations.
- Saying the things that can’t be said for the sake of the future, not our ego.
- Understanding what your role is in creating the current culture, peer leaders get what they tolerate and that there is so much more available.
- Extending to others what we want them to model: it begins with us.
- Providing unfiltered appreciation and praise: creating belonging.
Listen to Brene Brown talking about Daring to Lead.
Taking the time to really focus on the components of your Personal Leadership will help you to align and hold yourself differently as you navigate the complexities and joys of your peer leadership journey.