Richard Milligan explains why leaders need crystal-clear personal values before they can assess whether their team aligns with them. Without that clarity, you can't gauge employee alignment, which leads to high turnover. The Attractive Leader framework combines vision, articulated values, and consistent behavior.
On certain parts of this, one of the things that you have to ask as a hard question is, am I aligned with my current leadership? Now, if you're a leader listening to this right now, one of the important things that you need to bring to your team is this: you need to help them understand that they are aligned with you. So, 2 parts to that. The first part of it is understanding their values. If you don't understand their values, how are you going to create alignment with your own values? And if you're not clear on your values, then you start there, right? How am I going to understand if someone's clear, if someone's aligned with my values, if I'm not even clear with my values, what my value is? So in my coaching, where we typically start with a leader, is we start with this attractive leader framework. And you've heard me use that terminology before, right? The attractive leader has a clear vision, can— has these clear core values, they can articulate around those, they're so clear, and they're living and acting in alignment with those. So as a leader, if I'm not really truly understanding what my values are and what the value of the person that works for me, with me, partners with me in this business, If I don't understand their values, how in the world are they going to be aligned? How in the world are they going to ever see alignment? And so where we see high attrition, high churn rates within our organization, what we typically are able to point a straight arrow, straight line to is a lack of clarity in what a leader represents.
