Title: 5 Ways A Legacy-Driven Mindset Will Define Your Leadership
Headings: 5 Ways A Legacy-Driven Mindset Will Define Your Leadership
5 Ways A Legacy-Driven Mindset Will Define Your Leadership
1. Identity and Values
2. Guiding Foundational Principles
3. Courage and Risk-Taking
4. Genuine Care to Advance Others
5. Responsibility and Accountability

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It surprises me how many leaders don’t spend enough time thinking about their legacy – what they will leave behind for the organization and the people they serve. Webster’s dictionary defines legacy as, “anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor.” Legacy is not bound by age or time served. Legacy represents your body of work at each stage of your career as you establish the foundational building blocks and accumulate the required wisdom to contribute to growth, innovation and opportunity both in and outside of the workplace. Your legacy grows with each new experience, with each previously untested idea and bold ideal that you are courageous enough to deploy, and each time you inspire others to see something through to fruition. For many, leaving a legacy is associated with the end rather than the beginning or the next phase in one’s career. Your leadership is not shaped and your legacy is not defined at the end of the road but rather by the moments shared, the decisions made, the actions taken, and even the mistakes overcome throughout the many phases of your career. Leadership done rightly is a reinvention process – a continuous discovery that informs your mindset, new skill sets and aptitudes. At each stage of your career, you learn how to keep creating sustainable impact and influence. With each step you take, you will identify new ways of mastering the fundamentals, which in turn provides you with greater clarity and depth of thought to further improve your leadership approach and communication style.