Pourquoi pratiquer le leadership sans cesse ? Le cours de Brian Tracy. Partie 3

Hello and welcome to this section on integrity. In this section, you will learn how to develop the quality of leadership that is by far the most respected. Integrity. Almost all fields agree that integrity is one of the most fundamental and important values in their society, if not the most important of all. In the previous section, you identified your vision. Integrity serves as a compass to guide you and keep track of your vision. One of my favorite definitions of integrity is pure, unified, irreproachable, and harmonious in all respects. Becoming integral means becoming a person of noble and honorable character in all matters and in all situations. Zig Ziglar once said, Being integral, you have nothing to fear, because you have nothing to hide. Being integral, you will do what is right, so you will not feel guilty. We will start this section by developing character, so that you can live the truth and your truth every day. We will discuss the best ways to practice leadership on a daily basis. Integrity is the essential quality of an excellent leader. And you will learn how to commit to becoming a totally honest person by practicing leadership in other areas of your life. At the end of this section, you will have a clear view of your personal truth through two introspective exercises. You will identify which values you admire in your models and how they can appear in your mission and your organization. Then, we will deepen your personal values to determine what kind of person you really are and how to fill the gap between this person and the one you want to become. By the end of this section, you will be able to determine your most noble values and live your life by systematically respecting these values thanks to integrity. Let's begin. In this lesson, we will talk about how to make sure you do your best at all times and maintain a high level of integrity. Integrity means this. When someone asks you at the end of the day, Have you done your best? You can look him in the eye and say, yes. And if someone asks you if you could have done better, you can answer honestly, no, I did everything I could. Integrity means that you recognize, sometimes unconsciously, that everything you do is an affirmation of who you really are. Not just as a leader, but as an individual. Here is a formula to get used to doing your best every day. Simply start by looking at what you do in your daily life to see what your level of integrity is. Analyze your reactions and answers to the ups and downs of life when you come across unexpected money or when you work overtime. Are you placid and optimistic most of the time? Or do you easily get discouraged and feel the need to complain? Write down your observations and determine what kind of person you really are. Then commit to making an effort to maintain your best values and change the rest to increase your integrity. For example, the external manifestation of a high level of integrity is an excellent quality of work. An honest leader to himself will strive to do impeccable work in meetings and interactions with his employees and problem-solving. He knows what his priorities are and what he can manage and challenge himself to do. A good way to make sure you do your best every day is to determine your three priorities at the beginning of the day and to focus on these priorities throughout the day. Now let's put this into practice. Take a pen and paper or use your computer. Think about your next day at work. Take one or two minutes to write down your three priorities. The next time you go to work, I'd like you to write down your priorities on a post-it and stick it somewhere where you can see it throughout the day. See how this action affects your priorities at work, your reactions to the challenges you face that day and your interactions with your colleagues. Then, recognize the importance of honesty in personal development. Honesty is the key element that distinguishes a good job from doing your best. As a leader, being honest means that you admit your flaws, communicate frankly with others, and don't compromise on what you think is right. Don't let your ego hold you back from trying to get approval from your team. Admitting your flaws makes you a much stronger leader. If you make a mistake in a project or make a bad decision for society, be honest with yourself and others and recognize your mistakes so that those who follow you can also learn from it. There is a difference between being assured and being blind. Let's look at the opposite. In today's changing world, there is always a possibility that you are partially or completely wrong. Maybe you are not wrong, but offering yourself to this possibility will make you a more effective leader because it will open your mind to new ideas or ways of thinking. Being honest means telling the truth, even when the truth is not beautiful to see. Have you missed a deadline or an income goal or made exaggerated promises to a client or colleague? Being honest about your decisions will greatly help you as a leader. Chuck Wells, legendary president and CEO of General Electric, calls this being frank. He believes that if you fear the franchise, transparency, you don't have to be an effective leader. You will surround yourself with people who will say yes and what you want to hear instead of telling the truth. Leaders must be brave, but also open to ideas, to the possibility that they could be wrong. Many leaders end up failing because they refuse to question their own hypotheses or conclusions. Finally, keep your promises. Leaders give their word prudently, even with reluctance, but when they make a promise, they keep it without failing. Your commitment to others says a lot about you. Always keep your word. Be an honorable person. If you say that you will do something, that you will attend an event, give your feedback or respect deadlines, do it. Make yourself known as an absolutely reliable person, whatever the circumstances. And if you can't keep your word, once again, tell the truth. Remember, your best personal asset is your reputation. So make yourself known by your employees, colleagues and clients as someone who keeps his word, his promises, his commitments. Your integrity and your respect for your values come first and affect all your interactions with others. In this lesson, we will talk about how to systematically practice leadership to strengthen your integrity. In the previous lesson, you learned to aim for the best of yourself by being frank and honest. Now we will dig deeper into integrity and leadership by practicing them constantly in all areas of your life. Because who you are at work and who you are outside of work should ultimately be very similar. Your values are always expressed in your behavior, in everything you do. It is not your words, your wishes, your hopes or your intentions that count. Only your actions. If you practice what you preach in a field, it will naturally appear in all your other actions. Imagine coming home after a great day at work. You are undoubtedly productive and in a good mood for the rest of the day. You can practice leadership and demonstrate integrity in your daily actions in three major areas of your life. These are the three areas that offer the greatest temptations but also the best opportunities. The first area includes your relationships with your family and friends. Being true to yourself and your principles means living honestly with everyone in your life. This means refusing to say something that you do not feel honestly or to do something that you do not think is right. In your professional life, you should be honest if something does not fit with your team. Living honestly with others means that you refuse to stay in a situation in which you feel unhappy because of the personality or behavior of another. