Wednesday, 14 November 2012

3i Core

What measures, determinants, attributes - call them what you will - do people use to evaluate our performance as a 3i Leader. 

When I am looking to buy products or services I consciously (and I guess sub-consciously) go through a 'feel good' check list to help me judge whether I feel secure in proceeding to complete the transaction - or instead, decide to say ''thanks - but no thanks''.

In reality 3i Leaders are providing a service.  Our reputation as a leader with absolute integrity, our ability to inspire and have an impact is being observed and assessed both consciously and subconsciously by fellow co-workers, business partners, family members and our neighbours.  Other peoples' assessment of us against their 'feel good' check list is continuous.

Based upon my own research and through personal experience and observation I consider that the core set of 'feel good' evaluation measures people are most likely to use in assessing our performance as a 3i Leader are as follows:-

  • Competence: possessing sufficient skill, knowledge and expertise for people to feel safe and secure and choose to seek out and rely upon our 3i Leadership;
  • Consistency: being totally dependable, reliable and alert time after time, responding promptly and effectively to the demands placed upon us as 3i Leaders;
  • Credibility: being totally trustworthy, honest, acting with the utmost confidentiality, capable of being believed.
Therefore the 3i Leader needs to routinely and regularly reassess their own individual performance against the 3i Core - Competence, Consistency and Credibility - and take remedial action as appropriate and necessary to maintain the highest standards of performance. 

The 3i Leader's reputation of absolute integrity, their ability to inspire, have an impact and leave a lasting legacy for the benefit of their families, communities, businesses and the wider world will be seriously and possibly irrevocably damaged by achieving anything other than excellence in the eyes of those benchmarking them against the 3i Core.

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