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In an earlier post I talk about Chaos and what creates Dissonance in your life.  I will let that post stand on its own.  For this discussion I need your full attention as we are going to approach congruence from a positive standpoint.  The human brain likes the negative tilt.  But, today we are talking about leadership and leadership must be approached from a positive aspect.

Congruence is the making sure that what you say matches what you do and what your goals and values are.

Therefore, it is harder to achieve.  Many people are incongruent at a single time or with a single issue, but they are congruent overall.

A leader should be able to maintain congruence no matter the battle and he or she should be able to transfer that congruence throughout the organization.  Now, we all know that not EVERYONE will get on board, but the majority will if the cause is just and the leader is congruent.

So, we must talk about just how to get to congruence.

First, the leader must be congruent with their personal self, values and goals. There are three aids that I think will help tremendously; Value Sheet, Personal Affirmation and List of Values. With these three and the explanation below, you should be able to define your core value set and align it to a personal affirmation.

With these tools you can begin to truly align your value sets with your goals and remove the chaos that this misalignment may have caused in your life.

WARNING: This drill may produce significantly different results than you were expecting. It did for me.

So, here’s how we do it!

Take the master list of values and circle every value that you really think aligns to you. Be generous and circle who you really are.
Go back and place a rectangle around the twenty or less that describe who you most want to be.
From that twenty, take a highlighter and highlight the 12 that are critical to you.
Number them from one to twelve.
Write the top ten on your Value Sheet.

Second, the leader must develop a core group of similarly congruent leaders.  These leaders must be on board with the leader’s direction and be willing to infuse them selves into the business with the same commitment (or more) to the process that the leader has.  This creates a culture of success and the necessary emotion necessary to surmount the challenges that will inhibit success.

Third, there must be a clear plan of action and measurable results.  Those results will be the only way of defining success within a congruent company and the buy-in mentioned in the second point is the key to gaining momentum.

As a final thought, congruence as a leader is created through self discipline, team discipline and a maniacal focus on the goals that you set as a team.  However, the key is self commitment to your own congruence and teaching congruence throughout your organization.  There MUST be consequences for those individuals that feign congruence but don’t live it and there MUST be a commitment to follow-through.

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