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"10 Questions to Help You Find Your Leadership Voice"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "...Whether you realize it or not you are a leader. You do not have to lead a firm or department or office to be a leader. You may even be a first year lawyer, or a law student. You are still a leader, even if it doesn't feel that way.

...Many leadership experts express that the starting point for you as a leader is "finding your voice." You have to know yourself before you can lead others.

In their book The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition , James Kouzes and Barry Posner say: "To act with integrity, you must first know who you are. You must know what you stand for, what you believe in. and what you care most about. Clarity of values will give you the confidence to make tough decisions, to act with determination, and to take charge of your life."

That may sound logical, but how can you clarify what you value? Stephen Covey wrote about finding your voice in his book The 8TH Habit: From Effectiveness To Greatness. He posted a blog on how to do it. 

Based on many things I have read, here are my 10 questions for you to answer to find your voice..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 8 April 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).