Did you know that your moral compass plays a huge role in your professional life? In this week's episode of the Unconventional Leadership Podcast, Kimberly Luse shares the importance of knowing your moral compass. It's vital to know where your value system lies, and how to honor it in your workplace. As leaders, we have to lead by example by walking according to our own moral compasses. The first step to living a moral life is defining what morality looks like to you. You may be able to finish the sentence, but tune in to learn how to start it!

Find Kimberly Luse Online at: https://www.strategicethicalsolutions.com/

Quotes from the Episode:

If you don't know where your moral compass lies, if you're trying to figure that out under duress, it can be very complex and maybe not get you where you need to go.

People will get to the end of the sentence pretty easily, but that elusive first part is where your moral compass lies. What is the core thing, whether it's professional or personal, and lots of times they overlap, where you know that if you get out of alignment with that, you're going to be frustrated and not productive.

What we're trying to find is that place where, if you cross that boundary within yourself, you're not going to be able to sleep at night.

We're always struggling with how do we act and behave towards others, but it's also how do you allow people to treat you?

People become terrified that if they speak up, they may lose their position.

They might make decisions based on the fear that they are going to be somehow harmed: their reputation, their livelihood, or their ability to support themselves and their families.

You can't possibly have all the answers. That's why you put good people around you that you trust.

I don't know what to do right now, but together we'll be stronger to figure it out.

If you're in business and you're executing any type of plan or strategy, no plan or strategy ever got accomplished without people.

We are not built to have the foot on the gas all the time in a heightened state of stress, worried sick about what the next day's going to bring.

Be the example of what's really going on in life.

It is the definition of being strong enough to stand in your value system, that you have to have done the work to know what that is, to know why you're behaving the way that you do.

Be vulnerable enough to stand up and say, I've done this work. I value that time. I want you to take time to take care of yourself. We are going to approach each other with a trauma-informed lens. We are going to make sure that we set the example that we are not going to violate one another.


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Resources:
Brenda Corbett and Jennifer Chloupek "Why It Matters, the Sherpa Guide to What You Are Looking For"
Scott Eblin "Overworked and Overwhelmed the Mindfulness Alternative"
Kimberly Luse "Losing Your Job Without Losing Your Mind"

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