If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere. – Roy T Bennett 

I first explored values-based leadership several years ago as a participant in a national leadership conference and since then, I have put my core values at the center of all aspects of my life.

Now, I work with groups and individuals to define and examine their core values and how they show up at work, home, and in the community. In this month’s newsletter, I am giving you the framework I use to help guide that exploration.

Integral to great leadership is very clearly understanding, appreciating, and living out our core values as individuals – but also as organizations. I believe a strong sense of values is essential to collaborative success and elevated team cohesion.

Core values are those commonly-held beliefs that provide a framework for our collaborative efforts and make our work worth doing. Our core values take us from an “I” to a “we”.

At True North Leadership, we value:

COURAGE.

It is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it. We can do hard things. We do every day.

ACTION.

Let’s go. Let’s get after it. Waiting for change does not work, we must inspire it.

COMMUNITY. 

A strong sense of belonging fosters our best work together whether it’s a family, professional team, town, state, or nation.

JOY. 

Gratitude, humor, and a meaningful sense of purpose fill our days and our workspaces. We believe in spreading hope and kindness everywhere.

SERVICE. 

We are here to help each other. Not just in this work, in this life.

What core values do you hold on to? How do they shape your decisions and actions? Let’s start a conversation!

Be well + lead well,

CHANTEL