Simple Steps To Leading With Integrity And How To Be A Better Leader

There are many different kinds of leadership styles that can be effective, but regardless of your style, if you are looking to be a better leader, you need to be leading with integrity. People follow people that they can believe in and that they feel like they know, like, and trust. You may be able to get by for a little while if you do things without integrity, but if you want to be a leader for the long term, you need to lead with integrity.

Leading with Integrity is a key factor you should be focused on

Leading with integrity is a crucial skill you should be implementing yourself and teaching your team. The best definition of integrity I’ve found is doing the thing you said you were going to do after the feeling you said it in has passed.

What does this mean, well it means leaders don’t always feel like stepping up and taking charge or making a difference but they do it anyway. They stick to their word and hold up their promises and give back to their team.

As the leader, you don’t always feel like answering your teams calls, or doing presentations, or doing training for your team. When leading with integrity you should always focus on giving back to your team. Be a valuable resource for your new members and be available for coaching and mentoring them.

Lead yourself first before you can lead anyone else

Another key to being a better leader is focusing on being a leader for yourself first. This sounds a bit odd, but basically this means that you need to be self-discipline yourself and lead yourself before you can expect to lead anyone else.

A foundation to this and leading with integrity is to ask yourself if my whole organization did what I did today, where would we be at? If you sat around all day and did nothing, or got sucked into management mode and weren’t productive, likely nothing happened. If your entire organization did that, you likely aren’t doing too well.

Set the daily habits of a leader. Successful people and leaders create habits that build their goals and dreams. Be disciplined yourself and do what you say you were going to do when you said you were going to do it.

How to be a better leader starts with leading by example

People don’t want to follow a “leader” who sits back and barks orders but never is down in the trenches with their team. That’s one reason leaders in network marketing are great because everyone starts on an even playing field. You have to put the work in, and build up a team, and lead that team, and develop other leaders in your organization.

You don’t need to already have massive success to work on your leadership development. When you are leading by example, even if no one is in your team, or maybe just one or two people you are leading with integrity. If you can’t lead with only a small organization you will never be able to lead and direct a large one.

Focus on finding leadership development coaching for yourself and give back what you have learned to your team as well. You have value you can bring to your organization, even if you have only been around a little longer, you have experience and knowledge that can benefit your growing team.

Create a habit of personal development to improve your leadership skills

One aspect of leadership development you should focus on is to continually invest back into yourself and your personal growth. The more you grow as a leader the more your organization will grow.

Having the daily discipline to work on yourself will help to develop yourself into the leader you need to be to lead a large organization. This is part of leading with integrity as well.

Think about it, if you had a team of leaders would they still look up to you if you were no longer growing and learning? If they all knew more and did more than you, would they respect you? Likely they wouldn’t.

This is why it’s important to continue to master your leadership skills. One of the best ways I’ve found to do that is through daily reading or listening to audio personal development every day.

Audible makes this super easy, they have thousands of books you can simply download to your phone and listen to them while doing other things. It can turn unproductive time into productive time and help you become a better leader. Check out getting Audible for free here.

You might also want to check out my post on Top 4 Personal Development Books – Books That Will Change Your Life And Business.

Is what you are doing behind the scenes leading with integrity?

Imagine waking up to the morning news and seeing your weekend shenanigans being broadcast to the world. Would you be happy with that?

If the answer is no, you might want to re-evaluate if you are being a leader that leads with integrity. Certainly this doesn’t mean you can’t have fun in your life, but if you are frequently doing things that you wouldn’t want your organization or the general public knowing you did, you might need to make some changes.

People aren’t going to want to follow a “leader” who gets drunk all the time or is an unethical person. So if you wouldn’t want the whole world knowing what you’re up to, you might need to make some different decisions.

Selling with integrity is crucial to being a leader as well

This part isn’t talked about as much, but the whole sales process should be another thing you as a leader do with integrity. Becoming a better leader starts with how people see you throughout the entire sales process.

Sure it’s important to be a good leader when someone is on your team, but if they never get to that point it won’t matter. If you are doing some shady sales tactics they won’t ever join your organization.

This means that integrity as a leader begins with prospecting and selling your products or business. That means you need to get out of the mode of “how can you sell this person” and get into the mindset of “how can you help this person.”

When you make this shift people will understand that you are there to help them and not just “get them.” Nothing is worse than the feeling that “you got, got” as they say. (Always Sunny anyone?)

But in all seriousness, you don’t want to be misleading or trying to sell at any cost, because it just pushes people away from you and your business. If you teach that kind of thing, you won’t have a team of leaders, you’ll have a team of scammers.

That’s kind of behavior is what gives sales and network marketing a bad name. If you are just getting started in your business be sure to check out this post as well => How to get started in network marketing: 5 network marketing basics you need to know.

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