Expressing Values

The leadership traits that one identifies are meant to help a person in behaving with certain clear values: self-respect, respect of others, patience, understanding, honesty, humility, listening, and cooperative compassion. The following four goals for the behavior of both leaders and followers include the exercise of all the values named.

A leader whether on a global or local level will likely be most successful when practicing the following four behaviors:

1. A capacity/skill to interpret a given situation with compassion and understanding of persons and differing perspectives

2. Nondefensive learning involving emotional intelligence and critical thinking

3. Nonviolence - an ability to know the practical alternatives to psychological, emotional, structural, or physical violence

4. An awareness of what leadership traits are most natural to one’s own personality and a willingness to create a team to provide balanced leadership

Articles to inform each of the above four areas:

• Education About the “Other”

• U. N. Leader Kofi Annan on the Holocaust

• Alleviating Poverty

• Leading on Community College Campuses

• Teaching Comparative Religions