Such a joy to join the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA Women's Leadership Resource Network to discuss one of my favorite things: values!
My personal values are: Accountability, Courage, Ease, and Kindness, and my annual mission statement includes a statement or two about my values. It's really powerful to see how this mission statement changes each year. For 2024, it reads:
🔸 My purpose is to normalize the reality of workplace transitions, and support those who seek leaving well with intention and joy.
🔸 I lead with kindness, and believe in courage and accountability as needed steps in the staircase of change.
🔸 I enter spaces authentically, with welcoming, and possess fierce quiet power.
🔸 I will be known as someone who pushed the envelope, insisted on integrity, and showed up for impact.
Each of us has the opportunity to 'operationalize' our values by choosing 1-2 small ways those values can live out in the open. If you think about the folks you most respect, it's very likely that the things you admire about them have a lot to do with their personal values.
To learn more about values and to walk through an exercise to discover / implement yours:
https://lnkd.in/e7SgCQdF
Yesterday, our Women’s Leadership Resource Network welcomed guest speaker Naomi Hattaway to our Coffee Break and Learn. Naomi is the Interim Executive Director at Dress for Success Tampa Bay. She shared with the group her unique journey through childhood to adulthood and how that shaped who she is as a leader today. She offered tools for leadership development and led the group through an exercise to discover our personal values and how to put them into a personal mission statement. Naomi, we are grateful for your time and sharing your story!
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2wSo great to see you all together!