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Ethical Leadership
Introduction:
The definition of Ethical leadership is knowing your core values and having the courage to live them in all parts of your life in service of the common good.
Below are some reflections questions to ask on your personal journey toward ethical leadership:
• Will you be the same person at work? At home? In the community?
• Will you have the courage to live out your values when there is pressure to compromise or rationalize?
• How do your values contribute to the common good?
Description:
At the Center for Ethical Leadership we have found that people who want to become leaders who make a difference need to embrace an inner journey of integrity and make an outer commitment to the common good. Our leadership development approach begins with this inner journey. Individuals discover and claim their core values, develop a vision for how the world could be different, find their personal voice for expressing their vision.

They then move to an outer commitment of living and behaving in ways that serve the community and advance the common good. They ask, “Leadership for what purpose?” The ultimate purpose of leadership is to shape a future that is visionary,
inclusive, and enables all members of society to fulfill their needs, dreams and potentials.

• Values. Ethical leadership begins with an understanding of and commitment to our individual core values. By first discovering the values at the core of our identities, we begin the process of integrating our unique values with our choice-making on all levels of our personal and civic lives.
• Vision. Vision is the ability to frame our actions – particularly in service to others – within a real picture of what ought to be.
• Voice. Claiming our voice is the process of articulating our vision to others in an authentic and convincing way that animates and motivates them to action.
• Virtue. Understanding that we become what we practice, we foster virtue by...