I believe great leadership is contagious. I love to lead professional IT teams towards better ways to work together. I build team and individual confidence through increasing communication skills, defining pragmatic team process frameworks and coaching problem solving approaches.
Personal Values
Honesty - Tell the truth, within limits of confidence, respect and responsibility.
Trustworthiness - Do what you say you will, when you say you'll do it.
Responsibility - Take ownership of what needs to be done, and do it.
Confidentiality - Keep sensitive information confidential to the owner. When in doubt, ask.
Equality - Treat people equally.
Respect - Listen, think, judge actions and behaviour not people, provide reasons and impacts. Don't take advantage of others.
Open mindedness - consider influences and experiences, look for common values, enquire about positions, discuss differences respectfully.
Family - Protect, encourage and nurture all your family members. Seek help from family always.
Equality - Act to reject prejudice, harassment and bullying.
Service - Find ways to help family, friends, the local community and global communities.
Charity - Share what you have so others less fortunate can benefit.
Consultation - Ensure any efforts you do are wanted by the recipient.
Legacy - Leave the world better than you found it
Efficiency - Use resources efficiently, renewable energy, recycling
Change - Make environmentally responsible choices, public transport, walking
Reduce - Limit wasted energy resources and materials, short showers, less heating and cooling, offset grid.
Listing values is useful, however in order to communicate how values are achieved and lived, values need to be backed up by behaviours.
Be Healthy, Safe and Well
Health - Exercise, stay trim, strong and fit, eat healthy food, avoid unhealthy food and activities.
Measure Risk - look for hazards and think about likelihood and potential impact
Evaluate Options - if there is a safer way to do something that is nearly the same effort, take the safe way.
Socialise - Join groups, talk to others, play games, have fun.
Awareness - Listen to your thoughts, reach out to trusted friends and family if you feel bad. Ask others how they feel.
Protection - Practice health and safety techniques to maintain mental health.
Humour - Joke often particularly in failure, but always with integrity.
Find Purpose
Inquisitive - Investigate and verify facts and views from a variety of reliable sources.
Engaged - Give your full attention to the task while you are doing it.
Considerate - Take time to think through the effects and implications, including any unintended consequences.
Balanced - Actions should be proportional to the size of the issue or problem.
Decisive - Once you are confident of your purpose, plan and risks, take bold actions to devise and achieve goals.
Be Effective
Persistent Efforts - most actions are learning experiences, if you don't succeed try again.
Confident - Take confidence from your purpose and allow yourself to act confidently.
Efficient - Prioritise actions and plan the use of time and resources. Don't use more than you need to achieve your goals.
Motivated - Review your purpose to renew motivation.
Discipline - Follow through with the plan if it's working, re-view the plan if it's not.
Resourceful - Seek out expertise and resources where needed.
Consistency - Ensure actions align to values and purpose, and don't counteract each other.
Continuous Improvement - Regularly review values, purpose, goals and skills to adjust direction where appropriate.
Focus - Keep to the plan, or review and correct the plan and vision.
Humility - Take responsibility for failure and recognise team members with successes.
Get Organised
Teamwork - Contributing, forming, motivating teams because worthwhile jobs are often too big for 1 person.
Vision - Clearly articulate purpose, objectives, method of operation, risks and contingencies and rules of engagement.
Plan - Form a plan including how to modify if it's not working and when and how to stop.
Helpfulness - Helping others feels great.
Communication - Clear and concise, listening, speaking, reading and writing. The right medium for each subject and audience.
Persuasiveness - Look for common values and positions to frame what you want people to do.
Measured Risk Taking - Regularly identify, measure and review risks of both action and inaction.