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise your ethics for anything. Psychologists have determined that stress and negativity mainly come from attempts to live in a way that does not coincide with our noblest values. Don't you feel the most unhappy when your life is out of reach? When you do and say something outside but you feel and believe something else inside. When you decide to become a person of character and integrity, your first action will be to neutralize or eliminate any difficult human relationship in your life. Let's try this. Take a minute to make a list of your intimate circle. Let's say 5 or 10 members of your family or friends with whom you interact every day or every week. Then, next to each person, write simply and honestly what they make you feel. Inspiration, stress, optimism, anxiety, depression. The next step is delicate. Keep positive relationships in your corner and reduce or eliminate the rest. Get rid of it. I'm not talking about taking a stick and hitting someone on the head, but rather to face the other person honestly and tell them that you are not happy. Tell them that you want to reorganize your relationships to make you feel happier and more satisfied in life. If the other person is not ready to adapt for you, to make you happy, it should be clear to your eyes that you no longer want this relationship anyway. The second area in which you can practice leadership is your attitude and your behavior towards money. Money is obviously an important center of attention as a leader in an organization. Professionally, you should strive to be fair to what your team and you spend and earn and not compromise on your value. If you are disinvolved with your money, you will have financial difficulties. Treat money meticulously, especially that of others. Defend your solvency as you would defend your honor. Pay your bills on time, even in advance. Keep your promises to your financial commitments. The third area in which you can practice leadership is your promises and commitments to others. Always keep your word. Be a man or a woman of honor. Just like when you promise to be present at a meeting or send numbers to someone. If you promise to do something for a friend, make sure you do it. Integrity is the key ingredient of character, and your character is the foundation of your life. Practice integrity as you breathe. My friend Kaveth Robert has said many times that character is the ability to lead to a resolution long after the emotions that led to that resolution have passed. Your character, your integrity, is manifested in your willingness to respect the values that are dearest to you. It is easy to make promises and difficult to keep them. But if you manage to do so, every act of integrity at the office and outside will strengthen your character a little. While you improve the quality and strength of your character, all other areas of your life will also improve. This way, you will be well on your way to becoming not only an excellent leader, but also an exceptional human being with strong values that we will explore in the next lesson. Congratulations, you have completed this section on integrity. You have learned to do your best every day as a leader thanks to honesty and sincerity. The personal values that make you who you are and how to aspire to the noblest values. Practice leadership in your daily life. Integrity is absolutely essential if you want to exploit your strengths as a leader. It means, above all, looking at yourself honestly and making your decisions based on the fact that you are an extraordinary human being. The Law of Attraction states that you inevitably attract people and circumstances in your life that are in harmony with your thoughts and dominant values. This means that everything you have attracted to yourself in your life is linked to the person you are. If something, whether your work or your relationships, makes you unhappy in life, you must work on yourself and change the person you are to stop attracting these things into your life. You are the reason, and the cause, of the smallest aspect of your existence. You are responsible. The most important rule that you will probably learn is that your life only becomes better when you become better. All life is lived from the inside out, as we have said. At the heart of your personality are your personal and life values. Your values determine the kind of person you really are. It is what you believe defines your character, your personality, and your leadership. In this section and this course, you will learn exactly what you defend and do not defend, which will ultimately show your team and the world the kind of person you have become and will become in the future. Now, let's move on to the next section on strategic planning. Here is a question that I am often asked about leadership. To work effectively, does a team need to appreciate its leader? If you consider yourself a leader, and there are individuals you do not appreciate and do not appreciate in your team, this will always be a problem, because those who do not appreciate you will always do the minimum, and you will always suspect those you do not appreciate of not doing their job well, which will push you to check it again, and so on. In other words, popularity or sympathy is a real key to professional success. So you should never hire individuals you do not appreciate in your team. If you inherited from a team, which happened to me several times in my career, and there are individuals you do not appreciate or do not respect, you should encourage them to work elsewhere. No need to get angry or fire them. Tell them earlier that they will probably do better by working for someone they are more comfortable with. The point is that if you do not appreciate your employees, and your employees do not appreciate you, you will always have a much harder time achieving success.